Fuel price task team

ToxicBunny said:
Except prices go up by like 5% when fuel price spikes... never really drops after that.
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Because people don't use the market. They just moan online and buy from their local spar anyway.
 
rietrot said:
Because people don't use the market. They just moan online and buy from their local spar anyway.
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I don't entirely disagree with you... but where would you expect people who live in Suburbs to go to get most of their standard items?

Having to go to 300 different stores would defeat the purpose, and this is the thing that the big super markets rely on...
 
ToxicBunny said:
I don't entirely disagree with you... but where would you expect people who live in Suburbs to go to get most of their standard items?

Having to go to 300 different stores would defeat the purpose, and this is the thing that the big super markets rely on...
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Chance for someone to develop something that tracks the pricing on goods in stores like P&P, spar and the like. You open it up, input your grocery list and it shows you where the items are the cheapest on a given day. Will be a manual **** show I suppose as someone needs to get those prices, but once you have some form of critical mass you can crowdsource it, highly doubting that the retailers have API's exposed to show their pricing - P&P must be doing something with their discount points or similar.

If the prices differ by store in different regions - then, well.. They won I suppose.
 
GhostSixFour said:
Chance for someone to develop something that tracks the pricing on goods in stores like P&P, spar and the like. You open it up, input your grocery list and it shows you where the items are the cheapest on a given day. Will be a manual **** show I suppose as someone needs to get those prices, but once you have some form of critical mass you can crowdsource it, highly doubting that the retailers have API's exposed to show their pricing - P&P must be doing something with their discount points or similar.

If the prices differ by store in different regions - then, well.. They won I suppose.
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Actually, perhaps a OCR type thing based on the sheets that Guzzle already collects could help start it. After that, reward shoppers with "Something" to capture their till slips and OCR those as well.

/spitballing
 
GhostSixFour said:
Chance for someone to develop something that tracks the pricing on goods in stores like P&P, spar and the like. You open it up, input your grocery list and it shows you where the items are the cheapest on a given day. Will be a manual **** show I suppose as someone needs to get those prices, but once you have some form of critical mass you can crowdsource it, highly doubting that the retailers have API's exposed to show their pricing - P&P must be doing something with their discount points or similar.

If the prices differ by store in different regions - then, well.. They won I suppose.
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As far as I understand... the PnP system is a bunch of mystery shopper type people.. not an automated system..

But yes, if our retailers had some system where I could query their database to get pricing then a comparison app would be epic...
 
Drifter said:
A bit more detail on how they are actually going to approach this. What kind of steps do they plan on taking? You know, detail.
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Doubt they know how they're going to approach this yet. They've only announced the whole thing this week. I'm sure once they convene that you will get details on how exactly they're going to approach this.

Unfortunately google only works on news that already happened, not news that is yet to happen. The culture of fake-news got you bro!


On a more serious note. I find it ****ing HILARIOUS that they now have to get a special task force together to help solve a problem THEY created (and to ask retailers to absorb the cost for their overcompensation of petrol price since 2014).

Do none of these "politicians" know that if you do "X" that it would have "Y" results? Play some kind of sim city game before you can become a minister/president ffs...
 
ToxicBunny said:
I don't entirely disagree with you... but where would you expect people who live in Suburbs to go to get most of their standard items?

Having to go to 300 different stores would defeat the purpose, and this is the thing that the big super markets rely on...
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I'll be honest, I cross shop wherever possible between pnp, checkers, game and spar.
 
ToxicBunny said:
As far as I understand... the PnP system is a bunch of mystery shopper type people.. not an automated system..

But yes, if our retailers had some system where I could query their database to get pricing then a comparison app would be epic...
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Figured as much. Need some innovation into the grocery space. First grocery store to incorporate API's into their system that allows developers to expand their offering beyond merely selling milk, I think will do quite well.

Hell, start a series of fuelling stations, have a full grocery store attached, but, allow people to place orders on an app that then gets added to their fuel bill and dropped off at their car when they scan a QR code or something. Who knows. Then allow them to pay for everything using zapper/snapscan.

#killershop

Who has some seeder funding so we can get this going? :)
 
Do none of these "politicians" know that if you do "X" that it would have "Y" results? Play some kind of sim city game before you can become a minister/president ffs...
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Society is a complex feedback network, as such it is beyond the comprehension of politicians. As is the human flaw of putting leaders in charge of them who are stupider than they
 
ArtyLoop said:
Society is a complex feedback network, as such it is beyond the comprehension of politicians. As is the human flaw of putting leaders in charge of them who are stupider than they
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You just need to be the most confident stupid person, the rest will follow. Joe Rogan's stand-up on Netflix ><
 
Ramaphosa goes straight to the oil taps to bring down fuel prices

With intensified pressure from inside his country over the recent successive fuel increases, and another in the pipeline, President Cyril Ramaphosa has consciously taken the unprecedented step of going straight to oil-producing nations to ask them to help ease the burden on the South African consumer brought about by the high price of crude oil.

Government announced that Saudi Arabia has decided to invest what amounts to R133 billion in South Africa’s energy sector due to Ramaphosa’s visit. It’s also clearly no coincidence that Ramaphosa’s latest tour has included the world top two oil producers, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. It reveals part of what his intention is – to negotiate a deal with them to increase their oil production. The president first touched down in Nigeria, then headed to Saudi Arabia and was scheduled to conclude his tour in the UAE.

These countries are leading members of the 14-member Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), which controls 61 percent of world oil exports.

https://citizen-co-za.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1978815/ramaphosa-goes-straight-to-the-oil-taps-to-bring-down-fuel-prices/amp/?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQCCAE%3D#referrer=https://www.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fcitizen.co.za%2Fnews%2Fsouth-africa%2F1978815%2Framaphosa-goes-straight-to-the-oil-taps-to-bring-down-fuel-prices%2F&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fcitizen.co.za%2Fnews%2Fsouth-africa%2F1978815%2Framaphosa-goes-straight-to-the-oil-taps-to-bring-down-fuel-prices%2F
 
Gnome said:
Wow, that is impressive if it is true
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Don't see how he plans to do. I don't think than OPEC countries are allowed to give rebates (I might be wrong but it's against the OPEC's concept).

It would also set a precedent, why SA and not European countries, Japan or China who are much larger customers (the fuel price is also a massive issue in Europe right now)?
 
Heard two high level ANC idiots taking about this at the Codfather in Sandton on Thursday. Apparantly they are busy securing a tender in conjunction with SANRAL to update all Gauteng road infrastructure to reduce fuel consumption. Its a huge engineering feat. First in the world actually. All the SANRAL operated roads will be upgraded to downhills. No more up hills on the highway. Means we can coast in neutral most of the time. Means the cars will use less fuel. Citizens Profit.
 
skeptic_SA said:
Heard two high level ANC idiots taking about this at the Codfather in Sandton on Thursday. Apparantly they are busy securing a tender in conjunction with SANRAL to update all Gauteng road infrastructure to reduce fuel consumption. Its a huge engineering feat. First in the world actually. All the SANRAL operated roads will be upgraded to downhills. No more up hills on the highway. Means we can coast in neutral most of the time. Means the cars will use less fuel. Citizens Profit.
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Why not just invent a perpetual motion engine that turns the wind into enough energy to power the car as you drive
 
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