mySupermarket – Shopping List

Oh, this app has gone from being a 4.5 out of 5 in the early days, with a few annoying missing features and quirky layout, etc. to 0 stars! Congratulations to the developers having the abilities to be able to ruin a great idea in just a few short years! I can only assume they are ex-Microsoft developers, as they too manage to have Sadim touch! You have joined the elite group of developers that need to find a new job, because they certainly can’t develop an app that is useful! As many have said, the adverts, which actually shouldn’t be necessary, have made a quick check of pricing into a nightmare! I have deleted the app and would rather use the individual supermarket apps to check on pricing - oh! it’s quicker, believe it or not! Then I realised, to write a review, I needed to reinstall the app, but once I’ve done this review I’ll delete it again! I do hope this app fails miserably and dies a death as I believe someone with better insight needs to take on the task of providing a proper app. The quality of apps in recent times have become appalling, we need a new breed of developer - developers that have foresight and understand that advertising in-your-face junk is not the main reason for downloading an app! Goodbye myjunkamarket

For the past year I have been waiting for the connections issues to be sorted out. Not sure how it’s been coded but 50% of the time I get the message about not being connected to the internet. Well I can definitely swap to Safari and get to the mySupermarket website using https. So you tell me what’s happening because I don’t have a clue. When it was working this was a good wee app. So, now Safari stutters and keeps partially reloading the pages -it’s definitely in some sort of loop. So I tried Chrome and at least Chrome worked and I could use the website (meanwhile the app still thinks there’s no connection to the internet!) And I’m not even going to mention the new ad implementation again - except to say whoever decided this was the way to add ads should be fired. Many other apps do ads in a less intrusive way. You can still get ad revenue without wrecking the app entirely. How much revenue are you going to get when I get my app teams to create a better price comparison app and everyone bins this one !!!!! Take the bags off your heads and realise there are better ways of doing this. Sermon over.

This app used to be great. Unfortunately some pen pusher got so over excited about ad revenues as an income model that they went ahead and purchased the most inappropriate ad system. So much so that you can’t really use this (well what was) as a quick convenience tool. I searched for something - the world had to just stop while the longest advert had to play to completion - before you find out if you put the item in your hand into the basket it back in the shelf. If you thought it is a one time thing, you’d be wrong. You do the next item on the list and again the world seems to come to a stop until an excruciatingly long video has to play before finding out if this item could be bought cheaper elsewhere and you can carry on with your rush round the supermarket or creating a quick shopping list. Seriously, I didn’t even get to the end of that second search before shutting the app as life’s to short. Many users understand some apps need ads. It’s the type you’ve put in that making your customers leave in droves. Best option would be to get rid of ads entirely, - who likes ads in apps nobody. You can have a free version - maybe so many searches. And have a paid for version. I for one would be happy to pay for this app. Or pay to stop the ads.