The best food & beverage apps

Kroger

Kroger is the largest supermarket operator in the United States, running around 2,700 stores under banners including Kroger, Ralphs, Fred Meyer, King Soopers, and Fry's. The company combines grocery retail with pharmacy, fuel centres, and an extensive own-brand range, and has invested heavily in delivery and pickup.

Tesco

Tesco is the UK's largest supermarket chain, selling groceries, household goods, clothing, and general merchandise through thousands of stores from Express convenience shops to Extra superstores. Its Clubcard loyalty scheme is among the most established in British retail, offering members lower shelf prices as well as points.

ShopRite

ShopRite is a US supermarket cooperative operating around 280 stores across the north-eastern states, owned by the families who run its individual locations. That cooperative structure gives stores unusual local autonomy over range and pricing, and the chain is known for its Price Plus club card and own-brand Bowl & Basket and Wholesome Pantry lines.

Albertsons

Albertsons is one of the largest grocery operators in the United States, running around 2,200 stores under banners including Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Acme, and Shaw's. The business pairs supermarkets with in-store pharmacies and fuel stations, and has built out delivery and pickup across most of its footprint.

Jewel-Osco

Jewel-Osco is a Chicago-area supermarket chain, part of the Albertsons group, combining a full grocery store with an in-store pharmacy. The banner has served the Midwest since 1899 and runs close to 190 stores across Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa. It offers home delivery alongside its DriveUp & Go curbside pickup service, and its Schedule & Save programme automates the household essentials customers reorder on the same cycle every month.

Thrive Market

Thrive Market is an American online grocer selling organic and natural food, household, and wellness products on a membership model. Members pay an annual fee for below-retail pricing, and the business filters its catalogue by diet — paleo, keto, gluten-free, vegan — rather than by aisle.

ASDA

ASDA is one of the UK's largest supermarket chains, selling groceries, clothing through its George label, and general merchandise across hundreds of superstores and convenience shops. The business competes primarily on price against the discounters, and pairs its stores with a substantial online grocery delivery operation.

Shaw's

Shaw's is a New England supermarket chain, part of the Albertsons group, trading since 1860 and among the oldest continuously operating grocers in the United States. The stores cover groceries and pharmacy across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, with home delivery and DriveUp & Go curbside pickup alongside the in-store business. Its Schedule & Save programme handles the household repeats on a fixed cycle.

Meijer

Meijer is a Midwestern American supercentre chain, widely credited with inventing the format by combining a full grocery store with general merchandise under one roof. The family-owned business operates around 500 stores across six states, selling food, clothing, electronics, pharmacy, toys, and home goods together — a weekly shop and a department store trip in the same visit.

ALDI

ALDI is a German discount supermarket chain operating thousands of stores worldwide, built on a deliberately limited range of mostly own-brand products sold at low prices. The model strips out cost everywhere — small stores, products sold from shipping cartons, a tight assortment — and has made it one of the fastest-growing grocers in the US and UK.

Tom Thumb

Tom Thumb is a Texas supermarket chain, part of the Albertsons group, operating primarily across the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The stores combine groceries with pharmacy and fuel, so a single loyalty account covers the weekly shop, prescriptions, and points off at the pump. The chain offers home delivery alongside DriveUp & Go curbside pickup, and has traded in North Texas under the Tom Thumb name since the 1940s.

Stop & Shop

Stop & Shop is a supermarket chain across the northeastern US, trading since 1914 and owned by the Dutch-Belgian group Ahold Delhaize. The business runs several hundred stores from New England down to New Jersey, with a substantial online grocery operation covering delivery and pickup. Its Go Rewards programme converts spending into points redeemable against groceries or fuel, and applies whether the order is placed online or scanned at a checkout.

King Soopers

King Soopers is a Colorado supermarket chain and one of Kroger's regional banners, selling groceries, fresh produce, meat and bakery, household goods, and pharmacy items across stores throughout Colorado and Wyoming, with fuel centres attached to many locations. The chain competes on everyday value through weekly ads, digital coupons, and a fuel points programme that converts grocery spending into savings at the pump.

