Okay, obviously the developers arent listening to these reviews.
Yes, there is the annoying sync issue - the one where the screen goes black during sync and you have to wait for it to finish.
Here is the workaround. Double tap your home button and swipe the app out of memory. Relaunch it. You wont get the black screen issue for some period of time and it will work fine for a bit.
As a developer, I suspect the root cause is how it is dealing with backgrounding in iOS 9. It obviously hasnt been updated since the update 6 months ago.
DallasAppGuy about Shopping List (Grocery List), v1.71