On the road, running low on petrol, and want to take advantage of those Everyday Rewards discounts you’ve stored up? The Woolworths Petrol site lets you find the nearest Caltex/Woolworths branch.
The search is pretty much what you’d expect: enter an address or postcode and the nearest options show up on a map. Woolworths claims the site is mobile-friendly, offering a small-screen friendly rendering on portable devices. With that said, it failed to work properly on my BlackBerry, which isn’t exactly an uncommon choice. If you’re looking for the cheapest fuel rather than a particular brand, check out Google’s Petrol Price Tracker.
Phil
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 1:17 PMFailed on my BlackBerry also. Instant disappointment. Do they not test these apps?
Phil
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 1:30 AMActually, it seems to work just fine now..weird
Jeffrey
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 2:52 PMWhy not try it for yourself: http://www.woolworthspetrol.com on the iPhone. Worked first go for me.
Jeffrey
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 2:55 PMSorry: http://www.woolworthpetrol.com.au
vik
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 1:50 PMUmmm, this is news? Doesn’t just about every major store with a website include a ‘find your nearest store’ button? What about listing their major competitor’s site as well, in the interests of unbiased reporting?
Angus Kidman
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 3:35 PMThe noteworthy point was the mobile friendliness, which is rather less common — albeit somewhat incomplete at this point.
vik
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 11:46 AMSo you report on a website which claims to be mobile friendly, but in fact isn’t? Did you try coles’ website on a blackberry to compare?
Still doesn’t seem to quite cut it as either news or unbiased to me…
Tim
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 2:39 PMEveryone does this don’t they ?
FIND NEAREST STORE ?
What I really want these companies to do is create and maintain a downloadable POI file that I can add to my GPS with ALL their locations. All they need to do is one for TomTom / Navman / Garmin and that’s 95% of GPS users.
Roy Wallace
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 9:48 PMNo, what we really need is for these companies to release the raw data with a CC-BY license, so it can be imported into the OpenStreetMap database – http://www.openstreetmap.org/ (and, in turn, be used for any multitude of things, including conversion to TomTom/Navman/Garmin POI files, etc.)
vik
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 11:47 AMIndeed, Coles Express’ website has a POI file for your GPS.
Max
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 9:41 AMWorked on my iPhone straight away
Phil
Monday, February 1, 2010 at 4:20 PMI can verify this site does work on the latest version of the blakberry os and on nokia s60.
Tim
Monday, February 15, 2010 at 3:49 PMOn reflection i think that free turn by turn navigation in Google maps will give rise to more of these applications in the future.
A central repository of openly available information would be useful for developers wanting to create mash up applications that utilize these data sets.
Having said that, companies may understandably wish to retain control of access to their data.
Henry Adams
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 7:36 AMI don’t understand this article this website is clearly designed for the iPhone, and besides don’t iPhones dominate mobile browsing?
Angus Kidman
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 7:46 AMWoolworths promoted it as a general mobile site, not an iPhone-specific one.