UK supermarket Tesco has teamed up with task-managing service IFTTT, so customers can automate some of their shopping. There are several “recipes”, for example items can be automatically added to the shopping basket when prices drop or semi-skimmed milk is added to the basket every Thursday.
Tesco announced the creation of its own channel on IFTTT.com on its Tesco Labs blog. “With the rise of connected home devices we’ve been doing a variety of experiments to help serve shoppers a little better every day and today we’re happy to announce one of these is now available for you to try yourself”, the UK’s largest supermarket chain wrote.
This is how IFTTT works
Tesco created several recipes which can be turned on by IFTTT users. IFTTT, short for ‘If this then that’, is a platform where different online services come together to enable the user to do clever things. For example, a user might get an email alert when rain is forecast or disables WiFi whenever he leaves his home. The basic structure always consists of a trigger and an action.
Now Tesco can also be used as one of the triggers or actions. Tesco Labs itself created six recipes, from “If the price of a product changes then send me an email” to “if it’s warm tomorrow, add burgers to your shopping basket”, but more can be found on the IFTTT platform.
Tesco customers who want to use the recipes, only need to have a Tesco Groceries and an IFTTT account and add the Tesco channel.
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