Newly launched Grocery Price Comparison Site....feedback appreciated!

AssociatedLR2D2 @ grosave.co.nz on 20/05/2024 - 16:19
Last edited 07/04/2025 - 18:26 by 1 other user

Hi we would love feedback in regards to a new launched Grocery price comparison app: Grosave.

The site is: grosave.co.nz(grosave.co.nz)
Can also be found on google playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nz.co.grosave.…

We would love to hear the following feedback!

  1. Whether you would consistently use this app to shop for groceries
  2. How much you are likely to save per week using our app
  3. Any personal annoyances/frustrations
    4.If you have been using Grocer, what do you prefer that our app lacks?

Future features we are going to implement:
1. Ability to select stores

Many thanks for your time!
It really helps us develop something that as many people as possible can enjoy :)

General Discussion

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Comments

  • Redcafej on 25/07/2024 - 11:56

    Search algorithm is quite messy. A simple search term like "Cooking Oil" will yield results like cooking chocolate or cream or cooking wine. It's a long way to go.

    • AssociatedGrosave Support @ grosave.co.nz on 26/07/2024 - 11:20

      Search has been one of our biggest challenges so far. Our team is actively exploring different solutions to make it better. It's a complex issue, but we're committed to improving the search experience for our customers. We appreciate your patience as we work through this.

      • Redcafej on 26/07/2024 - 12:21

        Great efforts so far though, just a long way to go. Might I suggest categories, like on the countdown website. Should be easier to manage that way

        • AssociatedGrosave Support @ grosave.co.nz on 26/07/2024 - 15:51

          Thank you for your kind suggestion. @Redcafej! Yes, specifying the category definitely helps with searching. We have provided a "Filter by Category" option (check the second icon in the search bar to specify or remove categories). We are also working on improving the relevance of the categories.

  • AssociatedGrosave Support @ grosave.co.nz on 07/04/2025 - 17:56
    Merged from Grocery Price Comparison App Grosave…we encourage you to Shop Around

    Those of you may remember our post asking for feedback roughly a year ago for our app Grosave, an app that helps you compare groceries and buy more for less.

    We would like to thank all of you once again for taking the time to give us feedback and check out our site. We are happy to say that your voices have been heard and not a single comment has been ignored. The Grosave you see today is a direct result of your feedback and help.

    Here is what we have achieved in the past year:

    We have added the following NZ-first Features:
    1.Price History
    2.Biggest Price Difference
    3. Price Alerts

    We have made a ton of other changes:
    -show database updated date and time
    -save items as favourites
    -prices have two decimal places
    -sorting of search results by price per unit
    -can now search items directly from within your list
    -increased radius of store selector to be a 20km radius
    -added list view for store selector so can compare as many stores you want all over NZ
    -improved search: search milk gives you milk not something else
    -store your details in the cloud so you can access it on any device
    -compact view for phones
    -no more temu type descriptions
    -page where products are at their lowest at that store (biggest price difference appears on homepage when signing in)
    -display product sizes
    -many many UI improvements (50+)
    -can now add directly to shopping list from search
    -many many performance improvements
    -many many UX improvements (50+)
    -categories for items
    -barcode scanning
    -products now display correct image
    -many many bugs fixes (100+)

    The question now is, what's next?

    What else would you like with the site to make it a site that all NZers will love?

    How can we improve apon our current features?

    P.s. Chemist Warehouse is Coming Soon :)

  • AssociatedGrosave Support @ grosave.co.nz on 07/04/2025 - 17:57

    Letting everyone know that all your feedback has been heard and now incorporated more than a year in :).

    • Dunno on 07/04/2025 - 18:10

      The biggest deals part is fantastic, how often are prices updated

      • AssociatedGrosave Support @ grosave.co.nz on 07/04/2025 - 18:17
        +1

        prices are updated in the morning every day!

      • AssociatedGrosave Support @ grosave.co.nz on 07/04/2025 - 18:19
        +1

        It is still in alpha so we are going to be fixing some pricing errors, if you see any please report it to us! Thank you :)

        • Stoic on 07/04/2025 - 19:21

          Awesome feature.

          Some of the fresh choice pricing in Chch is annoying. Like for Fendalton red chillies are listed as $2.50/kg but the title says each, in Edgeware the chicken kebabs says $7.99/kg but the title says 5 pieces, Parklands has beef and cheese burgers at $2.50/kg but I bet it'll be each.

