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A bulls-eye for bargains

Posted by Hiawatha Bray  March 9, 2013 10:22 PM
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Arro shopping app
Free at Apple App Store

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With so many shopping apps available, is there room for another? The creators of Arro say yes, because their new app is so different from most others. Arro uses the collective experience of thousands of other shoppers to point you to high-quality choices.

For now, you can use Arro only to shop in a handful of categories--electronics, baby care products, fitness gear, personal care items like makeup, and home appliances. Pick a category and go shopping for, say, a camera. Arro asks you to narrow down your choice by choosing the features that matter most to you--ease of use, camera size and price, for instance. Touch “find” and you get a top 10 list of cameras that come close to meeting your standards, based on product reviews posted by consumers. You also get links to online retailers like Amazon and Best Buy, where you can purchase the camera.

Arro certainly isn’t the most comprehensive of shopping apps. But to quickly learn what shoppers are saying about products that may interest you, Arro is an excellent choice.

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Hiawatha Bray

Hiawatha Bray

Hiawatha is a business reporter and columnist covering the high-tech industry for the Boston Globe business section. His weekly Tech Lab gadgets and software reviews appear in the Globe every Thursday.

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