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by mschuster91 1051 days ago
> One area where AI agents can help, is in going to the supermarket!

No need for AI there - there already are apps that you can use to scan the barcodes of products to filter for Nestle [1].

> But underneath the colorful ink, it's all the same crap

Not exactly. There are definitely differences between brand-name products and whitelabel ones... in food, for example, substituting actual sugar for cheaper HFCS, or industrial farming produce and meat as ingredients instead of certified-organic ones free from pesticides, or different ratios between "valuable" ingredients (meat) vs filler (grain), or legit aroma/flavour instead of synthetic. In non-food, product quality (plastic parts vs metal), repairability or stuff like warranty / support / security update availability.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buycott.an...