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KerryJones | 10 months ago

I like this idea a lot -- feels like there's a lot of room to grow here. Do you have any sort of historical price tracking/alerting?

And/or also curious if there is a way to enter in a list of items I want and for it to calculate which store - in aggregate - is the cheapest.

For instance, people often tell me Costco is much cheaper than alternatives, and for me to compare I have to compile my shopping cart in multiple stores to compare.

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mynameisash|10 months ago

> For instance, people often tell me Costco is much cheaper than alternatives, and for me to compare I have to compile my shopping cart in multiple stores to compare.

A few years ago, I was very diligently tracking _all_ my family's grocery purchases. I kept every receipt, entered it into a spreadsheet, added categories (eg, dairy, meat), and calculated a normalized cost per unit (eg, $/gallon for milk, $/dozen eggs).

I learned a lot from that, and I think I saved our family a decent amount of money, but man it was a lot of work.

juxtaposicion|10 months ago

Glad you guys mentioned Costco -- I happen to have written a blog post on exactly that: https://popgot.com/blog/retailer-comparison Surprisingly, Costco does not win most of the time, and especially if you are not brand loyal. Costco has famously low-margins, but it turns out that when you sort by price-per-unit they're ok, but not great.

@mynameisash I'm curious what you learned... maybe I can help more people learn that using Popgot data.

juxtaposicion|10 months ago

I'm so glad you like it!

We have historical price tracking in the database, but haven't exposed it as a product yet. What do you have in mind / what would you use it for?