I built this for one shopping list

I am not a grocer. I am the person who gets sent to the shop.

Somewhere in a run of Saturday mornings I noticed the same five-kilo bag of basmati priced eleven dollars at one Indian grocer and seventeen at another, ten minutes apart — and that the atta we actually cook with was cheapest at the shop I only ever visited for paneer. Every week I was making the same small decisions from memory, and getting them wrong.

The annoying part was not the driving. It was that nothing told me the truth. The big comparison sites compare the big supermarkets, which is not where most of us buy atta, dal and ghee. The little grocers have real prices online but no way to see each other. So the answer to “where is it cheapest this week” was a browser with eleven tabs open.

So I built the one thing I wanted on a Saturday morning: type “basmati rice 5kg”, see every Indian grocer that delivers to my suburb side by side, with the actual price, the actual pack size, and the price per kilo — so a 5kg bag and a 10kg bag can finally be compared honestly.

The first version was for one shopping list. It still is. My wife writes the list; I would rather spend the hour this saves doing something with her than doing laps of three car parks. Everything else — the ten shops, the city selector, the arithmetic — exists to make that one search fast and truthful.

That is also why the rules here are boring on purpose. No shop pays to rank higher. No shop is hidden because it is inconvenient. No price is shown unless it came from the shop's own catalogue during that search. If a price looks wrong, tell me and I will fix it — usually the same day.