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Comparison shopping is an art to some and an obsession to others.But getting the best price in one way can come at a cost in others-- in the gas you burn while driving to reach that great sale, forexample, or the time it may take you to travel from one grocerystore to the next to cherry-pick each one's weekly sale items, orthe hours spent scouring the Internet for bargains. NetPlenish, a startup based in Ventura, Calif., aims to help youminimize those hidden costs. Its app sorts through the various merchants selling the items youwant, and bundles them together to get you the best overall deal.It even compares combinations of items to determine whether you'llsave more with shipping costs by buying primarily from onemerchant, or whether you'll spend the least by using a widervariety of retailers. And of course, it's all mobile. Though services like Soap.com, Amazon's Fresh, and Alice.com allserve a similar purpose -- providing one-stop shops for householdstaples -- NetPlenish distinguishes itself through its mobile app,its price comparison capabilities and its simplified checkout. (Acomplicated, time-consuming checkout process is one of our biggest peeves about online shopping). Smaller Purchases, Bigger Savings People have always been willing to put in the effort to score dealson bigger purchases, like cars and travel, and the Web gave themplenty of tools for that. Kayak.com, for example, tracks multiplesites to get customers the best airfares. But incremental savingscan add up quickly on everyday purchases -- trouble is, most folksdon't have the patience to look. "People usually use price comparison for a television but not fordiapers," said Dave Compton, CEO and founder of NetPlenish. "If youwanted to do this for everyday items, you'd have to get a big ol'honkin' spreadsheet." Shopping even without deal searching is a time suck. According toNetPlenish, the average consumer spends 45 minutes nearly twice aweek on errands. Compton -- still haunted by the memory of tryingto go shopping with his toddler daughter in tow -- wants to harnessthe power of the Internet to get the whole shopping experience downfrom 45 minutes to 45 seconds. A More Powerful Algorithm At the heart of NetPlenish is its ShopGenius algorithm, whichscours vendors' prices to find the best deals for multiple items ona user's shopping list. ShopGenius then lets merchants compete toprovide the best overall price, including shipping, sales tax andthe lowest possible product price. "NetPlenish solves a big problem that consumers face every day,which is a single store may not have the best price repeatedly foritems you need to buy over and over, like toothpaste, toilet paper,diapers and dog food," Compton said. "With NetPlenish, your itemscome from a different merchant each delivery, based on who has thelowest price at the time of your purchase." The app, for both iPhones and Androids, is fairly simple to use:Users can add items to their shopping list manually or by scanningbar codes. After that, they can simply tap the items they needreplenished, and they'll receive the products directly from amongthe more than 20 merchants NetPlenish works with, includingWalmart, Target, Walgreens, Drugstore.com and Sephora. Though you may still pay, say, $15 for shipping after saving $15 byoptimizing your deals, NetPlenish views the time saved as anet-positive. And with its painless method for adding regularlypurchased items to your shopping list, it turns shopping intopractically a wave of the hand. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as T8 Led Tubes , Dimmable Led Light Bulbs for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits E27 Led Lamps.
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