New app helping Venezuelans find scarce items

[Bacchus4.0]

http://news.yahoo.com/app-helping-venezuelans-scarce-items-204643379.html
....CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Harried Venezuelans who devote hours scouring supermarkets for increasingly scarce food basics and toilet paper have just received some digital help thanks to a young software developer.

A free application for mobile devices written by Jose Augusto Montiel lets people notify one another where flour, sugar, milk, cooking oil and toilet paper are for sale. It has been downloaded more than 12,000 times.

The app, known as Abasteceme, or Supply Me, is Android-based and relies on Google Maps for geolocation. It leverages what is known in the tech world as crowdsourcing, with users notifying one another where a certain product is for sale.

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"People are asking for chicken, butter and soap above all," he said.

[naaman fletcher]

1. Chicken is perishable

We are supposed to believe that these greedy capitalists who will do anything for a buck will lose millions of dollars letting chicken spoil in their warehouses.

[Bacchus4.0]

2. thats what are chavista fanatics want us to believe

I can't help but notice the absence of one in particular. Living the dream like in pre-colombian times and washing clothes by hand?

[naaman fletcher]

3. nah,

probably out for a drive with her car and driver, cruising the local rich neighborhood where Rios Montt's kids live.