The http://grocerychoice.com.au site has had it's funding withdrawn because the supermarkets would not share their pricing information with them.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/26/2609889.htm

This is public information that anyone can access by walking into any of their stores and sharing this information with http://grocerychoice.com.au is in the public interest.

Lots of people have been bouncing around the idea of using mobile and social media for crowd sourcing this info for quite a while now.  After much discussion we now have a plan for a crowd sourced Price Check application.

If you would like to participate then join this group and follow @price_check on twitter.  Also please retweet and email this link to everyone you know.

Open Data is in everyone's interest!

Possible outcomes in order of preference:

1. The supermarkets decide to play fair and provide the data
2. Flashmobs put pressure on the supermarkets who then decide to play fair and provide the data
3. The data is crowd sourced using mobile phone and web applications
4. The status quo persists [least preferred]