So, in tough times, people are more selective about their buying choices? Gee, what a revelation.
So, in tough times, people are more selective about their buying choices? Gee, what a revelation.
I found I do that now. I don’t do it for financial reasons but because the stores have gotten so big that only a few aisles actually have anything I need to buy. Most contain crap I simply don’t ever want.
We go around the edges of the store and get the used food. The stuff with the orange Manager Special sticker.
We hit the used bread, swing to the used veggies, grab the dented cans of veggies in back, grab the used milk, and then clean up on the used meat.
We grabbed about 20 cans of deodorant, usually $2.89, a buck apiece, used.
Save 1/3 to 1/2 buying used.
Go with a list. Eat before you go.
I remember a public service announcement on Armed Forces TV in Panama, a little cartoon of groceries bopping through the aisles of the Commissary singing, “Don’t shop when you’re hungry! No, no, no!”
I hate it that that still sticks with me...
Colonel, USAFR
$5.16 for a jar of mayonnaise last week! Yep, it’s the change I was hoping for! :^( Every time I go to the grocery store I’m flabbergasted at the price increases.
They are also shopping ONLY sale items and stocking up when items are on loss leader status.
FACE IT, We are in a massive Depression caused by a Democrat housing bubble and perpetuated and sustained by Obama and his economic illiteracy.
There are 2 million FEWER workers than when Obama took office, yet more than five million net people should be in the work force. The real unemployment number if the labor force was the SAME as 2009 would be 11.3%. If the labor force added the additional five million new additions it would be close to 14%. THESE ARE U-3. U-6 is actually close to 25%. For men it is far worse than at ANY TIME since 1933.
If not for government welfare programs, there would be riots in the streets and possibly outright revolution.
In other news, the sun rose in the East this morning.
The easiest way to save money grocery shopping is to make sure you go AFTER you eat.
Weirdest damn Recovery I’ve every seen!
It’s not new to me I’ve always shopped like this.I use a list and the only time I do go down other isles is to comparison shop.The more tie you are in the store the more likely you are to impulse buy which is where met people bust their budget.
It’s not new to me I’ve always shopped like this.I use a list and the only time I do go down other isles is to comparison shop.The more tie you are in the store the more likely you are to impulse buy which is where most people bust their budget.
THat’s the way my wife always shops. She plans our meals about 5-6 weeks ahead and buys for a month. Fill ins for milk etc are done when needed. SHe has a defined list and woe unto the poor husband who happens to be in sight when some ice cream “accidentally” falls into the cart.
The higer fuel prices go, the more expensive food becomes. People that pay for their own food are cherry picking and not impulse buying.
Those who use taxpayers to buy their food don’t worry about it. Two cartloads at one time tells the tale. Eventually, even these leeches will notice the taxpayer funded free food card will run out sooner.
Then they will whine and get behind the marxists and scream for higher taxes on anybody but them, because they don’t pay any.
Meat, potatos, salt and butter; the staples, are never in the same aisle so I always have to run the entire gauntlet.
$5.16 for a jar of mayonnaise last week! Yep, it’s the change I was hoping for! :^( Every time I go to the grocery store I’m flabbergasted at the price increases.
It’s changed a lot of things. I’m at a McDonalds now shortly after 1pm, and it’s not busy at all. I walk through Best Buy on a weekend afternoon and it’s relatively quiet.
People are just not spending money like they used to.
I’ve noticed that my local HEB (Texas/Mexico grocery store) has started carrying icky meats that I don’t really enjoy seeing in the cases..and would’ve been considered inedible in my town of mostly retired folks from bigger TX cities...
Like Packages of CHICKEN FEET. I am sure some people think they are really good eating..but they were never a staple of Texas Hill Country German types, that’s for sure..Ugh.