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Hey everyone!
The goal with this (and the other newer sites) is to have resources and pages available beyond just the forum. Similar to what we have at BYC.
Eventually we'll build out more custom page support and ideas, but right now I want to run something else by you:
While shopping, my wife will go to the store... let's say for cheese. She'll look at all the cheddar cheeses and compare relative prices per ounce or pound and will try to go for the best value.
Here's the rub: This relative pricing is problematic because you're looking at one store at one point in time. My mom, with 60 years of shopping experience and a "Depression Era" training knows instantly what a good price is for something, but someone like my wife may not be as tuned in to knowing generally what a "good price" is for something.
There may be services out there that already do this (none that I could find) but I thought it would be so cool if my wife could go to a website and keep track of prices per oz, lb, piece, whatever. That data could be shared with others as a big pool of historical statistic data.
Example: Let's say shes's going to go out to buy a specific type of cheese. She checks the site and finds that a good price for cheese (statistically across our geo-area) is $1.89 / lb. She goes to the store and finds a ton of sales on cheese, but the lowest price is $2.66 / lb. She then knows she should either wait for a sale, or find a diff. store.
So, what do y'all think? Is there something like this out there already? Would a tool like this be usevful to you / a good addition to the site?
The goal with this (and the other newer sites) is to have resources and pages available beyond just the forum. Similar to what we have at BYC.
Eventually we'll build out more custom page support and ideas, but right now I want to run something else by you:
While shopping, my wife will go to the store... let's say for cheese. She'll look at all the cheddar cheeses and compare relative prices per ounce or pound and will try to go for the best value.
Here's the rub: This relative pricing is problematic because you're looking at one store at one point in time. My mom, with 60 years of shopping experience and a "Depression Era" training knows instantly what a good price is for something, but someone like my wife may not be as tuned in to knowing generally what a "good price" is for something.
There may be services out there that already do this (none that I could find) but I thought it would be so cool if my wife could go to a website and keep track of prices per oz, lb, piece, whatever. That data could be shared with others as a big pool of historical statistic data.
Example: Let's say shes's going to go out to buy a specific type of cheese. She checks the site and finds that a good price for cheese (statistically across our geo-area) is $1.89 / lb. She goes to the store and finds a ton of sales on cheese, but the lowest price is $2.66 / lb. She then knows she should either wait for a sale, or find a diff. store.
So, what do y'all think? Is there something like this out there already? Would a tool like this be usevful to you / a good addition to the site?
