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Price Watch

Get told when the price actually drops

Set a watch on something you buy often and stop checking flyers. An email arrives when a real advertised price beats the provincial average or the target you chose.

Available onAll plans

What you get

Benchmarked, not just cheaper

A watch fires when a flyer price beats the Statistics Canada average retail price for that product in your province, which is a real reference point rather than last week’s tag.

Or your own target

Name the price you would happily pay and get told when it appears, however the benchmark is moving.

Email, not another feed

Alerts arrive in your inbox. There is nothing to check daily, which is rather the point of a watch.

Costs no Maples

The verdict is arithmetic over flyer rows and published figures, with no AI in it, so nothing is metered. Plans differ on how many watches you can keep active.

How it works

  1. Pick a product

    From a deal, your purchase history, or a receipt you scanned.

  2. Set the trigger

    Leave it on the provincial benchmark, or name your own target price.

  3. Wait for the email

    When a flyer beats the trigger, you hear about it while the flyer is still live.

Why the benchmark is a public figure

Statistics Canada publishes average retail prices by product and province. Using that as the reference means "this is a good price" is a claim you can check against a public dataset instead of a number the app made up about its own deal quality. It also means a watch does not fire simply because a store raised a price last month and lowered it again, which is the failure mode of comparing a price only against its own recent history.

Common questions

  • How many watches can I have?

    Every plan can keep watches active, and the cap is what scales with the plan. Paused watches do not count toward it, so you never have to delete history to make room.

  • Does a price watch use Maples?

    No. Deciding whether a price beats the benchmark is arithmetic over flyer data and published Statistics Canada figures, with no AI call, so there is nothing to meter.

  • What counts as a good price?

    By default, a flyer price below the Statistics Canada average retail price for that product in your province. You can override that with a specific target price of your own.

  • How will I be notified?

    By email, sent when a matching flyer price is found. You can pause or delete a watch at any time, and pausing keeps it out of your active count.

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Optional: the first 3 characters of your postal code get you your own store’s flyer prices in the weekly deals email.

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MapleTrack provides planning estimates, not financial, tax, or legal advice. Sales tax figures track published CRA and Revenu Quebec rates; the income tax estimator is an estimate, never a filing. Always confirm prices in-store.

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