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GROCERIES

GROCERIES sells clothes with 83.7% natural plant fibre material across 64 scanned styles. The rest breaks down as 0.0% animal fibre, 1.6% synthetic, 9.4% semi-synthetic and 32.8% with no stated composition.

2026-07-11

The full style-by-style breakdown for GROCERIES is being added.

About GROCERIES

GROCERIES is strongly sustainable on materials: our scan of 64 styles found 83.7% plant fibre (1.6% synthetic). DOCUMENTED FACTS: GROCERIES genuinely makes garments in its own US factory (Los Angeles/Vernon, CA) using GOTS-certified organic cotton, Tencel, hemp, and plant/food-waste-based non-toxic dyes; the made-in-USA and GOTS claims are verifiable on the live site. It has a real 15-year history and emphasizes living wages and local family farms. MARKETING CLAIMS not independently confirmed: “living wages
GROCERIES garments are made in the USA, specifically in Los Angeles, California, in the company’s own vertically integrated factory and non-toxic dye house (it began in a 33,000 sq ft downtown LA factory; by 2026 Eco-Stylist reports it contracted to a smaller facility in Vernon, California, in the greater LA area). Live product pages on the official site state “Made Locally in Los Angeles.” The brand cuts, sews, and dyes in-house on a made-to-order model.
GROCERIES (trading as Groceries Apparel) is an independent, privately held US clothing brand founded in 2010 in Los Angeles, California by co-founders Robert “Rob” Lohman and Matthew “Matt” Boelk, who met studying geography at UC Santa Barbara. It is not owned by a larger parent company; it operates as a vertically integrated, self-owned manufacturer. Per Eco-Stylist (May 2026), Rob Lohman continues to run the brand today while co-founder Matt Boelk has since departed.
GROCERIES (Groceries Apparel) is a real, currently-trading legitimate business as of July 2026: its official site (groceriesapparel.com) is live and fully functional with purchasable in-stock products, active pricing, and a running sitewide promotion. It has a documented 15-year operating history (founded 2010) with coverage in California Apparel News and Fashion Revolution. However, its scale has contracted sharply and it has serious customer-service problems (see ethical_notes).
GROCERIES is a slow / small-batch brand, not fast fashion. It operates a made-to-order, vertically integrated model with 4-6 week lead times, in-house US manufacturing, and a focus on organic-cotton basics rather than rapid trend-driven drops. Eco-Stylist explicitly confirms GROCERIES still passes its “non-fast-fashion” criterion. Retail pricing is roughly $40-$68 per piece.
GROCERIES is largely non-toxic: 83.7% of its range is plant fibre that breathes and biodegrades, with 1.6% plastic-based synthetics that can shed microplastics. Certifications: GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) certification on its organic cotton is verifiable directly on GROCERIES’ live product pages, which state “All Organic Cotton is GOTS certified.” The brand also uses TENCEL/eucalyptus Tencel and hemp, and proprietary plant-based “Vege-dye” (avocado pits, coffee grounds, onion skins, madder root, etc.). B Corp and Carbon Neutral certifications were asserted in one third-party listicle but could NOT be confirmed in the official B Corp directory, so treat those as unverified. No OEKO-TEX, Fair Trade, or European Flax certification is documented. Note: GROCERIES’ separate Eco-Stylist “certification” was revoked in May 2026..
GROCERIES does not publicly document a recognised textile certification such as GOTS or OEKO-TEX in the sources we checked. What we can confirm is the material itself: our scan of 64 GROCERIES styles found 83.7% is 100% plant fibre, so GROCERIES’s natural-fibre standing rests on its composition rather than a certificate.
GROCERIES is not entirely 100% cotton: our scan of 64 GROCERIES styles found 83.7% is 100% plant fibre (mainly cotton), while 1.6% of GROCERIES’s range is synthetic, usually cotton blended with elastane for stretch. So many GROCERIES basics are pure cotton, but GROCERIES’s fitted and active styles typically add a small share of synthetic.
How we scan. Every figure on this page comes from the Throne Standard scan: we read the fibre composition off each live product on the brand’s own site, style by style, and count only single-fibre plant cloth (cotton, linen, hemp) as natural. Animal fibres such as wool, silk and cashmere and plastic-based synthetics such as polyester, nylon and elastane sit outside the plant-fibre figure, and regenerated fibres such as viscose, bamboo, modal and Tencel are counted as semi-synthetic. Percentages are calculated over the styles that state a composition; anything unlabelled is shown separately.

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