Hourly Pricing Across 12 UK Supermarkets
Introduction How a London-based consumer app went from manual price checks to 4.8 million product updates a day — with zero downtime in the first 180 days Actowiz Solutions | Case Study | Industry: Consumer Apps / Retail Tech Client Snapshot The client is a London-headquartered consumer app helping UK households save on their weekly grocery shop by comparing prices across major supermarkets in real time. Backed by a seed round in 2024 and a Series A in 2026, the company set out to be the most accurate, most current grocery price comparison platform in the UK — a market with notoriously fast-moving prices and aggressive private-label dynamics. Client name and exact retailer breakdown are anonymized at the company’s request. The Business Challenge In its first year, the app relied on a combination of manual price checks, weekly flyer ingestion, and best-effort scraping built by two backend engineers. As user growth accelerated past 380,000 monthly active us...