          • AssociatedGrosave Support @ grosave.co.nz on 07/04/2025 - 21:57

            @Stoic: Yes we've noticed that too and are working on improving those ones. How did you find the price history?

    • Slogan on 09/04/2025 - 15:19

      It looks like the Metro stores in the Woolworths chain aren't returning any data. Please check Pakenham St W, Lower Albert St, and Victoria St W branches in Auckland.

      • AssociatedGrosave Support @ grosave.co.nz on 16/04/2025 - 13:26

        Okay will investigate and get back to you.

        You are right, these are not returning anything…good spotting!

      • AssociatedGrosave Support @ grosave.co.nz on 16/04/2025 - 13:33

        I just checked with the dev team, and it seems like those stores don't have an online offering so we can't get any data from them…they shouldn't be appearing on our site…we will try remove them.

        Sorry for the inconvenience we will add them in as soon as they set up an online site!

        • Slogan on 16/04/2025 - 14:19
          +1

          If you remove them entirely you'll get questions about why they're not there.
          I suggest that you continue to display them on the map, but make them unselectable with a visual tag saying 'no data.'
          Also it would be wise to run a check for all the stores listed in your database to see if there are any others that should be tagged 'no data.'

          • Alan6984 on 16/04/2025 - 15:39

            @Slogan: I agree - don't make a rod for your own back!

  • Wakrak on 07/04/2025 - 18:54

    Great site OP. Currently playing around with it on a desktop browser. Is it possible to have a deselect all button in the store selection section under settings?

    • AssociatedGrosave Support @ grosave.co.nz on 07/04/2025 - 21:58

      Would this be to deselect all the stores you've selected?
      If you go to list view and then tap the "Your Stores" tab, tapping on the stores there will deselect them pretty quickly.

      • Wakrak on 08/04/2025 - 18:31

        Just more for trying to find deals nationwide. Can be a bit of a slow process selecting and deselecting 50 stores over and over. But might be a bit of a niche request anyway.

        • AssociatedGrosave Support @ grosave.co.nz on 11/04/2025 - 15:02

          Okay I see, if I understood this correctly, your trying to find the best deals in each city? When you login, our homepage already has this functionality, you can view the deals in any city or store of your choosing in New Zealand.

          Is this helpful to you? Or were you wanting to compare prices between say Christchurch and Auckland?

          To deselect all the stores instantly, a hack is to decrease the radius in map view to 0 or to move the radius around slightly by clicking elsewhere. that will get rid of everything instantly.

  • Alan6984 on 07/04/2025 - 22:36

    This is looking really interesting now - great work!

    I haven't played around a lot at this point, so no specific feedback, but I most definitely will be :-)

    • AssociatedGrosave Support @ grosave.co.nz on 08/04/2025 - 12:17

      Sweet Thank you :)
      Please let us know of any feedback you have!

  • liz181 on 08/04/2025 - 17:43

    Add chemist warehouse bargin chemist local fruit & vege shops that have online shop mitre10 bunnings

    • xsolider on 08/04/2025 - 20:05

      Then add noel leeming harvey norman? This is a grocery app.

      • ace310 on 09/04/2025 - 16:11

        I would agree on Chemist warehouse as it has majority of products which duo poly carries including pharmacy & cosmetic items.

        • AssociatedGrosave Support @ grosave.co.nz on 11/04/2025 - 14:53

          Thank you for your message :) We will do our best to add in Chemist Warehouse as soon as possible. Improving search is currently number 1 priority and then we will do our best to add chemist warehouse in.

  • liz181 on 08/04/2025 - 20:27

    Those places have cleaning & laundry products thats why

    • akrotohur on 08/04/2025 - 20:54

      Bunnings too have cleaning products, pet products, some Mitre10 stores now sell groceries like bread and milk :D

  • Stoic on 10/04/2025 - 09:41

    I purchased 5kg of Dark chocolate mint squares from New World as I saw the discount on Grosave.

    $3.39/kg + $5 click and collect fee. $26.99 - $36.80/kg elsewhere.

    I was in a rush so didn't go instore to check what the advertised price instore was.

    No idea what I'm going to do with them all.

    They actually called me to confirm that was what I actually wanted to order (it was the only thing I ordered) as it seemed odd. I was expecting them to tell me it was a pricing error and that my order was cancelled.

