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Generic items on shopping list, forced to choose brands
When I'm making a grocery list, I almost never list specific brands. If I put "skim milk" on my list and Grocio forces me to choose a specific brand of milk, doesn't that eliminate other stores? Why can't the list remain generic if no brand is specified? I understand the store ads list brands, but couldn't only the results be shown with the specific store products?
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Inappropriate?Picking a brand is necessary at some point... otherwise how can we pull a price out of the hat?
In the video of the prototype there's a "best price possible" option. That's not yet in the beta.
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Picking a brand depends on the product, at least it does for me. I don't care what brand of milk I buy, as long as it's skim. The same goes for ground beef; brand isn't important, but the lean/fat ratio is. However for laundry detergent and salad dressing I'd usually like to know the brand. Just my 2¢.
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Inappropriate?Fair enough. And, THANKS for the insight into your shopping behavior.
Do you feel a "best price possible" option would work in cases where brand is less important than price? Is there maybe a better option?
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Best price possible would be fine. Would it be possible to have a selection of, for example, "milk, skim, no brand" that would set a flag to look through all brands and then just pick the cheapest one? I'm guessing that our grocery lists are used to search through the item descriptions in the database? The one problem I could see would be descriptions that are different from brand to brand. For example, Joe's Dairy calls his milk "fat-free" while Anna's Dairy calls her milk "skim". I guess that's the problem with free text fields, but I'm sure it makes setting up search strings a nightmare.
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Inappropriate?paa101 - There are free text search challenges and then there are just plain 'equivalents' challenges. Free text is actually pretty easy. It's the presentation of 100's of possible results and making those easy to sift through that we're dealing with right now. "Bread" matches loafs of bread (and bread crumbs and bread dough and bread flour and on and on). It needs to be dead simple to pick the intent. Someone mentioned sorting by popularity which isn't a bad idea.
As for equivalents, you have a situation like BRAND=Oreo but maybe from the shopper's point of view her is PRIORITY=Price. So, when a store's private label doesn't contain the word "Oreo" but they have a Hydrox equivalent... I suspect a lot of consumers who are more price driven than brand driven would want to see the private label cookie as an option too.
We have some known challenges ahead. Some big and some small. We'll solve some of them well. And, we'll have our share of belly flops. No matter what we're going to listen to our shoppers and keep refactoring our applications. When we get it wrong... It's forums like this one, and Twitter and Facebook... where we have our ears turned on.
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