Tulsa - You likely know you can comparison shop stores and brands online to find your best buy. Now for the first time, you will soon be able to compare deals when it comes to grocery stores -- and not just for one item on your list.

A local company will take your individual shopping list and show you where to get the best deal.

Gerald Buckley has big ideas, most of which are posted on the walls of his office. They keep him focused on the prize -- his website called Grocio.com -- where you can actually comparison shop grocery stores.

How did he come up with the idea?

"It was out of need," Buckley says. "We had this expensive grocery bill and I thought there has to be a solution to this."

Gerald quickly learned there was comparison shopping for everything BUT groceries. And, it's no wonder -- there are about 36-thousand grocery stores nationwide, each with 120-thousand items. But, he finally figured it out and Grocio.com will be up and running by the end of the month.

"Type in your grocery list, it tells you the least expensive checkout for those grocery items."

Gerald's idea won the Entrepreneurial Spirit Award last year here in Tulsa. That gave him money, a downtown office and business coaching. Customers are already signing up for Grocio.com all over the country because the site does more than comparison shop.

"We something very cool. We match digital coupons to the grocery list. So, you don't have to go out and find all of these things, we do all of that hard work for you."

Combine those digital coupons from the ones in the paper and you've got big savings. And, saving money is how Gerald makes money.

"Every time we distribute, say a pop tart coupon, to you, we are paid, kind of like Google AdSense. We get a penny or two or three for distributing the coupons to you. So, it's not on redemption, it's just that we've passed that coupon along to you."

The best part? The service is free.

On The Net:
www.grocio.com

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