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Deep search of local stores. Several times I have needed to get product X, be it a hammer, sandals etc. but have no idea where to get it locally. Do I have to
by bemmu 17y ago
Deep search of local stores.
Several times I have needed to get product X, be it a hammer, sandals etc. but have no idea where to get it locally. Do I have to take the bus to center, or is it sold in some of the smaller shops around me? One weekend we spent hours looking for sandals. At least here local shops don't list specific items they have on their websites.
I imagine this would work by people contributing product info from shops as they visit them, perhaps snapping pics of aisles with their iPhones, and then having a separate group of people tagging the products they see in the photos.
- derefr 17y agoThere's a much simpler way: an iPhone app that would let you take pictures of UPC barcodes, and would upload the UPC + GPS to a database (which would look up the UPC with the central UPC service to find out what it means.) it would also let you enter a quantitative capacity (not how much there is at the moment, but rather how much the shelf looks like it was spaced to hold.) Searching could be done from the same app or on the web, and the indexers rewarded with discounts—on the specific things they're indexing—for previously unindexed (UPC, GPS) tuples.
- hedgehog 17y agoI would have loved to have that last week when I was in Baltimore and looking for a RJ-45 crimper. You might be able to convince store owners to enter their inventory if it then showed up in Google searches (it would drive more customers their way).