[LINK] Grocery Choice website

[Stilgherrian]

On 07/08/2008, at 9:48 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 07:56 AM 7/08/2008, Stilgherrian wrote:
>> o USE it in any meaningful way, it's
>> useless. $13M of taxayers' money down the drain.
>
> Yeah, but we don't know what the $13m pays for -- surely not just a
> website. The grocery basket cost tracking has been done for years by
> someone. Not sure if it was the ACCC or CHOICE or just the TV
> networks. Maybe this is the first cut [Minister: get something on the
> screen so I can launch the report] and as with many systems like
> this, more information will be forth coming as they settle in the
> data collection.
>
> But I agree, the forms should work. I note that it does rely on
> scripts, so make sure you have enabled them on the page.

The $13M figure may also be a furphy. The news articles I've seen  
quote one of the supermarkets as saying that implementing unit pricing  
in their shops would cost $12 to $13M. Maybe someone skimming the  
article conflated the two numbers.

Stil

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