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Errol Schweizer
Personal blog · grocerynerd.substack.comeconomicsbusiness
Errol Schweizer writes The Checkout Grocery Update, a personal blog at grocerynerd.substack.com about economics and business. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this Substack for its posts on grocery pricing and rent extraction, and on the proposed NYC municipal grocery store. One commenter points to it as a longer treatment than a comment allows.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Essential Take on the $1 trillion U.S. Grocery Industry.
Most-linked posts?
- /p/grocery-update-17-how-grocery-cartels2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-30
What Hacker News says?
Physical goods are being converted into a rent extraction system too. https://grocerynerd.substack.com/p/grocery-update-17-how-gro... https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-s...
Comment linking /p/grocery-update-17-how-grocery-cartels
on “Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane”Submitted Why High Food Prices Will Make Public Groceries Inevitable as a story · 13 points
HN discussionToo much to write in a HN comment so here is a substack post (1) probably worthy of its own HN post. And how is that the obvious solution? You see who is in the Whitehouse and you think this is a champion of antitrust and lifting up the little man? Quite the opposite. NYC government is a separate entity than federal government with different limits to its powers. They can't do anything about cartel behavior. They ca…
Comment linking /p/grocery-update-17-how-grocery-cartels
on “NYC to open municipal grocery store in 2027”