$60B+1
lost to food loss and waste every year across the Near East and North Africa, a conservative estimate.
AI against food waste · Starting in Riyadh
Tomorrow’s waste, today’s deal.
Grabt knows what a store won’t sell before it expires, prices it with AI and offers it to the people nearby at 30% off or more. The store sells instead of binning, neighbours save, and less food is wasted.
About
We stop food waste before it starts.
Every store has good products nearing their date. Nobody knows whether they’ll sell in time, or at what price, so they end up in the bin: the store loses the revenue, neighbours miss the savings, and the food is wasted. Grabt knows what won’t sell, prices it, and offers it to the people around the store before it’s thrown away.
33%2
of food in Saudi Arabia is wasted, costing close to SAR 40 billion a year.
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A risk nobody sees
The date is printed on the label, but nobody knows which batch won’t sell in time.
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Revenue in the bin
Every unit that expires on the shelf is a total loss: its price, and the cost of disposing of it.
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Demand nobody reaches
A few doors away, families look for real savings and never learn the discount exists.
Sources
- FAO: Regional Framework for Food Losses and Waste Reduction in the Near East and North Africa (FAO Regional Office, April 2015). www.fao.org
- Arab News: “Saudis waste 33% of food each year; KSA loses SR40 billion annually from waste”: a field study by the Saudi Grains Organization (SAGO), 7 April 2020. www.arabnews.com
- United Nations: Sustainable Development Goal 12, target 12.3. sdgs.un.org
How it works
One loop, from the shelf to the neighbour.
Grabt is software for stores and a marketplace for shoppers in one platform, and every turn of the loop teaches it more about products, prices and demand.
A real recording of the app: a fire offer, the cart, then group buying.
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The store
Sees the risk early
It snaps the expiry label with a phone, and Grabt predicts how much won’t sell before the date.
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Grabt
Prices and lists it
Autopilot picks the highest price that still sells every unit in time, and shows it to the people around the store.
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Neighbours
Buy alone or together
A single order, a group order with free delivery, or a bundle for a team of neighbours.
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Everyone
Less waste, more revenue
The store sells instead of binning, and knows how much to order next time.
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And every sale teaches the model: each product’s shelf life, price sensitivity, and the rhythm of demand at every store.
For shoppers
Real savings, a short walk away.
Good products from stores around you at 30% off or more, each deal with a photo of the product and of its date label.
Time Fire Offers
Grab it before it’s gone.
Deeper prices for a few hours, live for everyone nearby the moment they start and gone the moment they end.
- A live countdown and the units left
- Up to 6 hours per offer
- The fire price holds in your cart while the offer lasts
Group buying
Order with your neighbours. Delivery: free.
Neighbours' orders from the same store travel on one route. Four rules make it work:
- Everyone orders from one store
- Everyone lives within 5 km of each other
- Leaving after you join costs SAR 10, added to your next order
- Delivered in 40–60 minutes
- Every group has a link to share on WhatsApp
Neighbour bundles
A wholesale-price basket for a team of neighbours.
Grabt agrees baskets with stores at a lower price, unlocked when a team of neighbours fills.
- Start a team, or join one from a link
- Prepared and delivered together once the team fills
- Team didn’t fill? The order is cancelled, with no fine
Deals around you
A live map of every deal nearby.
The stores around you, their deals, fire offers and open group orders, updating as you look.
- Filter by fire offers, bundles and trusted stores
- Every store with its rating and distance
- No refreshing: every change arrives as it happens
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Search that gets you
Bread by any name, in Arabic or English, typos included.
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Notify me
Save what you’re after and we’ll tell you the moment it’s on a deal, at most 3 alerts a day.
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Points for pickup
Pick up your order yourself and earn 10 points for every kilometre you travel.
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Browse as a guest
Every deal and the map with no account; you sign in with your phone only to order.
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Pay your way
mada, Apple Pay, cards, or cash
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Trust in every deal
A real photo of the product and its date label, a date Grabt checks before the deal goes live, and rated stores with a trust badge.
For stores
Know what will expire. Sell it before it does.
The expiry date is printed on the label. What nobody knows is whether it will sell before then, and at what price. That’s what Grabt answers, with models a store owner can read.
Autopilot pricing
The price comes down by itself, and tells you why.
Autopilot lowers a deal’s price by itself so the last unit sells before the last hour, at the highest price that does.
- Weighs busy hours, weekdays, payday and Ramadan
- Learns price sensitivity every night from Grabt’s own sales
- Never below the floor you set, and never raises a price
- An automatic fire offer in the last 3 hours on what won’t sell
“Selling slower than expected: 3 of 40 sold in 12 hours. Thursday demand runs higher, so we cut less.”
Fresh milk, 1 L
Expires tonight · autopilot on
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SAR
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Automatic fire offer at 9:00 PM, 70% off
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Label reading
Snap the label. The dates fill themselves in.
