bold idea
Reduce grocery costs for households enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by organizing SNAP-participating neighbors to buy collectively, sharing delivery efforts and helping unlock cost-effective wholesale pricing.
organization overview
Groupr is tackling the rising cost of groceries for working-class families. The organization helps households using SNAP buy groceries together so they can unlock wholesale prices and coordinated delivery. Groupr is pioneering a new model of neighborhood-based group buying that turns everyday shopping into collective purchasing power. Its goal is to make healthy groceries consistently affordable for millions of families while helping grocers serve underserved communities more efficiently.
Personal Bio
Anthony Grullon is the founder and chief executive officer of Groupr. Growing up in a household that used food stamps, he developed an early understanding of the barriers many families face when trying to access affordable, healthy food. Anthony’s work focuses on building technology and community-driven systems that expand economic opportunity for underserved communities. Before founding Groupr, he founded Forage, a venture capital-backed startup that helped enable the use of food stamps in online commerce, expanding access to groceries for millions of households. Anthony holds a BS in engineering from The College of New Jersey and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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