> and you would not believe the extent that grocers go to to make price comparison difficult. This thing doesn't make thousands or even hundreds of requests - maybe a few dozen over the course of a day.
It's gonna get even worse. Walmart & Kroger are implementing digital price tags, so whatever you see on the website will probably (purposefully?) be out of date by the time you get to the store.
Originally I was excited to see that kroger had an API, until just about the first thing that the ToS said was "you can't use this for price comparison".
And yea, I imagine dynamic pricing will make things even more complicated.
That being said, that's why this feature isn't built into the billion shopping list apps that are out there. Because it's a pain.
Price comparison should be required by law. In fact, I think it would be interesting for a city to require its major grocers to feed pricing information to a public database.
So you put something in your cart and by the time you reach the cashier the price doubled?
Sounds like someone is about to patent price locking when you add an item to your pysical shopping cart.
It's gonna get even worse. Walmart & Kroger are implementing digital price tags, so whatever you see on the website will probably (purposefully?) be out of date by the time you get to the store.
Stores don't want you to compare.