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Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores

doener — Sun, 03 May 2026 01:24:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/business/surveillance-pricing-groceries-maryland.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992349

Points: 238

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Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores

01-_- — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:50:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/maryland-grocery-stores-ban-surveillance-pricing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951007

Points: 339

# Comments: 205

Grocyy – AI receipt scanner that tracks grocery spending by item, not just total

Devanship1 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:04:47 +0000

Article URL: https://grocyy.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47930047

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Maryland to become first state to ban 'dynamic pricing' in grocery stores

jonbaer — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:42:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/maryland-become-first-state-ban-150854726.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867579

Points: 66

# Comments: 12

Public grocery stores are having a moment. Can they make food more affordable?

Teever — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:13:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/public-grocery-stores-9.7168321

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822929

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Mamdani Plans to Open City-Owned Grocery Store in East Harlem

paulpauper — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:21:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/nyregion/mamdani-city-owned-grocery-store-la-marqueta.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47770960

Points: 12

# Comments: 5

NYC to open municipal grocery store in 2027

DarkContinent — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:09:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.grocerydive.com/news/new-york-city-owned-grocery-store-manhattan-mamdani/817381/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768337

Points: 59

# Comments: 180

Show HN: I built an app for comparing grocery prices across UK supermarkets

poppet1208 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:26:52 +0000

I'm a first year CS student at Sheffield and built this over the past year because I thought I could do better than Trolley.

Stack: React Native & Typesense for vector search and filtering. An ETL pipeline runs in the background handling scraping and automatic product categorisation using embeddings.

Covers Aldi, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons, Waitrose, Iceland, Ocado / M&S and Co-op. Clubcard and Nectar prices included. Sort by price per unit, filter by category and stores near you.

This was fun to make, and I have a lot planned, with some WIP:

- Basket Generation based on entering a shopping list and getting cheapest products for each store, and cheapest collection of stores for the cheapest total shop. Feels quite magical even in dev mode right now

- Local price estimates. Local stores differ from online prices by up to 20% depending on store fascia. I'm thinking to record a basket of goods for each local store and use it to estimate local prices

- Crowdsourced prices. Tricky one, due to running from a cold start. Would be very useful for certain stores without online prices, eg. Lidl.

That's all for now! Hopefully it'll help me get an internship even without traction ^_^

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659503

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

FoodPilot – weekly meal planner that pulls in Canada local grocery deals

cedricyul — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:37:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.foodpilot.ai/index-en.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490163

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Confirmation: A Canadian Grocery Store and the Failure of Privacy Law

AliceBoghain — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:54:06 +0000

Article URL: https://civicmag.substack.com/p/confirmation-a-grocery-store-and

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264876

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

We Uncovered the Scheme Keeping Grocery Prices High [video]

dataflow — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:09:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odhVF_xLIQA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026439

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

NYC gets its first 'free grocery store'

SunshineTheCat — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:49:13 +0000

Article URL: https://nypost.com/2026/02/12/us-news/nyc-gets-its-first-free-grocery-store-but-its-not-what-mamdani-had-in-mind/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005485

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Polymarket's Free Grocery Store

koolba — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:07:22 +0000

Article URL: https://unherd.com/newsroom/inside-polymarkets-free-public-grocery-store/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005002

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Snapfridge–vision-based grocery assistant built with Lovable and Gemini

lmangiag — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:39:42 +0000

Hi HN, I noticed that me and my wife were spending time every week to plan meals and prepare the shopping list. I thought this could be a great application for an AI agent.

I realized there was a cold start problem so I added a functionality to start from a fridge photo.

You can try the app without registering, but the agent can keep track of preferences of the user of registered.

I built this MVP using Lovable. As a dev, I wanted to see how far I could push "AI-assisted development" for a full-stack PWA. It allowed me to skip the boilerplate and focus entirely on the prompt-engineering for the Gemini vision logic and the Supabase integration. I was skeptical about "generated code," but the speed at which I could iterate on the UI while maintaining a clean React/Supabase architecture was a game-changer for this specific project.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958380

Points: 2

# Comments: 0