11 Best Grocery Shopping Apps to Make Your Grocery Run Easier

Taste of Home ^ | 1/13/25 | Lauren Pahmeier

[DallasBiff]

It’s the weekly errand we all love to hate: grocery shopping. From not being able to find a perfectly ripe avocado to juggling your list, keys and coffee while simultaneously pushing a cart, it can be a tough task to tackle.

But fortunately, there’s an app for that, and we’ve rounded up our top 12 tech faves below. Thanks to these shopping apps, you can say goodbye to that dreaded moment when you get to the store and realize you left your list at home. (We’ve all been there!)

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: apps; grocery; luddite

[lefty-lie-spy]

Who the hell lives like that? If I need something, I just go out and buy it when I want it or need it. Five to 60 minutes at the most to get anything I might want to buy.

I suppose some locations make this ease impossible, but is it really needed to have an anchor of an app to grocery shop?

Go shopping like a Neanderthal - decide on a thing, find it, buy it, take it home.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I buy paper products and cleaning supplies from big box stores. For food, I have the Krogers app for weekly specials. Publix is a better store with better product, and what I can’t buy at Krogers I buy at Publix.

[Steve_Seattle1]

This smart phone mania, the need for an “app” to do everything, has almost become a cult.

[goodnesswins]

We have a large whiteboard on a kitchen sidewall...lptsa stuff, appointments, garden reminders, to do, etc. I keep track of needed grocery items by category, erasing last weeks, adding this weeks. Then, I take a picture and have it on my phone when I shop. Easy peasy.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You are at least partly right but so am I sadly. I am not sure if it is because parents don't keep their kids with them while they do things or what but a good number of young people seem to be mostly clueless about the basics of life.

The other day I had to explain to a young home owner what a sacrifice rod was in a hot water heater. This is not plumbing. This is very basic home maintenance. Like cleaning out the gutters. Thankfully they did know about that one.

[MayflowerMadam]

We have a divide-and conquer method.

I have our grocery list in the computer as a Word document. Landscape. The left side are typical items that I shop for; the left side is DH’s.

I print our a sheet, and through the week we check off stuff we need. At the store, I tear it in half, he gets his stuff, I get mine, and we meet at the checkout lane. Saves time.

[ridesthemiles]

JUGGLING YOUR KEYS/COFFEE & LIST ALL AT ONCE?

SIT DOWN-—DRINK THE DAMN COFFEE -—LIKE YOU MIGHT HAVE SOME MANNERS

PUT YOUR KEYS INTO YOUR POCKET.

USE YOUR LIST FOR EFFICIENCY.

DO WE HAVE TO HAVE “REMEDIAL SHOPPING COURSES” FOR TODAY’S IDIOTS ALSO?????

[ridesthemiles]

I HAVE A LAND LINE & A $20 PHONE.

CAN STILL WRITE DOWN SHOPPING LISTS-—AT 85 +++

[ridesthemiles]

WORSE-—IT IS A SELF INDUCED HANDICAP

[thecodont]

I use an app called Wife. It includes reminders and text notifications.

LOL

[KitJ]

"Too many ads for stuff I don’t want or need. And the ads go on and on and force you to listen to the whole thing before you can close them. I suppose you can pay to go “ad free”, but I’m too cheap for that."

Well played. I am rolling!

[thecodont]

And I hand write a shopping list to take with me after reading the ad myself.

I see this often when grocery shopping. People read off of paper lists (some use their phones) as they browse the aisles. Sometimes they leave the paper list behind in the shopping cart.

[ro_dreaming]

I use HEB or Kroger click list to order my groceries, then I go the next day, park in the lot and have someone bring the groceries and load them into my truck.

I tip usually around $5.00 - but if my list if over $300, I tip $10.00.

[FamiliarFace]

Good for you!

As long as I’m writing items down, instead of keeping them in my head, I make fewer mistakes.

[FreedomPoster]

>When a product is “free,” then YOU are the product.

Worth saying again.

Wife and I have a shared page in iCloud Notes, so can see it and edit it on our phones, iPads, and my Mac Mini. When in store, erase items as I pick up. Simple, and no one is mining that data.