Nespresso

Nespresso is a premium coffee brand offering capsules, machines, and accessories, known for its subscription-style replenishment and membership club. Convenient, premium coffee at home defines it. The brand sells directly to consumers online, in stores, and through its app.

Sprouts Farmers Market

Sprouts Farmers Market is an American grocery chain focused on fresh, natural, and organic food, with more than 400 stores. The format is built around produce and a large vitamins and supplements department, with an own-brand range that accounts for a substantial share of sales — a health-led grocer rather than a full-line supermarket.

Lou Malnati's Pizzeria

Lou Malnati's is the oldest family name in Chicago-style pizza, serving its signature deep dish and tavern-style thin crust from a made-from-scratch family recipe refined since 1971. The menu has grown well past pizza to salads, pasta, sandwiches, wings, appetisers, and desserts, served across its Chicago-area restaurants, with the brand also shipping its pizzas nationwide.

Ocado

Ocado is a British online-only supermarket, operating without shops from highly automated warehouses. The business has no store estate at all — orders are picked by robots in vast fulfilment centres — and it licenses that technology to grocers worldwide alongside running its own retail operation.

Blue Apron

Blue Apron is a pioneering direct-to-consumer meal brand that has shipped more than 530 million meal kits, pairing chef-designed recipes with fresh, pre-portioned ingredients — now expanded to pre-made and minimal-prep options. Once subscription-only, Blue Apron now lets customers order individual meals on demand, with or without a weekly plan.

Home Chef

Home Chef is a direct-to-consumer meal brand delivering flexible meal kits and prepared, low-prep meals (including its Tempo line) with weekly rotating menus. It focuses on convenient, hassle-free cooking, letting customers order what fits their week without a rigid commitment.

Pressed Juicery

Pressed Juicery sells cold-pressed juice, functional shots, and plant-based frozen treats, built around making everyday nutrition convenient rather than aspirational. The brand operates retail locations across the US alongside one-hour local delivery and two-day nationwide shipping, so the same products reach both regular in-store customers and people ordering from outside its store footprint.

Gamer Supps

Gamer Supps makes energy and nutrition products aimed at gamers, led by its GG energy-and-nootropic drink mix. The zero-sugar formula blends vitamins, caffeine, and nootropics for focus and a steady boost without the jitters or crash of traditional energy drinks. The range includes caffeine-free options and canned drinks, and the brand is known for its collectible Waifu Cups merch and strong gaming-culture following.

Waitrose

Waitrose is a British supermarket chain owned by the John Lewis Partnership, positioned at the premium end of grocery. The business is employee-owned, with every member of staff a partner in the company, and is known for its quality standards, own-label ranges, and a customer base that shops it for the fresh departments rather than the weekly basics.

Hy-Vee

Hy-Vee is an employee-owned supermarket chain across the American Midwest, operating more than 280 stores. The business combines groceries with pharmacy, dietitian services, and prepared food, and has extended into health clinics and convenience formats — employee ownership has been central to its identity since 1930.

Ingles Markets

Ingles Markets is an American supermarket chain operating around 200 stores across the south-eastern United States, most of them in North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee. The company is unusual in owning its own milk processing plant and much of the real estate its stores sit on, and pairs groceries with pharmacy and fuel centres.

Wild Fork

Wild Fork Foods is an online and retail store selling frozen meat and seafood, with over 600 products spanning beef, chicken, pork, lamb, seafood, sausages, and specialty meats, plus fruits, vegetables, and bakery items. Products are blast-frozen at peak freshness, with store pickup or home delivery. The company backs its products with a 100% satisfaction guarantee.

