Ideas & Opinions
Mobile shopping
By James on 06 February 2009
GLOBAL – Ever thought about using your phone to store your shopping list? I hadn’t, ever. Looking through the finalists for the NavTeq Global LBS Challenge (a developer comp, designed to highlight top Location Based apps and services) I stumpled upon Yoose – a mobile wallet concept, but not as you know it.
Yoose wants to partner with stores to distribute loyalty cards, coupons and more to users phones. There’s no mention of getting money involved, but I can see the potential here, and I reckon it’s pretty huge. Oh, it’ll handle shopping lists too.
My wife and I always have the same problem, we’re in the wrong supermarket with the wrong loyalty card. Those cards are a big deal in the UK, where users get bonus points and discount vouchers and the store gets to know what you buy and when you buy it. Of course, it’s worth doing, as the rewards for the effort involved are pretty beneficial.
But, it’s another plastic card in my wallet. And given we’re not store-loyal, we can be shopping in any one of five supermarkets. That makes it five more cards. Take all that stuff onto my phone and I can have a loyalty card for every store I visit – with no added bulk. There’s a PC-based element to Yoose, where it seems you’ll be able to write and manage your shopping list, before pumping it onto your phone. This is all good stuff.
I never thought I’d find myself saying this, but I want this app. Now. How about you?
Photo by 8586443@N03
Related posts:
Tags | Global LBS Challenge, Mobile shopping, Navteq, Yoose
February 6th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Nice idea with the shopping tags. I’ve always thought that I should just simply have a sticker or something like that on my mobile that would just get swipped and registered at various stores – instead of the keychain full of mini-cards I have now.
Very good idea. Thanks for the link.
Reply
February 6th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
There was a good Lifehacker article a couple years back where they suggested making a single card and pasting about 5 of your loyalty barcodes on it.
But let’s take this all one step further. The handset should be able to be used as the loyalty token in some form (bluetooth, display a barcode, whatever), I should be able to add items to a shopping or wish list via the camera and the barcodes, AND I should have easy access to the shopping list on either a PC (web based is fine) or the mobile.
Right now, I achieve the latter with Ovi.com and the notes app in my handset. I have one note that is a shopping list, and one that is a grocery list. It’s not ideal, but I can add stuff easily just about anywhere I think of it.
Reply
February 9th, 2009 at 1:08 am
This is an excellent idea, I got more supermarket’s plastic cards in my wallet that credit cards and other personal cards! lol!
Reply
February 12th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Handy from epocware.com has just realised their handy shopping list. Its a longtime coming as i previously had it on my n70 but they never made one for nokia s60v3 but its now finally arrived this week.
Reply
November 13th, 2009 at 7:43 am
This is very good opportunity for the peoples. I think the Credit card is a great source of shopping online.
Reply