Mysupermarket closing - alternatives?

carpy

Bacman said:

Is this forum thread accurate? Just tried mysupermarket.co.uk and it still works as good as always. It is now 2nd March, the day after the site was supposed to close??

website not working???

janet278

@carpy I don’t understand your comment. Are you asking or telling?

johnny_storm

A_Nice_Englishman said:

johnny_storm said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

Well I've just downloaded it, and whilst it's a good starting point it's no way as useful as MySupermaket because the product listing is much smaller. But much better than nowt.

Its a great opportunity for the people behind this app.  I hope they are interested enough to develop it.

Why would they continue to develop Comparasaurus when they could buy Mysupermarket?

Could be any number of reasons. Mysupermarket might want a lot of money for it, and they have already invested their time in their own version.  It could also be that MSM needs a lot of servers to run, that equally they could not afford.

PickyShopper

So disappointed about MySupermarket, it's made such a difference to my shopping bill! Not sure what to do now. Wonder how many users there were??? Admittedly never considered how it was funded, and only ever used the site - hadn't got round to the app. Agree with others that it would be worth a small fee / membership if it could be continued!

MissPasko

maman said:

I won't miss it massively but am sorry it's gone. I always found it was limited in comparison as so many shops that were listed didn't show any prices although I know they sold the product. Also I don't buy much in the way of brands. 
I don't agree with the poster who relies on B&M for the best price. That's definitely not the case.
I'll stick to Aldi for the majority of my shopping and hope that I notice in my newspaper when there's 25% off wine! 😁
This board can help to by posting when we see good reductions. 

Just as an aside, I found that one reason MySupermarket did not show a price for Item X at a particular retailer, is that Item X comes in various sizes, and some retailers stock the 200 ml, some the 400 ml, some the 350 ml.

Larches

No idea what's going on - as Bacman points out, the site is still up and running, a day after the CEO said it would be taken down. I'm also rather curious at how it was announced very abruptly, and what "as we shift our activity toward other business areas" means. All seems a bit strange to me.

As for Comparasaurus, thanks to those who have pointed it out, but aside from the Play Store rating (3.7 from only ‎26 votes) I suspect it may not quite be a like-for-like alternative. Haven't tried it out yet though, not least because I can't think why it would need all the permissions it asks for:

    read phone status and identity
    read the contents of your USB storage
    modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
    receive data from Internet
    full network access
    draw over other apps

Maybe there are good reasons, but I can't imagine what.

Meanwhile, I live in hope that Mysupermarket will be (or has been) rescued somehow, as I found the offer alerts very useful indeed, and the individual supermarket websites don't offer that feature (and probably won't) as far as I can see.

Rosa_Damascena

Bacman said:

Is this forum thread accurate? Just tried mysupermarket.co.uk and it still works as good as always. It is now 2nd March, the day after the site was supposed to close??

Maybe it's just not being updated?

carpy

mysupermarket website no longer working.....must be the app you are still using?

annieh1701

I also received an email telling me that mysupermarket was to close on 1st March. However, this morning I had an email from them. It was just a normal use us type email. I have done a shop today using mysupermarket and everything worked as normal. I have even received a "thank you for saving with mysupermarket" email.

annieh1701

Re my previous post - it was the website I used not the app.