Why choose Haystack over Google, ChatGPT, or Amazon when searching for holiday gifts?
Purpose-built tool: Google and ChatGPT are great tools, but they aren’t built to help you discover local options. We’ve tested the same searches across platforms, and Haystack consistently made it faster and easier to find what you want from independently owned stores you know and love. Each store’s delivery options are clearly listed, and many stores offer same day or next day delivery. And we’re offering free 2-day delivery through the holidays for all Haystack stores - sign up before it’s too late!
Increased accuracy and efficiency: With Google and ChatGPT, product locations are often just guesses, leading you through multiple websites or straight to big-box stores, not the small businesses that make our communities special. Haystack's product listings are taken directly from the local stores' websites and it’s easy to click through to their sites to make purchases.
Protect our community: Shopping locally keeps your dollars in the community. It helps keep neighbourhood shops open, prevents empty storefronts, and creates jobs for our neighbours. Amazon can't do that, and its prices can even be higher due to complex global shipping.
On Haystack, every shop is a small, independently owned business, usually with three locations or fewer. You can browse, compare prices, and shop confidently, all in one place.
We built Haystack because we believe in the power of local. We are committed to helping small businesses thrive with the right technology behind them. All the large players have a robust arsenal of technologies making it easy for them to compete and for shoppers to shop. Why shouldn’t local shopping be the same?
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