Tesco/Asda pricechecker finds here.......

laticsforlife

emmita wrote: »

Be carefull with the bombay sapphire gin, I was going to buy some this afternoon and I noticed that the 1 litre is no longer on the Tesco website and maybe it would be 'n/f'.

I think you may have got this the wrong way round.

If they have it in stock in Tesco at the right price for the DTD, and you buy it, then it can't be N/F can it, coz you've proved it to exist at Tesco.

I've only ever seen N/F in the Asda column.

So they must look for the items you bought and see if they are found on Asda's site (which Bombay is).

Think so anyway.

Rich44_2

Rich_by_Name wrote: »

That is clearly a statement that only someone with no computer programming knowledge could make. A database containing Asda's own prices and the product barcodes won't be available on their website. Tesco would be relying on a 100% match in the name of the product for your idea to work.

There's many different ways to write the name of the same product - a program wouldn't get that high a proportion of matches across the two.

PMSL so how do you think they update the 9000 prices on the checker now then some people in an office manually checking the Asda website??? Of course not. the checker now doesn't check bar codes it's working off of descriptions which is why you're getting silly NF's when Asda clearly do sell the item because it's vague and non-descript

Direct access to the database of course not BUT you can still run queries to pick out your 9000 items quite easily after all I can do it manually using their website and typing in a search so therefore quite easy to code the search yourself there are plenty of examples that do this already, one being the MSE one that checks/checked for cheap seats on the budget airlines it's not hard to do at all for someone with half a brain admitedly that's a little easier as searching dates etc but the basic principle is the same, don't forget you only have to match up items ONCE like your toilet trauma lol. You pick your 9000 items match the descriptions and unless Asda change the descriptions you're set, hell you could just bookmark the page for each item I don't suppose that changes too often. Like I say the descriptions only need matching once, if you wanted to the nasty way of doing so start ordering them and see what's delivered then match that up in your script. then in future all you need to do is test purchase a small % as a representative survey to see if descriptions are still accurate.

The methodology isn't too hard to come up with sitting here having drunk half a bottle of Hardy Crest LOL!! Not to mention the resources Tesco have to throw at doing this really not terribly hard

I think it's you who doesn't have any experience of how a database interacts with a website. Not to mention as someone who used to work for one of the big supermarkets doing pretty much this so hey ho :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Ah just seen your post then clarifying the point I never claimed it would be completely possible you will always have some kind of mismatch that's where a human follow up would come in you'd still have the vast majority done as a screen scraper and i'd venture to suggest theres far more that would easily be matched than not. Something being hard is no reason not to try or we'd still be sitting in caves without fire....

czerniacha

Dr.Who-Who wrote: »

Btw, PTS blocked all the newbies from reading their Tesco/Asda thread - they are so.... paranoid!!! to the mods of PTS loosen up will you - most of us knows that some of you are PTS members (including myself).

they did't accept my membership two days ago... any of you who still have acces to their website could be bothered to post any relevant info here? pretty please

NuffinisFree

Thanks to OP for posting, planning my big shop for next week as have enough food this week.

Could the following be added to first post to make it easier for ppl:

Receipts can't be older than 28 days.

Max of 10 recipts per month.

What happens if item is showing out of stock on tesco or asda webite.

DTD if for basket total not just on individual items (might be worth highlighting this point)

Note - am not critising OP, i think they have done a wonderful job with thier post, justing addiding some info for ppl.

mrs_T

N20Y1D wrote: »

Am I the only one who has no idea what PTS is?

http://www.paidtoshop.co.uk/

Ally74

jessickup wrote: »

im really scared to place this order with tesco...

Nothing ventured........

sarah-t_4

Savvybunny2009 wrote: »

On a more urgent note. Tomorrow, I am hoping everyone is going to update asap with the confirmed DTD deals they have on their vouchers from todays shopping. However... don't Asda and Tesco both change their deals tomorrow, will we be going in blind so to speak on the offers?

My delivery is due on Monday
Does that mean i might not get the good offers

czerniacha

sarah-t wrote: »

My delivery is due on Monday
Does that mean i might not get the good offers

I'm afraid you might...

zoescrims

Am I missing something here? surely if there is no Tesco price check list then

how do we know what we can /cannot buy? I understand we can compare the

prices ourselves and find great deal but if it aint on the list how will T's compare it? personally i'm waiting 'til monday

N20Y1D

sarah-t wrote: »

My delivery is due on Monday
Does that mean i might not get the good offers

Can you not just keep your eyes on here as you can amend your order between now and then.

I've not used online shopping for years but this used to be the case..