New App Finds Lowest Prices for Groceries

Every year more than 300 billion coupons are printed and delivered to consumers across the country. But according to two local men, hardly any of them are actually redeemed.

Nobody had created a system to help the everyday consumer easily and painlessly save big money on groceries,” said Kevin Young, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of SaveOn!, an app that takes your grocery list and finds the lowest available prices in local stores.

On Tuesday, the SaveOn app became available in Apple’s App Store.

Currently grocery store data is limited to Acme, ShopRite and Wegmans stores in the King of Prussia, West Chester and Warrington areas. 

Young and Co-Founder and CEO Aaron L. Wadell met in Wayne, PA, where their office is currently located.  In his work with Proctor and Gamble and The Campbell Soup Company, “we were always looking for a way to reach the consumer… coupons, advertising and sales presented inefficiencies and barriers of reaching the consumer,” Wadell told Patch.

How it works:

App users pick their preferred store or stores, make a shopping list and tap the “SaveOn!” button. That triggers the app to start “a proprietary algorithm that accesses a database of information on item pricing, promotional offers, coupons and shopper preferences.  This massive repository calculates which items have the lowest overall prices based on all of the available pricing and promotional offers,” according to a press release.

Watch a television news report on the new app by clicking here.