Grocery Routes is not a coupon app, a delivery app, or a list app. It is a price-intelligence engine that takes your normal list and routes each item to the cheapest shelf across every store you already shop at.
Drop your zip code on the onboarding screen. Tap which stores you're willing to go to — most people pick 2 to 4. That's it. You'll only ever see those stores in results.
Search and add every item you plan to buy. Whole milk. Eggs. Chicken breast. Coffee. Whatever's on the fridge list. Autocomplete makes it fast — a typical list takes under three minutes.
The engine checks every item at every store you selected and solves for the lowest grand total. You get a ranked store-by-store breakdown — who wins what, and what you saved.
Your list is grouped by store. Tap items to cross them off as you grab them. Mark the trip complete and your savings go to the dashboard — every dollar you didn't overpay, tracked.
We normalize product names across stores so "whole milk, 1 gal" at Ralphs and "Vitamin D whole milk, gallon" at Aldi are treated as the same line item. Different brand, same nutrition bucket — you're compared fairly.
For each item we pick the store with the lowest per-unit price out of the stores you chose. The total is the sum — simple, transparent, and always the cheapest possible trip for your set.
Publicly available store feeds and curated updates. Ralphs and Vons come from their national chains. Trader Joe's is curated weekly. Aldi and Sprouts refresh daily-to-weekly.
No coupons, no loyalty-locked prices, no affiliate upcharges, no delivery markups. If the price you see in the app doesn't match the shelf, it's a bug we fix — not a margin we keep.