Cross-border price differences have been a major point of public debate in Austria recently. Particularly supermarket prices are often up to 50% more expensive for the same item than in neighboring countries, even if the product has been produced in Austria by an Austrian company.
This shows that the EU still has a long way to sufficiently integrate its markets, despite free movement of goods having been established ages ago. Projects like this may help facilitate the transition to a more unified market.
FirmwareBurner•4mo ago
>This shows that the EU still has a long way to sufficiently integrate its markets
Austria's high groceries price problem isn't due to a fault of EU market integration, it's due to the cartels that own the retail sector in Austria and milk consumers for all they're worth.
In other words it's a domestic self inflicted problem, that Austria can solve but chooses not to, not an EU problem.
Only once? This is a discussion topics in Austria every other week. It was bound to make it to HN at least a few times since tech savvy people made platforms to track the data.
The only problem is even with the data in plain sight, government regulators still don't do anything.
more_corn•4mo ago
There’s an even better way to save money on cigarettes.
AndreasHae•4mo ago
This shows that the EU still has a long way to sufficiently integrate its markets, despite free movement of goods having been established ages ago. Projects like this may help facilitate the transition to a more unified market.
FirmwareBurner•4mo ago
Austria's high groceries price problem isn't due to a fault of EU market integration, it's due to the cartels that own the retail sector in Austria and milk consumers for all they're worth.
In other words it's a domestic self inflicted problem, that Austria can solve but chooses not to, not an EU problem.
zote•4mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37532973
FirmwareBurner•4mo ago
The only problem is even with the data in plain sight, government regulators still don't do anything.