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The Hunt: 11 Apps For Savvy Shoppers
Slide Nr 1Ever stopped yourself from buying something you really wanted because you felt you could get it elsewhere for less? From price comparisons to bargain finders, these apps take the time and guesswork out of shopping – so you can click, buy and feel good knowing you got the best deal.
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Slide Nr 2Price Comparison – Looking for price comparison apps can be as overwhelming as shopping for those great deals the price comparison apps were supposed to help you find. A few leading providers offer several money-saving functions in one convenient app. The likes of BuyVia and SlickDeals and have deals, coupons, rebates, promotions, price comparisons and price monitoring for supermarkets, high street and online stores, both on their websites and in their apps.
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Slide Nr 3Barcode Scanner Apps – If you aren’t broadly searching for a type of product (like “black hiking boots”), but specifically want to compare prices on one particular item – which you happen to have on hand – a barcode scanner is the quickest and easiest option. Simply hover over the cryptic code and apps like ShopSavvy or ScanLife will identify the product, compare prices both locally and online, and suggest offers. They also double as QR code readers.
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Slide Nr 4Loyalty Card Apps – Loyalty cards should be great in theory, but in practice, they either add a load of bulk to your wallet or you constantly forget to bring them to the store. The likes of Key Ring, Stocard and Stamp Me allow you to store an unlimited number of membership, loyalty and rewards cards digitally, on your phone. Just choose one app and stick with it, else your electronic wallet will soon be digitally bulging with too many apps.
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Slide Nr 5Location-Based Beacon Apps – Beacons, Bluetooth low energy (BLE) devices and wearables are all still in their infancy, but these technologies combined make hyper-local marketing – and savings – possible. In-store beacons can send offers or coupons to nearby BLE devices, meaning you receive money-saving deals at the very moment when you can actually use them. Shopular sends alerts relevant to your interests when you’re near a shop with discounts available.
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The Hunt: 11 Apps For Savvy Shoppers.
Slide Nr 6Coupon Apps – Excessive couponing can be the sign of a serious shopping addiction, the cause of domestic conflict, not to mention a colossal waste of time. But smart, targeted use of coupons, for purchases that were going to be made anyway, is just good budgeting. Snip Snap lets you clip coupons digitally, so ditch the scissors and snap a picture of the coupon instead. Other apps, like RetailMeNot, let you browse brands offering digital coupons.
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The Hunt: 11 Apps For Savvy Shoppers.
Slide Nr 7Cashback Apps – Almost as good as spending less on your shop: Spending what you usually would and getting some of your money back. Cashback apps (Quidco, CheckoutSmart, scondoo, et al.) allow you to either access online deals through links or upload physical and digital receipts to verify a purchase. Once you’ve reached a certain sum, you get cold, hard cash (well, a cold hard bank transfer) back. These apps are usually restricted to one country, so you might need to research what’s available in your market.
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The Hunt: 11 Apps For Savvy Shoppers.
Slide Nr 8Clever Amazon Shopping Hacks – No matter how you feel about Amazon, its personnel policies and impact on high street stores, you probably use it at least occasionally. The range of products, vendors and prices can be overwhelming, and prices change frequently, so it’s worth knowing some clever Amazon hacks to save money. Camelcamelcamel doesn’t have a catchy name, slick design or cool features, but it does one thing really well: track price changes and tell you the lowest possible price you can buy a product at. If you’re short a few pounds or dollars (UK and US only), use the Amazon Filler Item Finder to get free shipping.
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The Hunt: 11 Apps For Savvy Shoppers.
Slide Nr 9Price Monitoring Apps – How often have you wanted to buy something, decided to wait until it’s on sale… and then completely forgotten about it? There’s great potential for an app that monitors prices and notifies users when an item from their wish list becomes available. Apps offering this service have come and gone, and the ones that are still around are either limited to specific retailers or can only track a type of product rather than a specific item, but they can still be useful. Some examples to try include Hafta Have, Shoptagr, Taggr and Slick Deals.
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The Hunt: 11 Apps For Savvy Shoppers.
Slide Nr 10Camera Shopper – You don’t know what that thing is, but you know you want it? Snap a picture with visual search engine CamFind and identify the object of your desires, then find out where you can buy it. The app is also particularly handy as a visual diary, to remind yourself of things you discover throughout the day, or to find inspiration from items snapped by other users.
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The Hunt: 11 Apps For Savvy Shoppers.
Slide Nr 11Daily Deal – Once upon a time, sites that offered one spectacular deal at a time, for a limited period, were a revolutionary and enticing concept. Many of us realised that actually finding the exact thing you want (for a good price) is more useful than finding a bunch of stuff you don’t really need. Nonetheless, several daily deal sites, like Woot and Tanga, are still going strong and offer the thrill of discovering a killer deal at rock-bottom prices.
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Slide Nr 12Fun Deals – We won’t promise that you’ll find everything – or even anything – you’ve ever wanted at the enticingly named Meh.com – but you’ll definitely have a lot of fun finding stuff you may or may not need or want. The product descriptions are a rambling mess, the highly active forums are a delight, and the daily deals range from very useful and seriously cheap to totally random, but so cheap you might as well… It also poses the question you were probably dying to ask: “Who’s buying this crap?”
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