Comments on: Grocery Shopping – for Smart People

By: Jason Lee

Jason Lee — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:58:46 +0000

I believe preparing a list before your Grocery Shopping is the best way of buying items that are essentials.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:14:09 +0000

Do not believe in this.

Supermarkets change items within all aisles every so often so this list you set out to make becomes v.redundant within a few weeks.

By: Dave Cheong

Dave Cheong — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:33:17 +0000

Thanks guys for leaving comments. I can’t believe this little tool I spent a few spare hours working on has turned out to be so popular. Every time the server is down, someone always email me saying it’s down.

Great to see I’ve been of service.

Best wishes,
dave

By: Bobbi

Bobbi — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:38:58 +0000

All I can Say is Thankyou Mr. Cheong. I’ve been looking and searching the world over for this and you have it. Thanx for sharing. I for one very much appreciate it.

By: Dog Forum

Dog Forum — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:26:14 +0000

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By: Rajeev

Rajeev — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:33:23 +0000

Hi,
I have developed a free online shopping list manager , Caartz http://www.caartz.com

Its similar to your idea of generating shopping lists, but you can also save them for further use. There are other features to check out as well.

Thanks,
Rajeev

By: Honza

Honza — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:03:51 +0000

Great idea, great tool.

I recently went to a supermarket in a town I haven’t lived in for a couple of years, and I swear, by the time I came out (with only about 15 items) I was thoroughly cheesed, it had taken me about 1.5 hours to find everything (and I still didn’t have everything on my list) instead of what should have taken 30 minutes max.

Of course, in the two years since I had been there, they had completely re-arranged the whole store… I wonder how often stores usually do this, and why. ALL supermarkets should put a downloadable product map on their websites.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:11:49 +0000

Hi Dave,

Nice article and a good work on your program. You may be intereseted in trying GrocerySurf by Eksendia. The URL is:
http://www.eksendia.com/
It has a shopping list generator and auto-reminder for items you are low on, recipe to shopping list automatic transfer and it is available on mobile phone. Has multiple store support, you can print it by aisle with automatic aisle detection when known.

By: lilnaniam

lilnaniam — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 05:36:48 +0000

Hello Dave,
I was wondering is this in Java or C++. I am currently a new student to Java and we have this same program as a project. Ours is reading input in from a specified file from the user, I havn’t got mine totally working yet as I am confused on where to actually read the file in. I am using 4 classes.

By: Dave Cheong

Dave Cheong — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:22:55 +0000

Restarted the server again and it should now be running. Not sure why the server is crashing, but I’ll keep an eye out in case it happens again and hopefully can determine the cause.

Thanks for letting me know.

dave