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Smart Supermarket Shopping Strategies

Psychological Supermarket Tricks That Make Us Spend

October 4, 2009

I have to hand it to them. Grocery stores are the masters of consumer psychology. How else can you explain walking into the grocery store for one item and coming out with a basket full of stuff?
In some ways they remind me of carnival pitchmen who’ve refined their sales pitches to perfection. In the process [...]

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Frugal Food Links

September 28, 2009

Hello. Today I’m going to take you on a little trip around the blogosphere and highlight some great frugal food articles.
Everybody is trying to eat healthy. In a down economy, however, this can become quite difficult. Vic Magary at Bargaineering.com shows you how to Eat Healthy on $10 a Day.
TipHero.com is a great [...]

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Save Money by Building a More Effective Shopping List

September 19, 2009

Shopping with a grocery list is one of the most effective ways to slash your grocery bill. Not only does a list help you avoid costly impulse purchases but it also prevents expensive repeat trips to the supermarket.
Unfortunately, most shopping lists are flawed, making them much less effective as money saving devices.
Below [...]

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Are You Leaving Money Behind at the Supermarket?

August 29, 2009

A common piece of advice frequently given to shoppers is to check grocery store receipts for mistakes. This advice is now more important than ever!
You see supermarket offers are becoming ever more complex. Instead of a simple price discount, you’re often required to purchase multiple quantities of a product in order to obtain an even [...]

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Frugal Food Links

August 10, 2009

Today I’d like to highlight some great food articles from around the blogosphere.
Linsey Knerl at WiseBread.com presents an easy way to start batch cooking for busy people on the go. If you’re not familiar with batch cooking, its a way to cook a large amount of food and then freeze the portions to serve later [...]

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A Simple Way to Slash Your Grocery Bill

July 25, 2009

Has this ever happened to you? You run into the supermarket to grab a few items and end up walking out with a cart full of groceries.
You’re not alone. Supermarkets have designed it this way. Simple put, they are masters of the impulse purchase. In fact, depending on the study cited, between 40% to 50% [...]

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How to Enjoy Your Grocery Store Indulgences Guilt Free

July 20, 2009

Yes, I’ll admit it. I have my grocery store indulgences – those sinful over-priced temptations that quickly inflate shopping bills.
My particular Achilles heel is silky smooth, delicious Dove  ice cream.  At $4.79 a pint its nearly twice as expensive as quality ice creams like Breyer’s and Edy’s. Yet, I just can’t resist the taste of [...]

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How Brand Jumping Saves You Big Money at the Supermarket

July 14, 2009

Companies spend millions of dollars each year promoting and advertising their brands. They do this with good reason.  It works!  Once we’re hooked on a particular brand we frequently become a customer for life.
Brand loyalty is often set at a very young age, passed along from parent to child like a family heirloom. Growing up [...]

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The Cost of Routine – How Getting Stuck in a Rut Costs You Money

June 23, 2009

As humans we are creatures of habit.  We settle into predictable routines repeated day in and day out. 
A person may read the same newspaper each morning, stop by the same coffee shop, socialize with the same handful of co-workers, and visit their favorite food truck for lunch every day. At home the same news channel are [...]

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How to Break the Seductive Spell of Name Brands and Save Your Family Big Money

June 6, 2009

We are the products of our advertising environment. The seductive lure of popular name brands incessantly calls us. So seductive the lure that the attraction to name brands seems impossible to break, even in today’s tough economic times.
And who could blame us, we’ve been inundated with marketing messages since birth.
In fact, in one study it [...]

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