Mariano's

Mariano's is a Chicago-area supermarket chain known for its upmarket fresh departments, in-store dining, and oyster and sushi bars — closer to a food hall than a conventional grocer. Founded in 2010 and now operating as a Kroger banner, it competes on experience and prepared food as much as on grocery basics, and is concentrated almost entirely in the Chicago metropolitan area.

waterdrop

waterdrop is an Austrian direct-to-consumer beverage brand best known for Microdrinks — sugar-free, dissolvable cubes that flavour and enhance water with vitamins and natural ingredients. Its range spans electrolytes, natural caffeine, and a broad line of reusable bottles, drinkware and home accessories. The brand sells directly worldwide, positioning its microdrinks as a convenient, low-sugar way to stay hydrated and cut single-use plastic.

Black Rifle Coffee

Black Rifle Coffee Company is a veteran-owned direct-to-consumer coffee brand roasting premium beans imported from Colombia and Brazil, sold as whole bean, ground, rounds and ready-to-drink, alongside gear and apparel. The brand ties its mission to supporting veterans, law enforcement and first responders, giving back with every purchase.

WebstaurantStore

WebstaurantStore is the largest online restaurant supplier in the world, selling commercial kitchen equipment, smallwares, disposables, furniture, and janitorial supplies. The American company serves professional foodservice operators and individual customers alike, stocking hundreds of thousands of products across everything a kitchen or front of house needs.

Omaha Steaks

Omaha Steaks is an online food-delivery company describing itself as "America's Original Butcher," dating to 1917, providing hand-cut steaks and gourmet foods shipped to customers. Its range includes steaks, burgers, chicken, pork, seafood, wine, sides, and desserts, sold individually and in curated packages, with a money-back guarantee and a Steaklover Rewards loyalty program.

Fresh Thyme Market

Fresh Thyme Market is an American grocery chain focused on fresh, natural, and organic food across the Midwest. The stores are markedly smaller than a conventional supermarket and weighted toward produce, bulk foods, and vitamins, positioned as a specialty grocer rather than a full-line one. That means it is usually a second shop rather than the only one — customers come for the fresh departments and buy the packaged basics elsewhere.

Athletic Brewing

Athletic Brewing Company is a craft brewery focused entirely on non-alcoholic beer, aiming to 'revolutionize beer for the modern adult' with great-tasting brews for anytime. Its lineup spans pilsners plus seasonal and specialty releases, sold by the pack. It sells direct-to-consumer and runs a membership club with discounts, free shipping on larger orders, and access to limited brews.

Simpli Soda

Simpli Soda delivers CO2 cylinder refills and exchanges to the door for home carbonation machines. The American business replaces the trip to a supermarket exchange rack — customers register their machine and cylinder type once, then reorder, with empties collected or full cylinders bought outright.

Everyday Dose

Everyday Dose sells mushroom coffee blends combining coffee or matcha with functional mushroom extracts (Lion's Mane and Chaga), collagen protein, and L-Theanine. Its lineup includes Coffee+, Matcha+, Protein Coffee+, and Creamer+, along with frothers and mugs. Products are sold as one-time purchases or subscriptions, positioned as a lower-caffeine coffee alternative.

Lunds & Byerlys

Lunds & Byerlys is an upscale Minnesota grocery chain serving the Twin Cities, known for its fresh departments, prepared foods, and service counters rather than for discount pricing. The family-owned business runs stores across the metro area alongside delivery and curbside pickup, and operates the L&B Extras membership programme for regular customers.

Remedy Liquor

Remedy Liquor is an American retailer of premium spirits and fine wines, stocking thousands of products from everyday whiskies to rare and exclusive bottles not easily found elsewhere. The business sells online with delivery, and builds its offer around curated collections for collectors as much as for people buying a bottle for the weekend.

HEATONIST

HEATONIST curates all-natural hot sauces from small-batch makers, and is the retailer behind the sauce line-up used on the YouTube series Hot Ones. The shop stocks more than a hundred craft sauces alongside limited editions and collaborations, selling to an audience that treats hot sauce as a collectible category rather than a condiment.

Mindful Chef

Mindful Chef is a UK healthy-eating brand delivering recipe boxes and ready meals built around nutritious, high-quality ingredients and balanced recipes. The brand sells directly on a flexible subscription, emphasizing health-focused, chef-designed meals.

