A personal grocer that remembers the household.
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Penny is a personal grocer with an ongoing memory of the household. It remembers what that household buys, the names people use for things, and the rhythm those items tend to run out on. So when it is time to shop, the work starts from what happened last time — not from a blank list.
A grocery list starts from zero. Penny starts from what your household already did, and what it is likely to need next.
In a shopping conversation, Penny brings forward the things that may be due: items running low, ones that have lapsed since they were last bought, what is in season, and whatever else is relevant to the household. It does this when you talk with it — it does not start a conversation on its own.
From there you react. Confirm the things you want, decline the ones you don’t, correct a guess, or add something Penny didn’t mention. You are never handed a finished list and told to accept it whole.
Where a choice between products would actually help, Penny compares honest options across the stores set up for the household. Where comparison adds nothing, it just records what you asked for.
Before anything moves, Penny reads the assembled basket back in your words, grouped by kind of thing, with a rough total. Nothing is ordered until you say yes. Only after that clear approval does Penny route the items and prepare the handoff to whoever places the orders. It does not complete checkout for you.
Catalog search is limited to the stores configured for the household and currently available: Ingles, Kroger, and Walmart, whichever you have and whichever are available. Penny does not imply coverage beyond those.
Where it can read the package size from the product name, it shows the unit price; where it cannot, it leaves that out rather than guess. When at least two buyable options share the same unit, Penny marks the cheaper one as the best value. A lone product, something the store does not carry, or an out-of-stock item never gets that note — there is nothing honest to compare it against.
The answer comes back as a short list of up to four text cards: the product name, its price, the unit price where it applies, a best-value note where it earns one, and a product link when one exists — with no product images, just the facts at a glance.
Pickup. Penny shows whether an item is in stock at your store or not carried there.
Delivery. Penny compares the prices Kroger lists for each item.
Delivery. Penny flags each item as in stock or temporarily out.
Penny’s Amazon catalog work is being developed as part of an application to Amazon’s affiliate program. Amazon search and pricing are not live in Penny today; current comparisons still come from the Ingles, Kroger, and Walmart stores set up for the household.
This page uses no cookies, no analytics, and no third-party trackers. To do its work, Penny stores your pantry items, the store prices it compares, and your shopping and order history.