Would you update and use a grocery price website?

Question

I have an idea for a grocery price website. Kind of like the cheapest gas in the area site. If you find a low price on a grocery store item you would go to the site and update with the price, store, location, date, if it's on sale, and how long. Then everyone can compare prices and see what's cheapest and where. What do you think? Do they have a site like that?

It's not a way for people to run out and try to get that sale price. It's a way to compare stores and prices overall. If most people bought ground beef at $1.49/lb and you see a sale paper that advertises it "on sale" for $1.99 then it's obviously not on sale. Only buy when you see the average lowest price.

Answer 1

i wouldn't use or update for two reasons:

1. the price difference is usually not that great and prices change often.

2. if the price difference is great, you don't have a great chance at getting the item as it may be sold out by the time you read the site (as opposed to using the circular which comes out in advance so you can plan to catch the big sales)

Answer 2

Eh. It's not a bad idea, but you'd have to sink a _lot_ of work into it yourself before anybody would be interested enough to visit frequently and add to it themselves. Too many places have flyers on-line, I think.

That said, if you were willing to put in the work, it would be very interesting to see what stores were cheapest overall, which had the best discounts when they did run sales, and so on.

I'd add features to let people chat about the groceries rather than just the prices. I would actually read stuff about what the new flavour of such-and-such was like.

And: coupons. There're lots of coupons on-line nowadays; if you kept a collection of same in one place, people would likely go there to print them out before heading to the store. Linking to the manufacturer's page for each product would be a plus, too.

Yikes, what a lot of work. But it could be done, and done well.

Answer 3

Yes, it's a good idea but, you may have competition from the grocers as they have thier own web sites. I look at all of the ones in my local area to make comparisons all the time.
I use http://www.sundaysaver.com
Then I go to Walmart and make them sell it to me for the competetors price if it's better. (clerks hate when you do that but, they're the ones with the low price guarantee)

But it would be fun your way if you could chat and get product comments.

Answer 4

I order my groceries through Tesco online and they give you a running total of items in your basket. They also have price comparisons if you need them. Hope this helps.

Answer 5

I have never seen a site like that but I think it is a great idea. I would post.

Answer 6

Great idea! I would totally use it!!! I certainly haven't seen one like that.