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Re:Give It the Craigslist Test by myself248 on Saturday May 06, 2023 @01:26PM (#35843447)
They load faster, too.

I'm presently grocery-shopping in another tab, and I am continually amazed at what a terrible UX I put up with. Compare any grocery website to McMaster-Carr and it's not even 10x, it's like 100x worse. But I give them my business because the competition is actually even worse.

Re:Give It the Craigslist Test by ghostpepper on Saturday May 06, 2023 @03:18PM (#35844515)
There must be something about grocery sites that makes them so awful. I've even submitted feedback to a delivery service that I used to use with comments like

"enabling a filter for meat shows recommended items from other categories above the meat products"

"clicking on page 2 of results resets all filters"

"searching for item X returns a list of results that does not contain it, but navigation shows it clearly exists"

etc.

How can it be so bad??

Re:Give It the Craigslist Test by toast0 on Saturday May 06, 2023 @03:22PM (#35844537)
> "clicking on page 2 of results resets all filters"

My favorite is when you add a filter when you're on page 2 and now you're on page 2 of the filtered results.

Re:Give It the Craigslist Test by lost_tourist on Saturday May 06, 2023 @09:59PM (#35847182)
Instacart's "plugin" for Aldi is sooooo slow compared to Amazon. It's some weird amalgamation of single page and multi page "post" type designs. It's kinda pretty though I guess.
Re:Give It the Craigslist Test by germinalphrase on Saturday May 06, 2023 @07:57PM (#35846522)
Grocery apps are almost universally tedious trash.

Want me to on board? Probably 70 percent of every grocery trip is the same essentials, so just let me scan my recipes and offer the opportunity to quick select from that list of items next time.

Re:Give It the Craigslist Test by bombcar on Saturday May 06, 2023 @11:11PM (#35847546)
McDonalds has at least figured that one out; you can just "reorder last order" from like the last 10.

If you want to feel real pain, try using the grocery apps or similar on slow cell signal; it's death. No! I do NOT need a 12 MB image of the bottle of milk I buy each week, I just want to see if it's back in stock!