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Damn, too bad it's not their Cranberry vodka!
Grapefruit is one of my favorite flavors, next to cranberry, and if you want to do a pitcher type drink, an easy thing might be a grapefruit Screwdriver (a nice OJ, or even with blood orange juice and the grapefruit vodka).
Jumping off the Screwdriver base, it would definitely support a hefty amount or even just a splash of cranberry juice (if you want intensity without dilution of added sweetness, I recommend Knudsen Just Cranberry for highly concentrated flavor), and plain or burnished fresh rosemary sprigs, a squeeze of lime and a wedge of lime, or orange, ahh, it's endless! You could give it a fizz with soda water or flavored Italian soda, anything that slides into the profile, make it more holiday with a cinnamon stick, or stronger and more complex with botanicals of some gin, yadda yadda, I'm not helping! Too many options, I'm getting envious of your quandary.
A Grayhound, just also use the grapefruit vodka, similarly with Salty Dogs. I'd go so far to recommended Tanqueray Rangpur Lime Gin, for that added citrus with the botanicals, but I'm big on flavor, and that'll get expensive pretty quickly in quantity. Fresh lime juice goes a long way.
You could also just get a bunch of cheap regular and diet tonic, (for options) and make up pitchers or pretty carafes of V & Ts. It's nice enough flavor wise on it's own, but great with all the above flavor options, too!
Regardless, you probably can't go wrong with Deep Eddy, and a singular something tasty to mix.