- This Season’s Hottest Shopping Trend: Falling Prices. American shoppers, burned by more than two years of rapid inflation, are getting some welcome relief this holiday season: Prices on many products are falling. “Supply chains have basically normalized.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/business/economy/falling-prices.html 18 comments economy
- Inflation turns products to shit as companies substitute in cheaper ingredients to avoid raising prices: "Giant food companies are quietly ruining your favorite snacks — and hoping you don't notice" https://www.businessinsider.com/inflation-high-prices-costs-making-food-snacks-sodas-worse-quality-2023-12 7 comments goldandblack
- Gas prices have fallen 19% since September, hit lowest point of year ahead of holiday. 12 straight weeks of declines. Gas prices are averaging less than $3 a gallon in more than 20 states right now. Oil prices are falling as record U.S. production collides with a weakening economy in China. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/12/gas-prices-have-fallen-19percent-since-september-hit-lowest-point-of-year-ahead-of-holiday.html 3 comments economy
- Is "free" the right price point for an indie game this short? Or do production values and "atmosphere" justify, say, a $2 tag? https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/cold-war-2395-solus-d87631 8 comments gamedev
- VW exec says high energy prices will kill car battery production in Europe. German car giant Volkswagen may stop investing in battery factories across the bloc if the EU fails to tame energy prices and beef up its industrial policy https://www.politico.eu/article/volkswagen-cars-battery-production-energy-prices-european-union/ 21 comments europe
- The White House is eyeing a ban on exports of US gas to bring down rising prices. The measure would cover US exports of diesel and other refined petroleum products, as well as gas. There have been heated discussions between officials and oil industry bosses over the need to lower gas prices. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/gas-prices-us-white-house-ban-exports-biden-oil-pump-2022-10?amp= 15 comments energy
- Poland’s Azoty stops capro, PA6, nitrogen ferts production on gas pricing | ICIS https://www.icis.com/explore/resources/news/2022/08/23/10798349/poland-s-azoty-stops-capro-pa6-nitrogen-ferts-production-on-gas-pricing/ 4 comments europe
- G7 had positive and productive discussions with China and India about a plan to cap the price of Russian oil, a source familiar with the G7 discussions said on Tuesday, adding the two major oil consumers would have incentives to comply https://finance.yahoo.com/news/g7-discussions-china-india-russian-185708392.html 15 comments worldnews
- OPEC+ alliance boosts oil production as energy prices soar https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-saudi-arabia-middle-east-prices-75b1230a04d5f3ed90d58fbb64db17d3 30 comments worldnews
- Joe Biden Didn’t Do This. Republicans say the White House is responsible for high gas prices. That’s ridiculous. Oil production actually increased through 2021. It’s also false to say the Keystone XL pipeline’s shutdown plays a role here. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/dont-blame-biden-for-gas-prices.html 280 comments energy
- The U.S. Government Doesn’t Control Domestic Oil Production. But It Should. The oil and gas industry won’t increase production because it’s enjoying the profits from high prices. It’s left entirely up to companies to produce as much or as little oil as they think will be profitable. https://theintercept.com/2022/03/11/oil-prices-russia-ban/ 170 comments energy
- “I’ve reduced my Bitcoin exposure to nearly zero. I just don’t see it as a productive asset class anymore. All the brainpower has shifted to Ethereum. Bitcoiners can only talk about charts and price speculation. Feels boring, unproductive and has no economic rationale. Fool’s gold” https://twitter.com/beaniemaxi/status/1439063583405522946?s=21 29 comments btc
- Nearly nine in 10 products sold on Black Friday are available for the same price or cheaper earlier in the year, according to consumer group Which?. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55058121 1278 comments worldnews
- Global pact forged to drastically cut oil production to contain price crash OPEC and other producers agreed to cut 9.7 million barrels a day https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/opec-deal-1.5530381 14 comments politics
- Milk prices could increase by Rs 8-10 in summer due to fall in production, fodder shortage https://theprint.in/india/milk-prices-could-increase-by-rs-8-10-in-summer-due-to-fall-in-production-fodder-shortage/347866/ 6 comments india
- When your stock price is crashing, you don’t start screaming “don’t sell! don’t sell!”. You try to find the reason and come up with ways to improve your product & sales. The blind belief of many crypto people combined with the refusal to look inside is alarming and detrimental. https://twitter.com/olivierjanss/status/1199011284013998081?s=21 16 comments btc
- Cook Says Apple Is ‘Rolling the Dice’ on Future Products, plans to lower Macbook Air price https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-01/cook-says-apple-is-rolling-the-dice-on-future-products 9 comments apple
- 1850's England Stores (Gun and Miscellaneous shops) product prices ? https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/amnwak/1850s_england_stores_gun_and_miscellaneous_shops/ 5 comments history
- Creating a fully custom product - Selecting Options that update the product price https://www.reddit.com/r/shopify/comments/9lrxzl/creating_a_fully_custom_product_selecting_options/ 3 comments shopify
