Macworld 2010: Twicular's Grocery Pal

When I was young, my mother spent Sunday mornings with grocery store flyers, a pen, and a pad of paper. Once she had identified the best weekly deals, she'd send my dad to buy some items from Grocery Store A, some from Store B and so on.

Barclay Jiang has devised a convenient, contemporary solution to the same problem. His free app for the iPhone and iPod touch, Grocery Pal, uses GPS (or Wi-Fi location) to find all of the grocery stores in your area (you can adjust the range of search) and downloads the current sales. From there, you can generate a shopping list, sort the results by store and hit the road. It saves a lot of time and is quite convenient.

We spoke with Barclay at our booth at Macworld Expo about the app, his inspiration and his thoughts on the show. Check out the video below for the full run-down, or grab Grocery Pal from the App Store.