[open-economics] Fw: Supermarket Pricing Information Bill

Thu Jan 17 12:54:34 UTC 2013

Actually, it occurs to me that there are bottom-up ways to achieve the
same effect.

In the easiest case, prices are listed on the supermarket websites, and
it's simply a scraping job.

But even aside from that, prices are all recorded on receipts. So what
we would need is:
 a) the ability to scan and OCR receipts, and extract prices for product
codes
 b) some people willing to anonymously send in their receipts
 c) [optional] some mapping between receipt codes and products

I guess mysupermarket already does something along these lines, but they
are in it for their own commercial reasons.

But there must be academic projects that could be conducted on the basis
of shopping price data; it'd be neat if somebody could embark on one,
and get us open(ish) price data as a byproduct.

Dan

On 17/01/13 13:40, Dan wrote:
> 
> This would be very cool! I'm assuming there are minimal chances of it
> becoming law, since it's a private members bill, but great to have it
> even on the table.
> 
> Is the initiative for this coming from John Denham himself, or have ORG
> been actively campaigning for it?
> 
> And does anybody have an idea what would be the most useful way of
> helping move it along?
> 
> Dan
> 
> On 16/01/13 13:53, Javier Ruiz wrote:
>> This may be of interest, not strictly open data yet still useful 
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>  Forwarded message:
>> From: Lee Maguire <lee at openrightsgroup.org>
>> To: Open Rights Group <news at openrightsgroup.org>
>> Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2013 12:41:32
>> Subject: Supermarket Pricing Information Bill
>>
>> Added info regarding a PMB for Open Data law re supermarket pricing.
>>
>> http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Supermarket_Pricing_Information_Bill
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