Harney & Sons

Harney & Sons Fine Teas is a tea company founded by John Harney in 1983 that sources and blends teas from around the world and packages them in the USA. It offers over 300 blends across black, green, white, oolong, matcha, herbal, and more, sold as loose tea, sachets, teabags, pods, and bottled iced teas, along with teaware and gifts. The business is now run by John's sons, Michael and Paul Harney.

Carnivore Snax

Carnivore Snax makes handcrafted meat chips — thin, crisped cuts of beef, lamb, and other meats sold as a high-protein snack with no fillers. The brand sells direct online to a low-carb and carnivore-diet audience, releasing new flavours and limited runs alongside its core line-up.

White Oak Pastures

White Oak Pastures is a sixth-generation family farm in Bluffton, Georgia, selling grassfed meat direct to consumers. The operation raises ten species on regenerative pasture and runs its own on-farm abattoirs — one of very few American farms doing both — so the animals are born, raised, and processed on the same land.

ABC

ABC Fine Wine & Spirits is a Florida retailer selling wine, spirits, beer, and mixers through more than 125 locations across the state alongside online ordering. The family-owned chain is one of the largest independent alcohol retailers in the US, pairing a broad everyday range with tastings, events, and its ABC Access Rewards programme.

One Stop German Shop

One Stop German Shop imports and sells German groceries and confectionery across the United States, stocking chocolates, sweets, sauces, bread, and sausages from brands including Milka, Ritter Sport, Haribo, and Meica. The business ships nationwide from its own warehouse, usually dispatching within 24 hours, and serves German expatriates and anyone after products that don't reach American supermarket shelves.

Bartesian

Bartesian makes a craft cocktail machine and the capsules that go in it, offering more than forty cocktails made at the touch of a button with no recipes, measuring, or cleanup. The business model is razor-and-blade: the machine is bought once, the capsules repeatedly, alongside rimming salts and sugars and bar accessories, sold direct online.

Yummy Bazaar

Yummy Bazaar is an American online grocer specialising in food from around the world, stocking thousands of name-brand and artisanal products across European, Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern ranges. The shop sells without a membership fee, aimed at people looking for imported staples and speciality ingredients they can't find in a local supermarket.

Supermarket Italy

Supermarket Italy is an online Italian grocer that began as a New Jersey family business and grew into a major US importer of Italian food and drink, from D.O.P. prosciutto di Parma to artisan pasta, cheeses, and Mediterranean seafood. The catalogue has since widened well beyond Italy, carrying European and international goods from Morocco to Thailand alongside its core Italian range.

DUBBY Energy

DUBBY Energy is a direct-to-consumer energy-drink brand centered on gaming and lifestyle, offering mix-based energy powders and accessories with a strong community following. Flavor variety and community define the brand. The brand sells directly to consumers through its own store and app.

Real Mushrooms

Real Mushrooms makes functional mushroom extracts and supplements — reishi, lion's mane, cordyceps, chaga, shiitake, maitake, turkey tail, and tremella — formulated from fruiting bodies rather than mycelium on grain. The brand sells direct online and puts unusual weight on education, publishing extensively on extraction methods, beta-glucan content, and how to read a supplement label in a category full of vague claims.

Sakara

Sakara is a direct-to-consumer wellness and food brand offering chef-crafted, organic, plant-based meal programs delivered ready-to-eat, plus functional snacks and supplements. It frames food as medicine, blending nutrition science with a wellness-lifestyle ethos. The brand sells directly to consumers through its own store and app.

Vosges Haut-Chocolat

Vosges Haut-Chocolat is a luxury chocolate maker known for exotic, globally inspired confections. Its range spans truffle collections, chocolate bars, bonbons, caramels, single-origin cacao, and curated gift boxes. Its signature idea is to travel the world through chocolate, pairing fine cacao with unexpected spices, flavors, and spirits, targeting gift-givers and discerning chocolate lovers.