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Case Study: Extracting Flash Deals & Price Drops from Costco, IGA, and Metro with Web Scraping

Discover how Actowiz Solutions scrapes real-time flash deals and price drops from Costco, IGA, and Metro to power smart retail insights and competitive strategies.

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Real-Time Regional Insights with Customizable E-commerce Dashboards

Overview

Retail competitiveness in the Canadian grocery market has intensified with the rise of e-commerce and consumer price sensitivity. Major retailers like Costco, IGA, and Metro frequently update product prices and flash deals. For businesses aiming to gain a competitive edge or provide price comparison tools to consumers, having real-time access to such data is crucial.

Actowiz Solutions built a robust web scraping solution to extract grocery product prices, flash deals, promotions, and availability from these multiple platforms in real-time. This case study outlines how we executed this at scale and delivered actionable insights.

Objective

To build a reliable and scalable solution that:

  • Extracts daily product prices, discounts, and flash deals from Costco, IGA, Metro, and Super C
  • Monitors sales trends across different categories (e.g., dairy, beverages, produce, frozen foods)
  • Delivers structured data via API or CSV for analytics and retail benchmarking

Challenges

1. Different site structures: Each retailer uses unique layouts and product page structures.

2. Frequent DOM changes: Promotions and banners often use dynamic HTML or JavaScript elements.

3. Anti-bot mechanisms: Rate limits, captchas, and session tokens blocked standard crawlers.

4. Flash sale timing: Deals often appear for a limited time or during off-hours, requiring scheduled scraping.

Solution by Actowiz Solutions

The-Client

Our engineering team designed a multi-layered web scraping system using custom scripts and headless browsers (like Puppeteer and Selenium). Key components included:

  • Dynamic HTML parsing using BeautifulSoup and lxml for static pages
  • JavaScript rendering via Puppeteer for pages with dynamic loading
  • Smart scheduling: Cron-based triggers set to run during peak promotional updates (e.g., 6 AM, 12 PM, 6 PM)
  • Proxy rotation & user-agent spoofing to bypass anti-bot restrictions
  • Error detection & fallback mechanisms to handle site downtimes

Data Fields Extracted

The-Client
Field Description
Product Name Title of the item
SKU/ID Unique identifier if available
Original Price Price before discount
Discounted Price Flash deal price
Discount % Calculated discount
Category Grocery section (e.g., dairy, snacks)
Store Name Costco, IGA, Metro, Super C
Deal Validity Duration or expiry of the offer
Availability In-stock or out-of-stock status
Date & Time When the data was scraped

Sample Data Extracted

Product Name,Original Price,Discounted Price,Discount %,Store,Category,Availability,Deal Validity,Date
Kirkland Almonds 1KG,17.99,14.99,16.7%,Costco,Nuts & Dry Fruits,In Stock,2 Days,2025-06-01
IGA Milk 2L,5.49,4.29,21.8%,IGA,Dairy,In Stock,Today Only,2025-06-01
Metro Frozen Pizza,8.99,6.99,22.2%,Metro,Frozen Foods,Out of Stock,While Supplies Last,2025-06-01

Delivery Mechanism

  • CSV Downloads for batch reports
  • Real-Time API endpoints for live retail platforms or dashboards
  • Google Sheets Integration for retail teams and merchandisers

Business Impact

1. Retail Analytics Company: Built a dashboard to compare daily prices across stores and highlight flash deals, increasing user engagement by 35%.

2. Grocery Delivery Startups: Used the scraped data to auto-adjust pricing on their own platforms in sync with major retailers.

3. Consumers Apps: Developers integrated our APIs into their apps to help users find the best grocery deals nearby.

Performance Highlights

  • Accuracy: > 98% product identification across multiple platforms
  • Update Frequency: 3x daily scraping across all stores
  • Coverage: 10,000+ SKUs tracked daily across 4 stores
  • Latency: < 3 minutes data delivery post-scraping via API

Tech Stack Used

  • Python (Scrapy, Requests, BeautifulSoup, Pandas)
  • Puppeteer & Selenium (for dynamic scraping)
  • Flask (API layer)
  • AWS Lambda (task orchestration)
  • MongoDB & PostgreSQL (data storage)

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Conclusion

With the grocery retail landscape becoming increasingly data-driven, Actowiz Solutions enables companies to stay ahead with real-time flash deal tracking and price intelligence. Our scalable web scraping infrastructure for Canadian grocery giants empowers clients with timely, accurate, and actionable insights to inform marketing, pricing, and inventory decisions.

From Raw Data to Real-Time Decisions

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Look Back Analyze historical data to discover patterns, anomalies, and shifts in customer behavior.

Find Insights Use AI to connect data points and uncover market changes. Meanwhile.

Move Forward Predict demand, price shifts, and future opportunities across geographies.

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Industry:

Coffee / Beverage / D2C

Result

2x Faster

Smarter product targeting

★★★★★

“Actowiz Solutions has been instrumental in optimizing our data scraping processes. Their services have provided us with valuable insights into our customer preferences, helping us stay ahead of the competition.”

Operations Manager, Beanly Coffee

✓ Competitive insights from multiple platforms

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Real Estate

Result

2x Faster

Real-time RERA insights for 20+ states

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“Actowiz Solutions provided exceptional RERA Website Data Scraping Solution Service across PAN India, ensuring we received accurate and up-to-date real estate data for our analysis.”

Data Analyst, Aditya Birla Group

✓ Boosted data acquisition speed by 3×

Industry:

Organic Grocery / FMCG

Result

Improved

competitive benchmarking

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“With Actowiz Solutions' data scraping, we’ve gained a clear edge in tracking product availability and pricing across various platforms. Their service has been a key to improving our market intelligence.”

Product Manager, 24Mantra Organic

✓ Real-time SKU-level tracking

Industry:

Quick Commerce

Result

2x Faster

Inventory Decisions

★★★★★

“Actowiz Solutions has greatly helped us monitor product availability from top three Quick Commerce brands. Their real-time data and accurate insights have streamlined our inventory management and decision-making process. Highly recommended!”

Aarav Shah, Senior Data Analyst, Mensa Brands

✓ 28% product availability accuracy

✓ Reduced OOS by 34% in 3 weeks

Industry:

Quick Commerce

Result

3x Faster

improvement in operational efficiency

★★★★★

“Actowiz Solutions' data scraping services have helped streamline our processes and improve our operational efficiency. Their expertise has provided us with actionable data to enhance our market positioning.”

Business Development Lead,Organic Tattva

✓ Weekly competitor pricing feeds

Industry:

Beverage / D2C

Result

Faster

Trend Detection

★★★★★

“The data scraping services offered by Actowiz Solutions have been crucial in refining our strategies. They have significantly improved our ability to analyze and respond to market trends quickly.”

Marketing Director, Sleepyowl Coffee

Boosted marketing responsiveness

Industry:

Quick Commerce

Result

Enhanced

stock tracking across SKUs

★★★★★

“Actowiz Solutions provided accurate Product Availability and Ranking Data Collection from 3 Quick Commerce Applications, improving our product visibility and stock management.”

Growth Analyst, TheBakersDozen.in

✓ Improved rank visibility of top products

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