Anyone else notice the change on Wine Searcher for location filter? You used to be able to search by country, “continent”, and within US, then by state; along with a checkbox option for shipping within the state selected.
Now it’s just some sort of binary option - your “current location” (I would prefer WS to not know my location) and Worldwide.
Seems like a weird change to vastly limit the location search parameters like this. Sometimes I would just like to search within my state for essentially local pickup/delivery.
I see it with a location box, where you can put where you want to search.
Below that are options for “Current location (enable location services)” or worldwide. No problem for me searching NY .
You can still use the old locations even though it looks like it only gives you certain options. For example, I live in Ohio and WS gives me the option of only USA (that ship to Ohio) or world wide pricing. But, I clicked change and typed in USA without limiting it to Ohio, and WS took that and it works like the old system.
For Europe now you cannot filter “European Union” but just “Europe” which includes the UK. This is actually very annoying because since Brexit importing wine from the UK is both difficult (if possible at all) and expensive.
This is a terrible change as far as user experience goes, and honestly makes the site/app nearly useless for me. I often want to limit my search to local retailers for pickup (i.e. no shipping) but I don’t think that’s possible anymore. I sent feedback when this came to the mobile app (to no avail) and just did it again now that it’s site-wide. But I doubt it’ll persuade them to think of their users.
I also wonder how it’ll impact retailers who focus on brick & mortar sales vs shipping. I don’t know anything about the relationship between shops and W-S, but I assume some if not most pay a fee (to varying degrees) for listing and visibility. With shipping becoming the default result I don’t see why local-focused retailers would see value in giving W-S access to their data…
yes this was very frustrating to me also. I eventually figured it out. when will tech people realize their genius upgrades are just frustrating normal customers ?
I’m a retailer and haven’t paid any sort of listing fee for years. Since I don’t compete on pricing, it wasn’t worth it. But my items would still show up in all searchers by subscribers and to non-subscriberes if the item wasn’t available at more than, say, five places.
But as a retailer, I used the site to check prices on nearby stores, just to make sure I was competitive. With this new “improved” search function, I can no longer do that, because I really only care about brick and mortar in my state or just across the boarder.
Anyway, long way of saying, yes, it’s changed, it sucks, and I won’t be resubscribing because it’s entirely useless to me based on this new search function.
I just noticed today that they fixed this. There’s a “Only show sellers in my state” (desktop and mobile) which helps us in the United States. Unfortunately, seems like differentiating between UK/Europe might still be an issue.
