Hi everyone. I want to do a very quick walkthrough on how I did my shopping the other day using Grok Bot.
A week later, before I archive it
If you are looking at my screen and you see chief of staff archive, yes I archived my chief of staff. The context window with a lot going on gets really full. I duplicate the bot and I have a new chief of staff. Normally that is hidden. I unhid it just for this video. As soon as I am finished I will hide it again and keep the new one, because it has less context. It is starting fresh. Just a tip if you are into that.
This was Monday, August 17th. It is actually a week ago. That is why I was like, I better create this video, because I am just archiving the chief of staff and then I am going to lose all this context. Not lose it, but it is hard to go back. There is so much going on.
Pick up from the beer cart
I had the shopping cart already set up from the night before when I went to order the beers. That was Sunday night. I made a video about that. Then the next day I was like, okay, add Coke Zero cans, Fanta lemon cans to the order. Bang. On it. Adding Coke Zero and Fanta lemon cans to the Alcampo cart. I will not pay. Great. Add dried parsley and curry powder too.
Show me a screenshot of what is in the cart, because I am like, how do I know what is going on. So then it started showing me the screenshot. I have got the beer. I have got the Fanta and the Coke. This is looking pretty good. And it is kind of telling me what is in there. So that is great.
Voice notes while walking the twins
You have to picture this. I was actually walking with my mobile phone and using voice to speak into this. It is all on a computer here right now that I am showing you, but this was me on mobile.
I asked for the list. Maybe give me the list, because on mobile it was really hard to see the screenshot and scroll. Can you just give me the full list of what is in the cart so I can properly check the brands. I have never done this before. How do I trust it. How do I know this works. So it gave me the brands like this, everything, and I am like that looks pretty good.
I said I need to see a screen of the parsley and the curry please, because I perhaps wanted to see the grams. I was like oh which one. But if I had read it properly it said both Alcampo own brand, so it should have been fine. It gave me the screenshot and I was like yeah that is the one I normally buy. That is perfect.
Not a jar. Squeezable.
Then I was like add some mayonnaise. Adding mayo. And remember it is pinging me. So I just turn off my phone. I am continuing pushing the buggy with my twins in it. And then I get the chief of staff needs my attention, or it just sends me adding mayo. I will pick a standard jar and show you. Putting in Hellmann's classic 440 mil jar. I will send a shot when it is in.
I am like no, no, no. Not a jar. I have twins here. I like the squeezable one. So I got a squeezable bottle, not jar. Then I was like, oh, let's add a bag of ice. You just start remembering things as you are going along. And this is how I was doing my shopping. And this is why this is such a fantastic way.
A shopping bot
Then I was like, maybe we need a shopping bot for this, because my chief of staff is now getting full of all this stuff. This is another way. When you start to do everything with the chief of staff, start putting it then into its own kind of bot.
You can see now it all went into the shopping bot and then just messaged it back. I do not want to go too deep into it because we will get like, I did a big shop. But basically it was really nice.
Burgers, meat percent, Angus
I wanted to buy some burgers, like the ones from Galicia I think. I could not remember the name. This is something that I would normally have to really search the Alcampo shop for and find them. This is just such a great experience. It gave me a list of the ones and I was like ah yeah the Vaca Rubia, that is the really nice one, that is showing sold out. Damn.
I am going through here and I am able to basically just pick the burgers. It shows me these ones and I am able to see oh yeah which ones do I want. And this is the funny thing. I am like hang on I do not want to actually have to read the back of it. Normally in the supermarket I would read the back. I am really fussy about me. What is the actual percentage of meat on them and are there any Angus ones perhaps.
So it is checking the percentage of meat and whether there is an Angus pack. And then it is like the Galicia one is 91 percent plus rice flour water. I was like yeah, send me a shot. And it opens the Alcampo Angus tray. Shot coming. The Alcampo one looks good. That looks like a really good one. 95 percent meat. Perfect. 50 percent Angus. Yep, that looks good. I had three of them. So it added them.
