Alice – Your Personal Shopping Assistant15 July 2009, 5:00 am
I used to have a OK time stocking my little bachelor pad. But after I got married and had a baby, it isn’t always that easy keeping all your items, your significant other’s items as well as the little one’s diapers and food stocked on your shelves. I hear some of you guys snickering and saying, “Isn’t that what you have a wife for?”
True but she has lots of other important stuff to do like, I don’t know… Um, how about raising my daughter?
We have found a website that helps keep our stockable items in stock!
It even can beat most of the prices you are currently paying – especially if you are buying things in a brick and mortar store. Alice is the help we have been looking for and this handy web service is free! Just the way we like it! Let’s take a look at how she works:
First, you have to sign up for the service and tell them a little bit about your family and what products they/you use. For example, if you add an adult female, tampons become a stockable item or a child under 3 — diapers. The service categorizes items by the person who will most likely use them. So I selected the This is me button next to “Adult male”. Then, I choose an adult woman and a baby. This was easily done by the screen you see below:
Next up is your chance to narrow down products that you don’t use. Everything starts out checked, so uncheck the products you don’t want to see or that you do not care about. For example, if you do not use women’s deodorant or you do not want Alice to track this (ie: you get it somewhere for free or really cheap) than just uncheck the box and continue on.
You knew it was coming… The registration. Fill in your info along with a valid email address and you are on your way to completing the setup process.
Now you should search and add your favorite products. Then you can order what you need online for right now as well as let Alice remind you when it thinks you are running low on a specific product.
Let’s take a look at your products. From here, you see each item represented by a blue duck. To go into one (or remove one) click on the plus sign on the duck.
That takes you to the individual product page and you can find your brands or specific products here. Or simply click “Delete the duck” to remove this item.
When you click “Let’s Go Find Some” you will come to a product page where you can add products, pick sizes and see what discounts are available. See the listing from baby diapers. This is only a small fraction of the 50 items they carry. 17 of them have coupons or savings available.
Next, you can create a custom label, choose how many you order at a time, and you can choose when Alice should remind you to get some more. If a product is out of stock, you can select “Save for future order” and add it to your list. Then you will be notified when it becomes available.
After you are done, you can always go back and add or modify products in one of three ways. You can search, browse or click an item’s place holder.
Well, to me, this service is simply awesome! It helps me out a lot! Do you use a similar service? Do you save money using it? If so, let us know in the comments!
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