Just read an article in the New York Times: there is an application for the Apple iPhone called ShopSavvy, which helps you find the best price of an item. If you are in a store, you can scan the bar code of the item using this application, and it will show you where you may find it for less.
It seems that this is only one of many applications dedicated to help us all get the best prices while shopping in actual stores since we already know we can do all this from a computer at home.
Another application called MyCoupons.com also looks for coupons for the store you are shopping at.
There are other phones, other than the Apple iPhone, for which these applications are suited, and I have not yet done further research on it, but this is an entirely new way to shop.
Normally I would use my Blackberry to go online while in a store and start searching for prices on an item, using PriceGrabber.com for example, but it can take too long.
By the way, from my computer, I just opened up a site called TheFind.com. You put in the item you want and in seconds you can see all the difference places it is sold along with prices.
Retrevo.com , an electonics review site, uses the application RetrevoQ, letting users send a text or Twitter message with the product they want to buy and they will get a quick response telling them whether to buy it at the given price and it lists a range of online prices.
Needless to say, I am thrilled knowing how easy it has become to price shop. And this is only the beginning.
Maybe when I am eligible for a phone upgrade, Verizon will have the Apple iPhone. I don't want to switch to AT&T.
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