• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    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

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      2 months 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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        2 months 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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          2 months 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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          2 months 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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            2 months 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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      2 months 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.