What's Planned for the Next Release or Future Releases
of Shopping List Deluxe

Note: if you have ideas for future capabilities of Shopping List Deluxe just drop a note to support@spitting-image.com.

If MasterCook Deluxe hasn't done it yet themselves, we want to add a general purpose capability to combine similar items into a single item on your shopping list.
We'd like to provide coupon "aging" and support multiple coupons. When you identify an item that you have one or more coupon for, you could also identify the expiration date for each of the coupons. Then as a coupon approaches it's expiration date the "©" symbol next to the item would change color - say from green, to yellow (in it's final month), to red (in it's last week).

We'd like to make the web site (www.spitting-image.com) a place for people to share their store maps and recipes with other users of Shopping List Deluxe.

We'd like to add the ability to print a form letter and a copy of the "empty store" for faxing to your local grocer. The form letter would ask them to indicate the aisle numbers for each of the store locations in the empty store and describe how that information will be used to make your shopping experience more enjoyable.

Why not just fax your shopping list to your favorite grocery store and ask them to pull the items before you get there (or just deliver them to your door)? Lots of reasons, not the least of which is that your local grocer may not be willing to do it. But even if they were, a typical shopping list, as generated by MasterCook or Shopping List Deluxe, doesn't contain enough information to choose the exact item from the shelf. We'd like to add the ability to create just such an unambiguous shopping list based on your particular likes and dislikes - which a grocer could use, given that they were so inclined, to pull the exact items you want and even deliver them to your door.

There are more and more web sites out there that will provide coupons for specific items that you want and allow you to download and print them. Wouldn't it be great if you never had to clip a coupon again but could automatically extract coupons from the web for those items that you were going to purchase (or might purchase if the coupon incentive was great enough)? We don't have a clue right now how we would provide this capability through Shopping List Deluxe, but where there's a will, there's a way!