- After Apple Warns China Tariffs Will Increase Prices, Trump Has Solution: Make Products in U.S. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/09/trump-tells-apple-to-move-manufacturing-to-the-united-states-in-order-to-avoid-tariffs.html?via=section_recirc_recent 21 comments politics
- One Product, One Price: Gvot to forbid charging above MRP in airport, cinema halls, shopping malls from 2018 http://www.india.com/business/one-product-one-price-govt-to-forbid-charging-above-mrp-in-airport-cinema-halls-shopping-malls-from-2018-2282749/ 53 comments india
- Here's why new Apple products are usually "too expensive" at launch, followed by a price drop after a year or so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost-plus_pricing 55 comments apple
- How to Price a Software product https://clearbit.com/books/data-driven-sales/the-key-to-saas-pricing 4 comments business
- Venezuela pledges to cut oil production by 4% in effort to "fix markets and oil prices". http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-oil-iduskbn14g1a0 7 comments worldnews
- Oil prices fell early on Monday as Iraq said it wanted to be exempt from any deal by producer cartel OPEC to cut production to prop up the market, and as U.S. drillers stepped up work. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil-iduskcn12o02s?feedtype=rss&feedname=topnews 79 comments worldnews
- AMA Announcement: Redditor who created GrabShack (Search Engine for finding best prices on products across major e-commerce sites) https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/4vqz58/ama_announcement_redditor_who_created_grabshack/ 3 comments india
- Russia Raises Minimum Price for Vodka: The minimum price for vodka has been raised in Russia as part of the government's crackdown on the production of counterfeit alcohol http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/russia-raises-minimum-price-for-vodka/572503.html 16 comments europe
- Climate change is increasing the risk of severe 'food shocks' where crops fail and prices of staples rise rapidly around the world. Researchers say extreme weather events that impact food production could be happening in seven years out of ten by the end of this century. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33910552 3 comments worldnews
- Your Cell Phone Is Killing Your Productivity, But Not for the Reason You Think - "The price we pay for notifications. Even if we don't do anything about them." http://time.com/money/3956968/cell-phone-alert-productivity/?xid=soc_socialflow_facebook_money 12 comments productivity
- Oil prices fell in early trading on Friday, ending a run of rallies earlier in the week, after OPEC said that its output surged in March, adding to a global glut. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said that its March production jumped 810,000 barrels per day (bpd) http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/17/us-markets-oil-iduskbn0n802j20150417?feedtype=rss&feedname=topnews 3 comments worldnews
- In Venezuela alcoholic beverages prices increased by 56% overall in one year. However, in the case of imported products the increase was between 100% and 200% http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/alcoholic-drinks-in-venezuela-euromonitor-international-270835471.html 5 comments worldnews
- "...if Congress fails to approve a new Farm Bill before the end of the year,...the price of milk and all milk-based dairy products like cheese, yogurt and baby formula will spike in coming months...the price changes would not happen right away, but could send milk toward $7 or $8 per gallon." http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/10/milk-cookie-cliff-in-house-gop-hands.html 9 comments politics
- Nepalese farmers go organic with human waste: A free and efficient way to boost production that sells for a higher price http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/04/business/nepal-human-urine-fertilizer/ 4 comments worldnews
- LG's Woeful Comeback Attempt: Price their products like Samsung and hope for the best http://bgr.com/2012/12/19/lg-comeback-failure-analysis-257942/ 10 comments technology
- Costco: A Leader in Corporate Social Responsibility? - You see name tags reading "since 2002," "1999" & "1995". Those working the floor can make mid-$40,000 range & over 80% have competitively priced health insurance plans, resulting in more productive, satisfied workers & low turnover. http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/08/costco-genuine-retail-csr-leader/ 2173 comments politics
- At some point, these top-heavy, protected industries will experience a “stick/slip” event in which their fixed pricing and funding will collapse once the dwindling productive economy can no longer support this enormous dead weight of unproductive friction. http://www.businessinsider.com/the-future-of-work-and-jobs-2011-12 9 comments economy
- Unintended feature allows user to choose the price to pay for product http://0xced.blogspot.com/2008/10/kagi-registration-module-lack-of.html 33 comments programming
- Tesla: "Our second product is a sedan that is about half the price [of the Roadster] and will be produced in late 2010 in 20,000 units a year." http://www.newsweek.com/id/145876 11 comments technology
- Rice prices are set to keep rising as demand for the staple is outstripping production http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7341978.stm?lsm 3 comments worldnews
- Why farmers are opposing ‘pro-farmer’ reforms | While the government claims that these reforms will help farmers in getting a better price for their products, farmers’ groups have been agitating against these changes https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/why-farmers-are-opposing-pro-farmer-reforms/story-ye7n4ht8vg6d8zseb8mczn.html 7 comments india