ERCOT vs Supermercado Thriftway
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ERCOT
Monitor real-time power grid conditions and receive important news and alerts. Customize your home screen with interactive dashboards for supply, demand, fuel mix, and wholesale prices. Stay informed about grid status and upcoming meetings.
- Real-time grid monitoring
- Customizable home screen
- Interactive dashboards
- Supply and demand tracking
- Fuel mix information
- Wholesale price data
- News and alerts
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The ERCOT app allows you to monitor real-time power grid conditions and stay updated with important news and alerts from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). App features include: Informative welcome screens A customizable home screen: Choose which dashboards you want to see ERCOT’s most popular interactive dashboards: Grid Conditions, Supply and Demand, Fuel Mix, and System-Wide (Wholesale) Prices The meeting calendar for the upcoming week The ability to opt-in for TXANS and EEA alerts
Supermercado Thriftway
This app allows loyal customers to shop online, access digital coupons, and earn rewards easily. It simplifies saving money on every purchase by consolidating all offers and loyalty benefits in one convenient mobile location.
- Online shopping
- Digital coupons
- Loyalty rewards
- In-store purchase scanning
- Coupon aggregation
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The Super Mercado Thriftway app is the best way for our loyal customers to shop online, use digital coupons, and earn rewards. Helping them save every time they shop! The Super Mercado Thriftway app puts it all in one place and just a click away! It’s as simple as 1, 2, & 3: Get the Super Mercado Thriftway app. Add digital coupons and specials to your list in the Super Mercado Thriftway app, and Present your digital loyalty card to the cashier to scan at the register for in-store purchase. With the Super Mercado Thriftway app customers can claim as many digital coupons as they want with one simple scan! No more searching through newspapers and printing out emails, the Super Mercado Thriftway app brings all the rewards to their mobile device!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Supermercado Thriftway at 100% against ERCOT's 39%. Supermercado Thriftway also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.8). ERCOT's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (115 vs 2). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Supermercado Thriftway holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ERCOT has 115 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of ERCOT's written reviews are positive against 100% of Supermercado Thriftway's.
| Parameter | ERCOT | Supermercado Thriftway |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (115 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 115 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ERCOT | J B Claiborne, INC |
Customer experience
ERCOT
Supermercado Thriftway
Bugs and requests
ERCOT
Reported bugs
12 issues- App crashes constantly or spins indefinitely
- White ghost text on app and browser
- New Release 7.3.6 throws constant 403 errors
- App crashes upon launch
- App opens and crashes after updates
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- App crashes after last update, won't open
- App just closes down after update
- Inaccurate graphs during Feb 2021 outage
- Privacy issue: app pastes from messages
- Lost current demand number in new release
- Chart with no numbers on vertical axis
- Turrible system conditions display
Requested features
25 requests- Improve welcome screen navigation
- Add custom alert notifications (prices, capacity)
- Increase font size or allow adjustment
- Provide history view
- Show sources of energy
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- Show renewable energy generation
- See historical data for comparison
- Add gridlines on chart axes
- Add more gridlines on time axis
- Provide current demand number
- Show real-time power production breakdown (nuclear, gas, coal, wind, solar)
- Show trends of historical data
- Show prices for 5min intervals
- Show forecasted wind and actual wind output on a chart
- Show nodal pricing points
- Add a simple DB query function for source/sink of PTPs
- List scheduled outages and line work
- List DA congestion costs
- Provide system conditions
- Offer historic views beyond 1 day
- Offer forecast conditions for next 30 days
- Provide at least two push notification options (critical alert)
- Share outage data from utility companies/cooperatives
- Add system wide alerts
- Add a design overhaul for prettier delivery
Supermercado Thriftway
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ERCOT
No in-app purchases
Supermercado Thriftway
No in-app purchases
Questions
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