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Notes on grocery prices in Canada, and on the app that reads them.

• How I built a grocery price comparison for 27 Canadian store chains on a CA$18/month server

  PriceBite is a free Android app that answers one question: where is this grocery item cheapest near me this week. Type "milk", see the same 4 L bag at every store around you, cheapest first. Add your whole list and it…

• Why flyer apps waste your time, and what to do instead

  Every Thursday the flyers land: in the mailbox, in an app, in a browser tab. Canadians spend real time on them, and the time is mostly wasted, because a flyer is not a price list. It is an advertisement that happens to…