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by gompertz 640 days ago
There's always a comment like this I find. Some extra layer of data people want to see that explains the first layer, and it never ends - the data on data. Sometimes we just want to know the damn burrito prices and don't care about the excuses.
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If you want to know the burrito price, you open the app/website and look at the burrito price... you don't go to a "Taconomics" website comparing taco prices across a continent. As it stands, there are a number of uncontrolled variables that mean this is not an effective analysis of "How economical is your local Taco Bell?"
> you don't go to a "Taconomics" website comparing taco prices across a continent

but that's what people do, in aggregate. It's why manufacturing all went to china in the last 2 decades.

Maybe you just want to find the cheapest branch in a 10 mile radius.
Yah but if you want to click around on a neat lil web page this is great.
Shift-click to zoom out.
It’s hard to compare prices for 10 nearby Taco Bells in the Taco Bell app. This site makes it quite easy.