Monday, March 31, 2008

Street Shopping

Just had to share a cool new website for shopping. It's called Slifter.com, and the company is fast-pitching AT&T at the CTIA conference this week in Vegas. I got a preview last week.

The idea is to access the site from your mobile phone, enter an item you want to buy and where you are located. It will then provide you with the best prices, nearby retail stores where the products are sold, and real-time inventory. How cool is that?

I tried to locate a good price for a Wii in Chelsea. Slifter directed me to the Best Buy on 23rd and Sixth Ave and I found it for the suggested price! The coolest part about it was that the 4 Wiis in the store weren't even on the floor yet; I had to ask the sales staff for them. They had basically just been unloaded off the truck!

I'm becoming such a techie, I should work for CNET.

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