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davemcwish
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| Dodgy wrote: | This is already available, albeit implemented differently. Just install the Tesco Finder app. You type in the products you want while at home during the week (as you run out of them for instance), store them in a shopping list. You've already told the app where your nearest Tesco is, so the app knows the layout of the store. Then the app re-orders all your items by aisle and you get full instructions on how to find that bottle of wine for instance - Aisle 22, 5th rack along, 3 shelves up.
It's easy!
Can't see the point in upping the tech if it already works. |
It might work for Dodgy but if you look at the comments on iTunes and/or ask me, the "Tesco Finder for iPhone" is dreadful.
I installed the app, selected my local store, which incidentally is the same one running the Android trial, asked it to find 'milk' and was told there are no available products containing the work 'milk'.
TESCO may well be able to have a slick operation that extracts a large proportion of UK spending but they don't appear to know how to write a consumer app. |
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Dodgy
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| Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 8:57 am Post subject: |
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| Something weird going on there then, it works for me very well. The only time I've had a problem is when the store has overhauled its storage and moved things around, it takes a week or so for the changes of item locations synch up with the app. |
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MaskellMan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:38 am Post subject: Re: trolley Dash |
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| Pirate3000 wrote: | Why not iphone users????
this tesco is my local and already is using a trial of the use of diy scanner shopping.
I would love to trial this and see just how good it is...
Sad maybe? |
There is already an iPhone app which tells you where in a store an individual item is (aisle, location in aisle, shelf) as well as price and availability. Worked well for me when I was looking for something |
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MaFt
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| Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:40 am Post subject: Re: trolley Dash |
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| MaskellMan wrote: | | Pirate3000 wrote: | Why not iphone users????
this tesco is my local and already is using a trial of the use of diy scanner shopping.
I would love to trial this and see just how good it is...
Sad maybe? |
There is already an iPhone app which tells you where in a store an individual item is (aisle, location in aisle, shelf) as well as price and availability. Worked well for me when I was looking for something |
But does it show you where in the store you already are? And order your shopping list into the shortest route?
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BigPerk
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Quote from start of thread: | Quote: | | Nick Lansley, Head of Research and Development at Tesco.com, says: “The new service is able to show you where all your wanted products are on a store map, show you where you are on that map, and guide you round the store to pick up your products using the shortest route.” |
Mind you I bet it'll have a few crafty diversions past the 'clearance/can't get rid of' shelves  !
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Dodgy
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| Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:13 am Post subject: Re: trolley Dash |
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| MaFt wrote: | | MaskellMan wrote: | | Pirate3000 wrote: | Why not iphone users????
this tesco is my local and already is using a trial of the use of diy scanner shopping.
I would love to trial this and see just how good it is...
Sad maybe? |
There is already an iPhone app which tells you where in a store an individual item is (aisle, location in aisle, shelf) as well as price and availability. Worked well for me when I was looking for something |
But does it show you where in the store you already are? And order your shopping list into the shortest route?
MaFt |
Like I said further up the thread.
Tesco stores have numbered aisles, the app orders your shopping list so you go through the store in a logical aisle by aisle way. So it won't send you to aisle 25 for beer, then back to 1 for fruit then back to 24 for peanuts.
You already know where you are, you look up and it says Aisle (x). You don't need a gadget to tell you that.
If anyone can't understand a simple aisle numbering scheme, they probably wouldn't be able to use a phone anyway. |
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MaFt
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| Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:40 am Post subject: Re: trolley Dash |
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| Dodgy (albeit slightly edited to make a point) wrote: | | If anyone can't understand a simple road numbering scheme, they probably wouldn't be able to use a satnav anyway. |
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Dodgy
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| Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:45 am Post subject: Re: trolley Dash |
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| MaFt wrote: | | Dodgy (albeit slightly edited to make a point) wrote: | | If anyone can't understand a simple road numbering scheme, they probably wouldn't be able to use a satnav anyway. |
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You're seriously trying to suggest that a store laid out in a logical matrix with numbers is anything like as problematic to navigate as a road network?
Roads have bends, they have sub-roads coming from them, they have names a lot of the time.
Supermarkets have aisles, with consecutive numbers, you can see the boundary and extent of the store using visual clues such as walls  . Supermarkets are more like US city layouts in a way  |
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Dodgy
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| Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:53 am Post subject: |
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Here's a couple of pictures to illustrate the already available free app. This is a shopping list I created a while back (the ticks denote that I've bought the items)
And if you need detailed info for where an item is, just click on any of them and you get this screen.
I don't think anything could be much easier. Why not try it, as I said above, I've had problems when the store have re-organised the layout, but it fixes itself pretty soon. |
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