GroceryChoice and the BS from the big supermarkets

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From: Jonathan Wilson
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:04

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The big supermarkets are arguing that they dont have the information on 
prices in a digital format that can be sent to GroceryChoice.
Thats a lie, they DO have it in a digital format. Every checkout in every 
woolworths or coles store is linked to a database that matches the name of 
the product (for printing on the screen and on the receipt), the bar code 
and the current price (including any double deals, buy-one-get-one-free 
etc). Really they just need an automated batch process to grab that 
information (those 3 pieces of info) from the database and send it to the 
GroceryChoice servers (they all have communications of some kind to run the 
EFTPOS machines if nothing else so they have communications links that can 
be used to send this info)

The real story is that the big supermarkets dont want people to know which 
of the stores in their local area is the cheapest/best value (since that 
would quite likely result in less profit for the big supermarkets than 
where the people would otherwise go)

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