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The store location selector forgets all the time which you had selected last. What's best is it appears to try to infer location from ip address, so when you ar
by bagels 5y ago
The store location selector forgets all the time which you had selected last. What's best is it appears to try to infer location from ip address, so when you are in a home Depot on a mobile, it picks a different store from the one you are standing in.
- paulmd 5y agoI think a lot of stores incorporate a "cheater" mechanism where if you're on the store wifi they use that as the location. You could pick it up via IP or hardware MAC (even if you are on a VPN the local router still knows your MAC from when you passed the ToS accept portal). Doesn't help cell service of course, and cellular data clients are REALLY tricky to geolocate properly. Cell towers are often trunked a considerable distance (apparently?) so your IP can indicate you're quite far from your physical location. Pages really rely on the browser to cue location in that scenario, but of course many of us turn it off, and at that point you get what you get.
- bagels 5y agoCompletely agree, without precise location, they are relying on unreliable signals. You should only have to tell it once explicitly though, they don't seem to keep the cookies around for the store selection.
- adnmcq999 5y agoOur HD can’t get their internet to work, so we have to use our own data to look shit up. Idk how cellular data works but I’m usually some store in Chicago (despite being in Madison), it seems to vary depending on where I am in the store, though I may be making connections that aren’t there.