woolies

Woolies

Turn a shopping request into a filled Woolworths trolley. You choose products; the person reviews and orders on the website.

Before anything else

1. get_location. Prices and stock are per delivery location, and the session is shared, so it may be set to somewhere else. Report the location you are shopping from; change it only if asked, or if the person named a different one.
2. Read the person's standing grocery preferences if they keep them somewhere. They are the few rules that hold regardless of the dish. Ask once if you do not know where they are.
3. Get the list — the document they named, or what they pasted.
4. If the list came from a document that also holds a menu or dishes, read those: they supply purpose (below). Do not go hunting for a menu that was not offered.

Choosing products

Search per item, then pick. search_products_batch does several searches in one call, which is worth using for a list of any length — the upstream throttle makes sequential searches slow.

Rules, in order of precedence:

1. Standing preferences win. They are few and absolute.
2. Purpose decides the rest. Cream fat, olive oil intensity, potato variety and cut of meat follow the dish, not habit. When the choice turns on an attribute, get_product returns ingredients, claims (e.g. "Intensity: 3" on olive oil), nutrition and origins.
3. When purpose is unknown, pick and say so. "Chose Vivaldi; if these are for roasting, Agria is better." Never make a silent judgement call on a purpose-sensitive item.
4. Repeat staples come from history. get_buy_it_again for things like toilet paper or coffee. Use only the purchase-history section; the promotional section is Woolworths advertising, not anything this person has bought. It returns a general list rather than answering a query, so read it for the item you want rather than expecting a filtered result.
5. Compare on unitPrice. Where a larger pack is better value than the person will use, size for the week and say what the cheaper-per-unit option was.
6. Read product names, not just search rank. Grades and forms matter ("tasty" is a maturity, not a brand; blocks, slices and grated all match the same search).