    • justaddwater on 10/04/2025 - 09:44

      cheapies party at your place this weekend?

  • doubledippps on 10/04/2025 - 10:52

    I like the 'Today's Biggest Deals' section and also able to check the price history, but I constantly can't find the products through search, and the website is pretty laggy. I tried looking for Market Kitchen Milk, Purex 2-ply Mega 12s, and Regal Home Toilet Paper, but even after scrolling through pages, they didn’t show up. Most of the time I need to keep tweaking with the keywords.

    • Alan6984 on 10/04/2025 - 10:59

      I like the 'Today's Biggest Deals' section, but I constantly can't find the products through search, and the website is pretty laggy. I tried looking for Market Kitchen Milk, Purex 2-ply Mega 12s, and Regal Home Toilet Paper, but even after scrolling through pages, they didn’t show up.

      Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are trying to do, but perhaps none of those products are currently a 'biggest deal', so they won't show on that page?

      More likely, the other possibility is that the programmers seem to have chosen to only populate a small list of items on that page, and you have to manually scroll down for it to populate more.

      I can only guess that it is a shortcut / simple way to program it, but it definitely reduces the functionality of the site significantly compared to populating, say, 100 rows initially, with a control that allows you to change that to 250, 500, 1000, 2000 rows etc which would be technically superior but possibly much more complicated to program.

      Personally, I would be happy to wait a few minutes to get everything show up (although you could limit it to, say, 9999 rows I guess) as that maximises the value to me.

      • doubledippps on 10/04/2025 - 11:04

        Ah sorry, I probably didn’t explain it well — I wasn’t trying to find those products on the ‘Biggest Deals’ page. I was using the search function to look them up directly, so I could add them to a list or set up an alert. But even with exact names or different keyword combos, they just wouldn’t show up. For example, I searched using the exact name "Purex 2-ply Mega 12s", but the result didn’t include that item at all. Same with milk or Market Kitchen Milk — I tried scrolling through pages of results, but a Market Kitchen milk never shows up at all. And when I search Regal Home, it only gives me results for Regal salmon.

        • xsolider on 10/04/2025 - 11:26

          I've been using their product for a while. The search function still needs improvements which seems to be the only downside. It defeats Grocer in all other ways. What you can do is use the filter to narrow down the search outcomes. Otherwise use the scanner to save your regular purchases when you're in store next time.

        • Alan6984 on 10/04/2025 - 11:49

          Ah sorry, I probably didn’t explain it well — I wasn’t trying to find those products on the ‘Biggest Deals’ page. I was using the search function to look them up directly, so I could add them to a list or set up an alert. But even with exact names or different keyword combos, they just wouldn’t show up. For example, I searched using the exact name "Purex 2-ply Mega 12s", but the result didn’t include that item at all. Same with milk or Market Kitchen Milk — I tried scrolling through pages of results, but a Market Kitchen milk never shows up at all. And when I search Regal Home, it only gives me results for Regal salmon.

          If I put 'Market Milk' in the search, it returns no milks, but if I put in 'Milk Market' I get a load of results.

          No idea why, but search functions on many sites seem to be the same, and have been for thirty odd years. There must be a good reason….

          Northern Light was the first actual search engine that I recall fixing it so that the word order didn't (seem to) matter, then I think Google made it so that the order mattered but only in terms of the prioritisation of the results. I don't know what Google (or any other engine) does today though.

          Can't recall how Gopher worked prior to the web :-)

    • AssociatedGrosave Support @ grosave.co.nz on 16/04/2025 - 13:39

      We have improved the performance of the website, so it should not be as laggy as before. Please let us know if this is the case!
      Improving search is our biggest goal and we will keep improving it!

  • Stoic on 16/04/2025 - 12:27
    +2

    I'm glad this alternative to grocer.nz now exists.

    I see grocer.nz has now limited their max selected stores to 6, unless you subscribe to their pro plan for $5 a month.

    • AssociatedGrosave Support @ grosave.co.nz on 16/04/2025 - 13:38
      +1

      Thank you for your comment, all our features that you see right now will remain free including stores selected and multiple shopping lists among others.

      On another note, the unit data fix to the biggest deals section should happen any day now, so you won't get random prices for items such as chillies or kebabs.

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