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Or great action show with plot^TM and nice soundrack.

... was that intentional, or...?

It's the across the street bit that causes it. Shops on different sides of the roads get different amounts of customers at different times of the day and whatnot -- which side of the road they're on has a fairly significant effect on who walks in the door. It's not just competition (in fact, it often isn't competition -- it's incredibly far from uncommon for stores like that to have "understandings" in regards to pricing) that has businesses do that. They're just trying to milk the most out of the customer base they can.

The telling bit is that both stores tend to stay open. If there was substantial competitiveness going on, you'd expect one or the other to go out of business, eventually, but you usually see arrangements like that last fairly indefinitely, in my experience.

No, they pretty much think of that guy, too. The shapeshifting and pregnancy and whatnot really goes places. They do kinda' bundle it up with DC's Loki for convenient buggering targets, but there's still a lot of nods to the actual myths... usually.

Honestly, the oddest thing about that blurb to me is it was an actual princess. Well, maybe. Loki going for something female is underrepresented these days, though.

The California gates open.

That... that sounds entirely too much like an oblique reference to goatse, or something of that nature.

Forum being the forum, it must be 1.

Not sure who sasha grey is, but while we're not to the point of sasha grey in a spitroast, we're getting close to it. Pretty fucked, really, though a fair amount of it isn't necessarily the laws themselves but how enforcement agencies fuck the laws to fuck with protesters.

FakeE: Looking up who SG is, SG in a spitroast is now mentally noted as an apt descriptor.

But heard that in the US, the supermarkets are much cheaper because of economy of scale.

Oh, it's not just economy of scale. Several of the larger chains -- Walmart's infamous for it, ferex -- are known for willfully running at a loss (either store wide, or on specific lower priced stuff like food -- the loss leader bit you mentioned) for a year or more after opening specifically to drive down prices in the local area and put smaller stores out of business/make it so they can't be competitive. They manage this by, well, putting competition out of business (/marginalizing them as an alternative) in other areas and using profit from those places to suck up the minor loss they incur wrecking the market in the local one. It's predatory as fuck, but it also, quite unfortunately, does tend to give them the best prices and often by a pretty significant margin -- which is a tremendous advantage in lower income areas where customers might not actually have a notable choice in the matter.

Anyway, filled out th'survey for yeh. Hope it helps, ha. I've long kinda' idly considered some kind of website that does exactly what you're trying to do, so best of luck getting your app off the ground and spread around. Something like what you're doing would be a tremendous aid to low income families that can get access to it.

Incidentally, if you and the folks you're working with get the chance and are allowed, definitely make sure there's a non-handheld option of some sort -- something folks can use off a library computer. Like I said, something like what you're working on would be an absolutely incredible budgetary aid for low income families and individuals for whom groceries and whatnot are a significant portion of their budget, and they often don't have the resources to have and maintain an android or whatev'.