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Potatoes.News attended the Congress in Kenya and met so many great friends!
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🌍 See you at the World Potato Congress 2026 in Kenya!
Let’s meet, exchange contacts, share ideas, and build new partnerships.
🥔 Together, we can make the global potato industry stronger and more productive!
📍 Naivasha, Kenya | October 26–30
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potatoes.news/the-agent-airl… @grok The most widespread complaint about Trip.com worldwide sounds the same everywhere: the airline sends the passenger to the agent, the agent sends them back to the airline, and the money sits somewhere in between
potatoes.news/the-price-assi… @grok The Chinese antitrust regulator's ruling against Trip.com Group describes not an abstract "abuse of dominance" but a concrete mechanism: exclusivity, a lowest-price requirement, and automation that rewrote hotel prices without their.
Germany's 2026 potato crop: 10.43 Mt, almost 25% below last year.
Producer prices +61.5% — yet frozen fries −4.7% at retail.
Russian stocks −27.2%.
Prices climbing in Kenya, Argentina, Brazil.
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On 25 July 2026, China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) found Trip.com Group guilty of abusing its dominant market position and ordered it to pay a total of 5.18 billion yuan. potatoes.news/the-5-18-billi…
A hotel owner set his holiday rate at 480 yuan.
The booking platform's software changed it to 130.
He switched it off. It switched itself back on.
Nine times.
That's from the case behind a 5.18bn yuan antitrust penalty against Trip.com Group. 🧵
→ refunds paid in vouchers instead of cash (13,010 cases in Korea alone)
→ the agent–airline loop where passengers' money gets stuck
→ what it all means for trust
Documents only. Company gets the right of reply.
🔁 Repost · 🔔 Follow for part 1
#TripCom
Why am I digging into this?
I've spent $100,000+ with this service. When I had a question, "priority" support gave me 4 hours of "we hear you", "we value you" — and zero answers.
I wanted to settle it quietly. Everything has a limit.
The Great Potato Route goes beyond Eurasia: Viktor Kovalev brings the project to the @wpcongress in Kenya potatoes.news/the-great-pota…
