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What's still in your pantry? Why shopping planning starts with the receipt
Around 58% of food waste in Germany arises in private households. BonBert therefore starts with the receipt: past purchases can support pantry inference, possible duplicate warnings and useful next steps.
1 Sept 2026 · 8 min readHave your groceries really become more expensive? Why your own monthly comparison matters
Does shopping feel more expensive? Official averages provide context, but your own shopping history is what shows how your personal basket has really changed.
20 Aug 2026 · 7 min readWhy the cheapest supermarket isn't always the cheapest for you
There is not automatically one cheapest supermarket for your everyday shopping. Products, pack sizes, promotions and your own buying habits determine where you really spend less.
17 Aug 2026 · 7 min readWhy BonBert sometimes takes a few extra seconds to scan a receipt
Receipts can be faded, folded, poorly printed and full of abbreviations. BonBert combines Tesseract with a self-hosted Qwen3.5 9B model to understand receipts as reliably as possible. That can occasionally take a little longer – but provides a stronger foundation for everything that follows.
15 Aug 2026 · 7 min readHow much do households in Germany spend on groceries?
German households spent around €335 per month on food on average in 2023. We look at where that money went and how your own receipts can reveal your real spending patterns.
14 Aug 2026 · 6 min read