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berkes on Sept 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store...

The same in the Netherlands vs Germany. I live on the border. And often German grocery stores have (organic) vegetables, produced in the Netherlands, for much less than these same vegetables cost in the Netherlands.

Part is VAT, which is higher in the Netherlands, but I'm confident most is due to the fact Dutch people will simply pay more than Germans.

fesc on Sept 17, 2023 [–]

But on the other hand it seems that produce is of higher quality in NL on average than in DE.

berkes on Sept 17, 2023 | [–]

How does that explain a price difference? It's the exact same dutch products that are sold in Germany.

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