Goodie Bag: Local Food Deals

I really love the Goodie Bag app. It’s provided me with an opportunity to be introduced to a variety of local businesses that I had not known that existed. By providing a platform for local businesses to share their goodies at a significant discount, it’s giving me a chance to enjoy some really great products for a deal and meet some new businesses. From a technology standpoint, the app works, wonderfully, has great design and is easy to use , I like being able to create favorites as well as getting notified when new goodie bags are available. This app will be a regular go to for me.

Love the concept of this app and I’m so glad to see so many more stores that continue to join! My only feedback for the team here is to make sure you don’t end up just running promos for the stores and have standards for what they can give you. I did have one experience with produce where the food had majority spoiled already, but overall usually great!

Yesterday they released a new notification system where it basically gives you notifications on whatever stores it wants. You can no longer select which stores to get notifications from. This means I’m getting multiple notifications an hour from random stores on the opposite side of town. The only limit you can set is how many notifications you get a day. If I limit to only a few notifications a day and they keep sending me random ones, I’ll miss out on the ones I actually use. Super disappointing from an app I really loved.