The phone reads the production and expiry dates off the label, and Grabt remembers every barcode’s shelf life to suggest the date before you snap.
- Read on the device, with a vision model for hard labels
- Hijri dates understood
- Freshness estimates for bread, produce and meat with no printed date
Smart buying
Order what will sell, not what will be thrown away.
For every product: what you received, what sold at full price, what Grabt rescued, what was wasted, and how much to order next time.
“36% of the yoghurt went to waste in the last 4 weeks: order 26 fewer.”
- Advice for each product, with the expected savings
- Waste and revenue analytics by month and category, with a PDF report
Smart alerts
Expiry risk, before it becomes a loss.
A risk score for every batch from its sales velocity and days left, with a suggested discount and an instant alert.
- A “put the older batch in front” alert when a delivery lands behind stock that expires first
- Suspicious expiry dates and reused labels caught
- Multiple branches, pickup windows and payouts to your account
Grabt Ads
Your store, the first thing your neighbours see.
A monthly plan at SAR 299 that puts your store up front:
- Your banner on the app’s home screen
- The “trusted store” badge beside your name
- First place in nearby search
- A sponsored product of your choice (1)
Clear prices. You pay when you sell. Saudi Arabia
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Grabt for stores
$30 a month
after 30 days free
- Inventory, barcodes and label reading
- Risk prediction and alerts
- Autopilot pricing and fire offers
- Smart buying, analytics and branches
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Sales fee
5% of each completed order
Taken from your balance when an order completes, nothing on what didn’t sell. Your earnings are paid to your bank account.
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Grabt Ads
SAR 299 a month, optional
A home-screen banner, the trust badge, first place in nearby search and a sponsored product.
The app
One app, three roles.
Everyone picks a role when they sign up: buy, sell or deliver. The whole app is built and running today on demo data in Riyadh, and every screen here is from inside it.
For shoppers
Deals around you, alone or with your neighbours
- Fire offers, bundles and group buying
- Live order tracking, and store ratings
- Points, and your impact: the money you saved and the food you rescued
For stores
The whole store system, on a phone
- Inventory, prediction, autopilot pricing and deals
- Orders, branches and pickup windows
- Balance, payouts and tax invoices
For drivers
One run for the neighbours’ orders
- Group runs nearby, claimed with a tap
- An optimised route from the store to every stop
- The run’s progress reaches the store and the neighbours live
- Android and iOS, in Arabic and English, light and dark
- Real time throughout: orders, deals and prices arrive without refreshing
- mada, Apple Pay, cards through Paymob, or cash on pickup
- A monthly PDF tax invoice for every store, with the ZATCA Phase 1 QR
- Browse as a guest; delete your account from inside the app
Impact
Every deal sold is food not wasted.
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Environment
Less food in landfill, and fewer emissions.
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Economy
Revenue for stores from stock that was headed for the bin, and savings for families.
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Logistics
Neighbours' orders on one route, and fewer trips.
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Community
Good food for less, and group buying that brings neighbours together.
SDG 12.3
Sustainable Development Goal 12.3: halve per-capita food waste at retail and consumer level by 2030.3 And every user sees their impact in the app: the money they saved and the food they rescued.
Team
Product, technology and partnerships, in one team.
Three founders who built Grabt to cut food waste and create value across the region.
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Ahmed Elnagar
Founder & Product Owner
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Mohamed Nageeb
Co-founder, Technology & Growth
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Marwan Aly
Co-founder, AI & Product
FAQ
Before you ask.
Are products close to their expiry date safe?
Yes. Every deal is for a product that hasn’t expired, with a real photo of it and of its date label, its production and expiry dates and the time left. Grabt checks the date against the label before the deal goes live, and buyers rate the store after every order.
How much do I save?
Every deal is at least 30% off its original price, and fire offers go deeper for a few hours.
How does group buying work?
You order with neighbours from the same store, the orders travel on one route, and delivery is free. You live within 5 km of each other, and leaving after you join costs SAR 10, added to your next order.
Do I need an account to browse?
No. Browse the deals, the map and fire offers as a guest, and sign in with your phone number when you order.
How do I pay?
mada, Apple Pay, cards, or cash. Online payments happen at the payment gateway; we never store your card.
What does Grabt cost a store?
The first 30 days are free, then $30 a month for the software and 5% of each completed order, nothing more. Grabt Ads are optional at SAR 299 a month.
Does a store need special hardware or software?
No, a phone is enough: it scans barcodes and reads expiry labels with the camera. POS and inventory integrations are on our roadmap.
Where does Grabt work?
We start with a pilot in Riyadh in 2027, then the rest of Saudi Arabia in 2028, then Egypt and other markets in the region.
Contact
Let’s talk.
A store owner who wants to join the Riyadh pilot, a partner, or someone with a question? Leave your details and we’ll get back to you.
- [email protected]
- We reply within two working days.
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