Web Scraping Policy

At grocery.com, our digital storefront is built and optimized exclusively for individual retail customers browsing and purchasing products manually.

To maintain the security, speed, and integrity of our online shopping platform, we strictly control how our servers are accessed. Non-human, automated interaction with this website is subject to the terms outlined below.

With the sole exception of standard, public search engine crawlers explicitly whitelisted in our robots.txt file (such as Googlebot or Bingbot), the use of any automated systems, software, or tools to access this website is prohibited.

Prohibited access methods include, but are not limited to:

Web scraping scripts, data-mining software, spider bots, and offline harvesters.

Browser emulation or automation frameworks (e.g., Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium).

Artificial intelligence (AI) training crawlers, LLM data harvesters, and bulk downloading utilities.

Querying our servers programmatically, bypasses our security protocols and constitutes unauthorized access to private computer systems.

This platform hosts a highly organized database of product details, pricing architectures, and creative assets. We strictly forbid the automated extraction of:

Pricing, Inventory, and Store Metrics: You may not use automated tools to harvest, track, or monitor our product pricing, promotional structures, or current stock levels for commercial databases, price-tracking platforms, or competitor intelligence.

Product Photography and Imagery: The product images displayed on this website are the property of their respective manufacturers and brand partners, licensed for our operational use. No party—including the original copyright holders, brand representatives, or compliance auditing agencies—is authorized to use automated crawlers or scripts to scan, audit, or bulk-download these images from our servers. Any asset verification or brand compliance audits must be conducted manually or negotiated via direct administrative contact.

Our server infrastructure, databases, and network bandwidth are private property. Automated traffic places a heavy computational load on our hosting resources, which slows down the browsing experience for our human customers and increases our operating costs.

Evading our rate-limiters, ignoring our robots.txt directives, or spoofing user-agent headers to crawl this website is a direct misuse of our physical and digital resources.

We continuously monitor all incoming network traffic for scraping activity. If automated abuse is detected, we will protect our infrastructure by:

Implementing immediate firewall blocks on offending IP addresses and entire hosting provider subnets.

Filing abuse complaints with the corresponding Internet Service Provider (ISP) or server host.

Pursuing civil, technical, or legal remedies against entities responsible for unauthorized resource consumption or data harvesting.

Parties seeking authorized API access or legitimate research exemptions must secure explicit, written permission prior to running any automated queries. For inquiries, please contact our administrative team at our contact us page.