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Really cool, and gives you POV like you’d get with Uber Surge.
Is this how retailers hedge and make up for losses elsewhere?
I wish we could also know tracked wholesale price.
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I'd love it if Apple (since they appear not to sell data) would provide an anonymized receipt analysis service like this. Huge user base right off the bat.
I wish there was just a standardized receipt sending format that would send your receipt to your pay app once you tap to pay something. Of course, I can only imagine this coming to fruition if it is packed to the brim with tracking and 3rd party dissemination.
* May also enroll you in “helpful” store newsletters and sell your email to every company on your grocery store receipt.
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This caught me completely by surprise. I never would have imagined that a grocery chain, even Trader Joe's, would have a publicly-accessible API endpoint for its current product catalog. I wonder how the author even found the endpoint! Is this at risk of Trader Joe's noticing and moving to require an auth token? I can't imagine the openness being intentional, at least outside that brief period of techno-optimism in t…
Trader Joes just doesn’t really compete on price except for a few loss leaders like milk and eggs. Most people I know who go to TJs treat it as their default store because of the shopping experience. The stores are smaller but well staffed, have a well curated and consistent product selection, and are just more pleasant than other grocery stores.
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Trader Joes just doesn’t really compete on price except for a few loss leaders like milk and eggs. Most people I know who go to TJs treat it as their default store because of the shopping experience. The stores are smaller but well staffed, have a well curated and consistent product selection, and are just more pleasant than other grocery stores.
I don't have any hard data to add, but on the face of it this just seems wrong. Their cheese is famously good-for-price / cheap-for-quality, and I think their fresh produce is very competitive as well.
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iphones dropped in price?
In practical terms, yes. Adjusted for inflation, a modern iPhone costs roughly the same as the ones in prior generations, except now you get a lot more bang for your buck with better battery life, improved camera, etc.
Trader 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?
Do individual stores have any autonomy over their pricing?
A search filter would be helpful
Interesting! I’ve always held on to my grocery receipts for the last 8 years. I took pictures of them but when I moved a box got water damaged so now I only have like the last 3ish years. Is there any open source software that I can use to transfer these receipts into a useful csv? I have an idea for a few interesting data visualizations as I’d often buy the same things every week. Grocery bill went from like $70 to…
I do the same with WholeFoods receipts. The pipeline is: 1. Scan to FTP dir to TIFF 2. Nightly job submits image(s) from the dir to Veryfi (their free tier is enough and they looks like the best for receipts OCR) 3. Save that raw JSON, enhanced JSON (fix occasional mis-attribution for discounts, calculate unit price), and CSV. Filename is a purchase date - correctly extracted by Veryfi. 4. Render with bash + gnuplot.…