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‘myGrubFindr’ simplifies the supermarket

New Facebook app helps college students save on grocery shopping

Dent May takes talents Downunder

Singer-songwriter brings ukulele pop to Tallahassee

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Photo courtesy of Kyle Evans‘myGrubFindr’ allows users to compare prices of their favorite food items at multiple grocery stores in the area.

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LiNDSAY MArSHALLStaff Writer

Ukulele-playing pop singer and songwriter Dent May is a Mississippi native whose music cov-ers a broad spectrum of sounds including cosmic synths, analog drum ma-chines, funky guitars and the piano.

His music has been de-scribed as a mix between ’60s psychedelic and dis-co-era ballads, with the

honesty of sweet pop mu-sic. Storytelling is the art-ist’s goal; he touches with on many relatable sub-jects such as friendship, finding purpose in life and dealing with disappoint-ment and depression.

The artist will play at Club Downunder on Wednesday, Dec. 5.

“I’ve been playing mu-sic my whole life pretty much,” said May. “I went to a performing arts el-ementary school. I started

playing piano and writing songs when I was about 10, and started taking gui-tar lessons when I was 12.”

May formed a cover band called Flood shortly after learning to play his different instruments, and formed power-pop group The Rockwells while in high school. He later at-tended film school at New York University, and also

Photo courtesy of Erin Kirkpatricindie pop singer Dent May will perform at Club Downunder on Wednesday, Dec. 5.

AriEL BACKErContributing Writer

A new Facebook app will help students save money and time on gro-cery shopping. With myGrubFindr, anyone can quickly and easily locate the best grocery deals at their local supermarkets.

The grassroots initia-tive presents a free ser-vice that aims to take the stress out of shopping for essentials.

“Our app makes it easy to save on groceries by taking the guesswork out of grocery deals without taking up a ton of their precious time,” MyGro-ceryDeals.com Digital Marketing Specialist Kyle Evans said.

Evans has been in charge of creating the idea for the student-based app. He designed the general layout and functionality of myGrubFindr, and he’s also spearheading its mar-keting and social media.

How does myGrub-Findr work? All students have to do is enter their zip code and they can in-stantly search local super-markets to compare deals on their favorite food items. The application also provides a number of pre-made grocery lists in-cluding “healthy snacks” and a “dorm room starter” list.

“By taking our grocery deal search technology, wrapping it up in a social, simple package, surround-ing it with fun and useful content and delivering it on a social network fre-quented by 88 percent of college students, we’re

confident that we can make an impact on the shopping habits of frugal students across the coun-try,” Evans said.

FSU junior Tom Kline is interested in the potential of myGrubFindr.

“Honestly, I really hate grocery shopping,” Kline said. “After hearing about this app I actually think that the trip to Publix won’t be as horrible since there will be a list of items already made for me.”

Evans explained that with regular use of the application, students can

see grocery savings of up to 50 percent—that’s about $60 per month for many shoppers.

“Once a habit is formed, students should be able to sign in, search their items, compare their stores and find the best prices, text, and be heading to the store in less than a min-ute,” Evans said.

To use the myGrub-Findr app, you must be logged into Facebook; once signed into your ac-count, you can visit face-book.com/myGrubFin-dr/app.

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By taking our grocery deal

search technology, wrapping it

up in a social, simple package,

surrounding it with fun and

useful content, and delivering

it on a social network

frequented by 88 percent

of college students, we’re

confident that we can make an

impact on the shopping habits

of frugal students across the

country. Kyle Evans

MyGroceryDeals.com Digital Marketing Specialist

• Students can specify their search with check boxes

• It’s easy to compare product prices with GrubFindr

• Students can save their shopping list on the site

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