Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket

nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I already have a browser plugin that tells me the price history of everything at Coles. There’s one for Woolies too.

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  • NannerBanner@literature.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Good choice of product to care about.

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    • pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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      • NannerBanner@literature.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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.

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  • ranzispa@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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?

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    • pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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”.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    $6 dollarydoos for fucking timtams?!

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    • pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Even at $3.60, the supermarkets are pissing on you and telling you it’s raining.

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  • TwilitSky@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do you have an App that offers better places to shop?

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  • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What’s the name of that plugin?

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    • pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Coles Trend.

      You might need to upgrade your browser 😉

      addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/…/coles-trend/

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• bold_atlas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You don’t need a fucking AI app to do that…JFC

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  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sigh, no you don’t need a fucking AI app to do that.

    AI could just be used as a buzzword, so that the movement becomes more popular

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• thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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