Mentioned on The Next Web, it's an app where you can scan in the barcodes of the products you need for your shopping list. It also has a button for daily bargains but doesn't look like that's functional yet.
I don't have an IPhone but it looks promising. Has anyone tried it out?
Massive product database — and database for aisle and store layout for all the major shopping malls in Australia to make it useful.
Very interesting concept indeed.
Although I think the usefulness will reduce when more people buying their grocery online at places like Woolworths Online or Coles Online.
Or the usefulness could increase if these online stores added an API allowing people to upload their shopping lists from this app straight into the store.
I can't see that happening any time soon though, would prevent the random purchases people otherwise make.
Yes true. Good point. That would be a lot more integration — from scanning to ordering and delivering in a streamline process. Ideally 5 minutes after I scanned a jar of empty peanut butter, Woolies' delivery truck would pull up on my driveway but I think I might be dreaming there :)
I did hear a rumour that Coles was bowing out of the online business.
Imagine if you could use a GPS type device supplied by the supermarket that attached to your trolley and you uploaded/downloaded your shopping list to it.
The upload could be from your PC at home and you have a code that you use in the GPS to pull up your particular list.
Could be used at any store.
Then you just push the trolley around and it beeps when you get to the product you have on your list, maybe even throws up a pic of the item on the screen as well.
Endless possibilities.
They'd stomp that one right down. The longer customers spend searching for what they want, the more impulse buys they tend to make on the way.
I have tried this app and have found it very useful. Although the database isn't huge yet - and so doesn't have all the items I scanned at home - it was very easy to add them to my list. When I typed in the name of some items, they would come up, but it was just that the one I had at home was a different size, so had a different barcode - but you can add notes to it too (so even if I scanned a 100g vegimite, but really wanted a 250g, I could just add that to the notes to remind myself or my husband which one we needed!). And the Sync / share thing is great! Now my husband doesn't ring me in the middle of a meeting asking if I need anything from the shop - because we've synced our shopping lists, so as soon as I add an item on my list on my iPhone, it pops up on his shopping list on his iPod Touch!
I agree that it would be great if I could use it with my online shopping by automatically syncing it, but maybe that's in the works already? It would also be good if when you put in your item it came up if there was a special on a similar item at your local store.
All in all I think its really good - especially for a free app!
That does sound pretty good.
It would require a massive product database to link all of those EAN/APN's to the actual products.
With more development like offering alternatives to the products you scanned if they were not available, really has lots of potential.
also,
http://www.grocerygadgets.com/how-grocery-gadgets-work.aspx