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Grocery Stores And Food Shopping Bargains
By Patrick D Kelly
Grocery stores may contain a wide variety of food you need, to
feed your family. These days of economic strife, millions losing
their jobs, placing food on the family table has become really
tough. You may need to look for ways to spend less, and buy food
in bulk from warehouse grocery stores.
One tip, is to buy food that lasts a long time. Quite often,
canned food can be eaten any time in the next few months. If you
buy fresh produce, you may need to eat it on the day or during
the first week after purchasing.
Looking out for bargains in grocery stores and eating at home,
may be one of the best options. You may find, the food you are
eating at home is much more nutritious than food bought at the
local burger outlet.
Sticker Shock At Grocery Stores
Wow! Have you experienced the sticker shock at the grocery stores
lately? You’re certainly not alone. Gas price hikes, world food
shortages and disappearing bee populations have created havoc
for us shoppers. Unlike luxury items we can forego, everyone must
eat. You may well wonder how you might better manage your grocery
budget to offset these changing marketplace conditions. Here,
we offer several ways to make your grocery dollars go quite a
bit further.
The strategies presented here are a bit unconventional, but if
you combine all of these techniques, you can expect to reduce
your bill at the grocery stores by anywhere from 30-50%. No kidding.
Shopping From A Number Of Grocery Stores To Grab The Better
Bargains
The first way to save big involves shopping all of your neighborhood
grocery stores, not just your usual favorite. Pluck those grocery
sales flyers out of the newspaper each week. Go through each one
and plan your menus around what’s on sale this week, rather than
planning your menus first.
The sales vary weekly, so your menus will be automatically diverse.
If one store has the best produce, visit that store and shop their
produce sales. Apply the same technique for meat. Coffee is another
good example. You can save up to $3 for a large can by stopping
by the store you dislike, but which has coffee on sale.
Taking A Calculator
You may wince at the thought of extra gas and time, but the money
you save on food makes up for both of those factors. If you took
a calculator to each of your neighborhood stores and added up
the cost of your entire list at each store, your overall bill
would be about the same.
By splitting your list into say, four stops, you’ll realize a
30-50% overall reduction by shopping each store’s sale items.
For example, Joe’s store has chicken for $0.99 per pound this
week, while your favorite store is selling chicken for the regular
$1.89 per pound. With a five pound purchase at Joe’s, you save
$4.50! Stocking up with ten pounds, your savings comes to a whopping
$9.00.
Manufacturers Coupons May Be Honored By More Than One Store
Although the grocery stores would like you to believe that those
manufacturer’s coupons are only good at their store, it’s simply
not true. The grocery business is quite competitive. Most often
you’ll find another store which sells the product for less all
the time, accepts that coupon. Again, you save.
Dollar type stores are famous for selling toiletries such as
shampoo and toothpaste for just $1, compared with grocery store
prices of $2-3. Why pay $4 for disposable razors when you can
get them for $1?
If You Have The Time, Shop More Than Once A Week
If you don’t have the time to do all your weekly shopping in
one day, spread it out. If you have an errand on Tuesday which
is a block away from one store, buy those sale items in a quick
convenient stop.
Plan your menu around sales, shop all the stores and use those
coupons judiciously at the right store. Your reward is dollars
in the bank!
Buying In Bulk From Warehouse Stores
I find the better bargains at warehouse stores and not quite
right stores. This is where you can purchase products in bulk
and save a small fortune. Some of the products may have a couple
of scratches on the packaging, but the content in the packaging
is still perfect.
When you need dozens cans of food, beer, or club soda, you can
get the better savings when you buy in bulk from warehouse stores,
including warehouse clubs.
Not all your groceries are perishable items and may last for
a long time, as long as you do not open the package. For example,
you may buy canned fish, or frozen corn and these may have a best
before date, a few months away. They are not like lobsters, where
you need to cook them on the day you have bought them.
Buying A Variety Of Products
You may notice a lot of grocery stores, do not only sell food,
they sell a variety of stock, including socks, underwear, cleaning
products and kitchen appliances. For example, you can buy 10 pairs
of socks at the best price, and wear them when the time comes
to replace your old socks. There are always times during the year
when you need to replace worn out socks.
Keeping your eyes open and your mind alert for the best bargains,
you will be able to beat a lot of price rises by buying in bulk,
from competing grocery stores.
About the Author:
Patrick D Kelly has written a number of articles on food and cooking
including Groceries
Online, Irish
Recipes, Crock
Pot Soup,
Vegetarian Crock Pot,
Wood Bread Box,
Bread Baskets,
Can Opener,
Black and Decker Coffee,
Fruit Juice,
Sabatier Knives,
Kitchen Equipment,
Kitchen Scale,
Food Containers.
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