The independent food businesses in your neighborhood: independent grocery stores, farmers, butchers, fishmongers, tortillerías, carnicerías, halal markets, bakeries, and the people you already see at the farmers market. Independent grocers matter most of all — a neighborhood store where you could do an entire week's shop at their own shelf prices, with no chain in the middle and nobody's algorithm deciding what gets stocked. Not a category we scraped off a map. We go and meet them, one at a time, and we don't list anyone whose products and prices we can't stand behind.

No. The price the vendor charges in their own store is the price you'll see in the app. Not the price plus a little, not a "convenience adjustment." We'll make our money the way we say we do: a small commission the vendor pays us, and customer subscriptions. Never from quietly raising what you pay for food.

After delivery is running. The marketplace only works if there's someone to bring the food, so we're building it in that order rather than launching two hard things at once. Charlotte and Cincinnati first, same as delivery, and we'll say so here the moment there's a date worth trusting.

That's the plan, and it's the reason a Runner shops your order rather than a store packing it. One trip, several stops, one delivery — the bread from the bakery and the meat from the butcher arriving together instead of on three different afternoons.

We visit in person. We look at quality, at how they handle food, at whether they can be relied on week after week, and at whether they fit the neighborhoods we're serving — including whether they can serve customers in Spanish, because a lot of our best vendors will. Then we do the unglamorous part: getting their products and prices into the app accurately, which is our job rather than theirs. No listing fee, no monthly fee, no charge to be there — vendors pay a small commission only when they actually sell something.

Start at the vendors page — there's a "Start selling" link in the For Business section of the footer — or email vendors@grocerylistplus.com and a person will write back. We're onboarding Charlotte and Cincinnati first, but tell us where you are anyway. Where we go next depends on which neighborhoods have vendors worth showing up for.

Each vendor stocks their store however they see fit — their own farms, regional suppliers, family recipes, whatever they've always done. We don't source food and we don't tell anyone what to carry. What we do is show you their actual inventory and get it to your door, along with whatever they tell us about where it came from.