Setup an alert system so I can be alerted when seasonal items are in stock. I need more lebkuchen.
Show HN: Daily price tracking for Trader Joe's
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#122Trader Joe's sells liquor?? Guess I wouldn't know living in Texas. That's surprised me though.
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks like they're just straight up links, and not referral links. Pretty sure nobody is earning a commission when someone clicks them.
Sorry can't edit it now but you are correct and I wasn't thinking "that" kind of referral :-). Easy to see that interpretation though, will have to remind myself to use "links that reference the product". FWIW cmoog, I think it is pretty cool. I've always felt that good surveillance on retail prices with specific product information (like weight/servings) would be a solid data set for economists and people like me to…
Ahem. Referal. :D
I love the idea of pricing over time. It seems like things jump around in 50 cent increments quite a bit. Would be interesting to graph it. I wonder if you'd be able to gather enough data before TJ's decides to implement better endpoint security, though. Having tried to do something similar with airline website data, they sure can make it challenging.
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#124I would love a directional arrow in the table to indicate prices from day to day.
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#126Trader Joe's sells liquor?? Guess I wouldn't know living in Texas. That's surprised me though.
Why? You can’t sell liquor in a grocery store in Texas?
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#127This is cool, but with the apparently random ordering it's just about impossible to find anything. Add sort buttons? A description of why this ordering is used?
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#128The $1.99 Dijon mustard is the best bang for the buck for Dijon on the US market. Maybe even cheaper than in France.
But where are the cornichons?
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most things that care about that field accept both because so many programmers make that mistake. But you're technically right, the best kind of right.
They make the mistake of spelling it correctly, lol. Silly programmers.
"I don't hire programmers who spell correctly, I hire programmers who misspell consistently!" or how does the old joke go.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry can't edit it now but you are correct and I wasn't thinking "that" kind of referral :-). Easy to see that interpretation though, will have to remind myself to use "links that reference the product". FWIW cmoog, I think it is pretty cool. I've always felt that good surveillance on retail prices with specific product information (like weight/servings) would be a solid data set for economists and people like me to…
Ahem. Referal. :D I love the idea of pricing over time. It seems like things jump around in 50 cent increments quite a bit. Would be interesting to graph it. I wonder if you'd be able to gather enough data before TJ's decides to implement better endpoint security, though. Having tried to do something similar with airline website data, they sure can make it challenging.
My radical hack idea was to start an online newspaper and to contract with the local super markets to run a copy of their weekly insert. Fill the paper with local news and collect price data over time which could be marketed as a product to people who were interested in the data.
The most appealing part of this hack is that the advertisers weren't the customer, they were the product. :-)