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and then there will be a really popular AI driven phone app that you will use to scan items and find out if you're being ripped off or not
I already have a browser plugin that tells me the price history of everything at Coles. There's one for Woolies too.
Those are some huge price swings for some chocolate in just a couple months time span. Is it common for products to fluctuate so much in price in your area?
Yes. It's like this for close to half the product range at both Coles and Woolworths.
"50% off" I consider to be the normal price. Every price is either doubled or not. There are no "specials".
$6 dollarydoos for fucking timtams?!
Even at $3.60, the supermarkets are pissing on you and telling you it's raining.
What's the name of that plugin?
Coles Trend.
You might need to upgrade your browser 😉
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/coles-trend/
Do you have an App that offers better places to shop?
Good choice of product to care about.
I actually saw Tim Tams on the shelf at a Morrison's in Northern Scotland, and it was cheaper than Coles in Australia. It's absurdly priced here.
I found an industrial sized box of them, and snapped them up. I've been doling them out to some poor ozzies stuck in my neck of the woods for months now. I think the end price was about two dollars a box.
Sigh, no you don't need a fucking AI app to do that.
And you ARE being ripped off if you are dealing with a corporation, whether it's the price, the quality, the quantity, the fine text, ect. You are getting fucked every single time.
So please don't be holding up the line and blocking aisles while your chatbot nanny tells tells you that everything in FUCK-YOU-LOL-MART™ is overpriced. Learn how underscan and shotplift like a normal person.
AI could just be used as a buzzword, so that the movement becomes more popular
Not quite the same thing, but I used an LLM to cobble together a HTML file that allows me to search for products on Coles, Woolies, Aldi and Amazon at the same time in the same window (via frames and a Firefox extension to get around some security settings).
Works a treat when planning our big shops for the week, and has already saved us hundreds of dollars since Jan.