French platform combines carpooling with cross-border price arbitrage in the EU

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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.

>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.

I remember reading about this here years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37532973

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.

There’s an even better way to save money on cigarettes.

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