Basket - Grocery Shopping +4

I used multiple price comparisons apps including Flipp. So far Basket provided the best prices for common groceries. App is easy to use.

One suggestion for the developers is to provide the cheapest product first in given category in the search results. For an example, if search for 2% reduce fat milk, app should give the cheapest option as the first result rather than providing the all the brand of milk. At least, in the search provide the cheapest price so the user can decide to where to get it rather than checking each brand.

I had massive hopes for this app, but it turned out were totally unfounded. I used it to search local stores to build my typical grocery list and I started off at Aldi‘s to buy bananas and a 2 pound bag of onions… bananas were supposed to be $.39 a pound and were actually $.59 a pound… the $2.99 bag of onions was actually $3.95… sprouts supposedly had a sale on strawberries for $1.50 a pound and they were actually $4.98… I asked the produce guy if they had recently been on sale and he said they were three weeks ago but even then they were $2.99 a pound. Publix supposedly had a particular hefty garbage bag for $7.95 and the cheapest hefty bag was $9.99. it was like this throughout every single item on my list. I will be discarding this app and going back to my normal shopping circuit.

I do not know where they are getting their database information, but it is totally not correct. every item I checked, was off anywhere from a few cents to several dollars. I even re-downloaded the app while I was standing in the store hoping maybe I would get an up-to-date price, but it was showing the same incorrect information.

I downloaded the app because I thought it had a great feature where you could define your shopping list and it would find the cheapest place to buy those things. It absolutely does not do this. Unless you were only buying nationally marketed extremely fungible items like Kraft American cheese slices, it never finds two stores offering the same thing, so there is no price comprison unless youLook up different products for each different store individually remember the prices and later think about whether it’s higher or lower when you see another one on a different screen.

Unless you do it one by one multiplied by the amount of stores that you want to consider, you can’t ask what a pound of steak tips is and simply see the various options in a list, and you certainly can’t leave it to crunch your whole shopping list for you.

I suppose you can use this app to relatively quickly decide where to buy one item, but that’s as far as it goes.