You Own Your Money. You Own Your Time.

October 19, 2026

We don't compete with delivery apps. We do something different — and for anyone already on the road, something cheaper and faster. Here is the difference, in the open.

What delivery really costs

When you order groceries or store items for delivery, the price on your screen is not the price on the shelf:

• Item prices are marked up 10–24% above the in-store price on delivery platforms.
• A service fee of 5–15% is added to the subtotal.
• A delivery fee applies on top (a measured average of $5.96 per order), plus a tip for the driver.
• According to a CNET analysis (January 2025) cited by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in its 2026 proposed rulemaking on delivery fees, the same grocery order cost 30–50% more through a delivery platform than at in-store prices, adding markups and fees.
• The average American pays about $12.80 extra per order in fees and tip — roughly $654 a year — and 68% of users have abandoned an order after seeing the final total.

Memberships soften this; they don't remove it. Even with a subscription, service fees, tips and markups remain — and you paid for the membership, too.

What waiting really looks like

Delivery promises speed, but its clock ends at your door — not in your hands. In a 600-order field study, 35–48% of orders arrived later than the promised estimate, and grocery orders are commonly scheduled in windows of hours. And if you are not at a fixed address — on the road, at a job site, between towns — the service often doesn't exist at all: only 37% of rural America has access to even one delivery service.

Our way: the price on the shelf, the product in your hand

Our app works in the opposite direction. You are already moving — driving to work, crossing the state, running your route. The app searches the connected stores on your way, in real time, and tells you: (1) which store has your product right now, (2) its real in-store price — the same price you would pay at the shelf, with no delivery markup, no service fee and no tip — and (3) the time until the product is in your hands. Then it guides you there by road. You see the product, you verify it is exactly the one you need, and you pay the store's price. Nothing more.

Millions already shop this way: pickup is about 42% of online grocery in the United States. People choose to go themselves because it costs less and because they can check what they are buying. What nobody gave them — until now — was a way to choose which store, by route, price and time, across different chains, while they are already on the move.

And for the one who stays home

There is another customer delivery serves poorly: the person at home. She is cooking; the baby is finally asleep; she cannot leave. But someone she trusts is already out there — a husband on his way home, a relative across town. She checks the app, sees which store on his way has what the house needs, its real store price and how soon it will be home — and he simply comes back with it. No delivery fee, no markup, no stranger choosing for her. And usually faster than any courier.

One app, two people: the one who knows what is missing, and the one already on the road.

"But doesn't Google already do this?"

It is the first question everyone asks — so we answer it head-on. Yes, the tools exist. A search engine informs you. One store's own app shows you that one store. An AI assistant converses with you. But to know — with certainty — the exact product, which store has it right now, its real price, how long until it is in your hands, and the road that takes you there, you have to jump between four or five different tools and assemble the answer yourself, spending exactly the time you don't have.

This app does all of it in a single search: the product identified, the store that has it now, its price, the time until it is in your hands, guidance by road, and your other options. Six answers, one tap.

AI assistants converse. This app resolves. Your time is money. Your time is an investment. This app manages your shopping time.

We are not a delivery app. That is the point.

Delivery sells you someone else's trip to a fixed address. We sell you back your trip — the one you were already making — with the product waiting on your way.

"You own your money. You own your time."

Prices, fees and statistics in this article come from public sources checked on October 19, 2026, including the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's 2026 delivery-fee rulemaking record (which cites the CNET analysis), Consumer Reports and published industry field studies; the full source list is in our comparison study. Delivery prices and fees vary by platform, market and order. DESIDERIUM's app is in testing; store coverage grows as chains connect.