[LINK] Grocery Choice website

[Peter Bowditch]

Stil said:

> On 07/08/2008, at 6:48 AM, Sylvano wrote:
> >    I had a look at the federal government's
> >    newly launched grocery choice website:
> >
> >     http://grocerychoice.gov.au/
> >
> > 	[snip]
> >      For example, there is no indication on how
> >      products on price promotion are handled."
> 
> I was told (i.e. hearsay at this stage) that the site has NO provision 
> for 'specials" and is updated once a month. So if that's true, in  
> terms of actually being able to USE it in any meaningful way, it's  
> useless. $13M of taxayers' money down the drain.

Out in the country the radio talkback consensus seems to be that it is 
useless because the Woolworth's and Coles prices are based on metropolitan 
sampling but for the independents like IGA most of the prices come from 
remote stores. It's really handy here in Grenfell (which only has IGA) to 
know that my basket of food would be cheaper if I drove 300+km to 
Liverpool to shop at Coles.

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