This is a really nice shopping experience. Again, all through mobile.
Milk, juice, lettuce, a photo of the snacks
Add two packets of milk. The one I usually buy. I do not remember the one I buy. It is the one my husband drinks, like the whole milk one. So it is looking it up and it found the milk and it added that to the cart for me. Like that is fantastic.
I continued to add cheese. Should I have been talking to the chief of staff here. Should I have moved into the shopping bot and just continued my conversation there. Maybe. I do not know. I was just on mobile chatting to my chief of staff. It just made sense to keep the conversation going. If I wanted to be fully in that chat I could have just jumped there. But this way the chief of staff has the full context of everything that is going on. It does fill it up with a lot of context, but it also means chief of staff knows at every point where that shopping is and what stage it is at.
Can you add some apple juice. A couple of one liter cartons of apple juice. It has to be 100 percent apple juice. So it goes and finds them. And then the lettuce, it came back. Do you want which kind of lettuce do you want. And I am like, oh, baby lettuce. That is the one I wanted.
Then my kids were eating a snack and I literally took a photo. You can see there, there is the double buggy and there is the snack. And I went, boys really like these snacks. Can you add about 10 packets of these. It can be different colors or flavors or whatever, but 10 of these would be great. And then straight away, that is Smileat blueberry. I would never have, I mean yeah I could see it says Smileat there. Where does it say Triboo. See that just saves me so much time. Take a photo. Bang. Done.
Add some small packets of apple juice, no added sugar.
Captcha, then pay
Still the Alcampo captcha. This is the problem that I have sometimes. The captchas. I have to sometimes go in and clear the captchas and pretend I am a human. Well I am a human, but you know what I mean. Pretend the bot is me so I can continue. That is the annoying part.
Anyway this is basically as I kind of thought of more things. Let's add some olives. And we went through the whole process. I will not go into too much more because it is going to start showing my address and stuff like that. But basically I was able to then choose the time that I want the things to be delivered at. It was able to go ahead through the whole process. I did have to go in myself and actually just clear some captcha things. Then it was able to go ahead and do that payment on my behalf, with me overseeing everything and giving the final okay. Checking through the list. Looking at everything really really clearly. The prices. The whole works. I was like this is amazing. All this from my mobile phone while I was walking with the twins.
It probably took about two and a half to three hours, this whole process of shopping, because I am such a busy person. I never have time. So this was me literally like every time I had a second I am like oh yeah add this. And then next minute I am doing something with the boys and then I see I have a second free because they are on the swing and I am like add this. It takes seconds to just talk to your phone for a second.
This is what I mean by this is an amazing experience. Any working mother out there or very hardworking parent out there who just knows what it is like to try and get shopping done, it is hard. This was easy. This is the way I am going to do my shopping from now on.
And the great thing is now that the shopping bot knows my preferences. It should be able to remember, and also look from my previous shops if I stay with the one shop.
Cheaper than the others, and two for one
Once I had finished paying for it, I then said, okay now that we have paid for this, can you go and check the other local supermarkets that do home deliveries and check not the kind of local brands, but especially the named brands, and see if our shop is cheaper or more expensive compared to the others. That was cool. And it came back that where I shop is actually cheaper. So I am super impressed with that.
When I was ordering the beer I asked for some beer and it basically said there was a special offer on the Mahou 5 Estrellas 12-pack. It said do you want me to do the special offer two for one. And I was like oh my god yeah, if it is two for one, go for it. Like that is amazing. These are things that I would not have known, or I would not have had time to kind of look up.
Try it
Totally encourage you to give it a try for shopping. It has definitely been a fantastic experience. But seriously, do it properly. Do not use it to just go and shop. Do the whole thing as if you are just speaking to an assistant. You pick up your phone and you just say, add this to my shopping cart. Oh, add this. Now add this. Now add this. Randomly as you go throughout your day. By the end when you think I think I have remembered and done everything, bang, go pay. Done. Happy days.
Watch the video: Grok Bot does my shopping (while walking the twins)
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