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Save 9% on your Monthly Grocery Bills! [Cornell Univ]

  • Jan 5, 2025
  • 1 min read

Updated: 5 days ago


Hey everyone — looking for another reason these medications pencil out? Cornell's business school just put a number on it.


A study from Cornell's SC Johnson College of Business, working with consumer data firm Numerator, found that households with a GLP-1 user cut their grocery spending by about 9%. Nine percent off the grocery bill — every month — as a downstream effect of the appetite changes these medications produce.


Run your own math: if your family spends $800 a month on groceries, that's $70+ staying in your account, month after month. Over a year, that alone covers a meaningful share of a program's cost — before you count the restaurant meals you're no longer ordering, the takeout that doesn't appeal anymore, or the snack runs that just... stopped happening.


We've covered this theme from a few angles now — Morgan Stanley's consumer-spending analysis found similar shifts, and we wrote about the food industry scrambling to adapt to GLP-1 appetites. But I like the Cornell number because it's so concrete. Not "consumer trends." Your grocery receipt, 9% shorter.


And here's the thing our patients always add: they didn't feel deprived getting there. That's the difference between a diet and this. Diets make you resist the grocery store. These medications make you genuinely want less of it.


Healthier, lighter, AND cheaper at the register. We'll take that deal.


-Daryl


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