Crazy thing is… I’d pay for a service like the one mentioned in the post. As long as it was still a net savings of course. Even if I broke even it would still be taking the mental load of doing that off my wife and I.
Honestly though you bring up a good point. Having a strategy to try to shop economically but not worry about every exact penny is probably a better life strategy than trying to analyze every scrap of data with systems in monetized, enshittified ways that ‘optimize’ your decision making.
For most uses, simple heuristics that gets us 95% of the way there for little effort or cost are better than resource intensive enshittified data systems that get us more ‘optimized’ results in a narrow sense.
I’d much rather just shop Aldi and learn how to cook eggs and and shit than try add another enshittified app 'experience ’ to my daily life. I dont even use those fucking grocery apps for coupons anymore. In addition to the data scraping and selling they undoubtedly do, it isn’t even worth it considering the time and inconvenience to manage the data and coupons. Between that shit and self-checkout, its like you are a low grade part time employee LOL.
Crazy thing is… I’d pay for a service like the one mentioned in the post. As long as it was still a net savings of course. Even if I broke even it would still be taking the mental load of doing that off my wife and I.
It’s called a Costco membership
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Honestly though you bring up a good point. Having a strategy to try to shop economically but not worry about every exact penny is probably a better life strategy than trying to analyze every scrap of data with systems in monetized, enshittified ways that ‘optimize’ your decision making.
For most uses, simple heuristics that gets us 95% of the way there for little effort or cost are better than resource intensive enshittified data systems that get us more ‘optimized’ results in a narrow sense.
I’d much rather just shop Aldi and learn how to cook eggs and and shit than try add another enshittified app 'experience ’ to my daily life. I dont even use those fucking grocery apps for coupons anymore. In addition to the data scraping and selling they undoubtedly do, it isn’t even worth it considering the time and inconvenience to manage the data and coupons. Between that shit and self-checkout, its like you are a low grade part time employee LOL.