If you live in a big city, you may simply walk to your grocery store. If you live in a sprawling suburb, you can probably drive in just about any direction and pass by countless supermarkets. And if you live in a more remote area, you may have just one choice for grocery shopping – and not even a particularly[Read More…]
Kids love them, but chicken nuggets can be pricey. If you manage to combine a good sale with a coupon, though, you can sometimes get a 29-ounce bag for just a buck or two… Oh, forget the clumsy attempt to tie this into coupons somehow. Let’s just cut to the chase – your kids may soon be eating chicken nuggets[Read More…]
Pity poor Walgreens – or, more precisely, Walgreens shoppers – they can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to pricing. First, came a report that the drug store chain was allegedly overcharging shoppers on sale items. Now there’s a new report that says many customers are getting gouged on regularly-priced items as well. If you’ve ever shopped at[Read More…]
It’s a clever, and increasingly common, promotion designed to help gain customers’ trust in a tough economy – promise to “freeze” prices for weeks or months at a time, so shoppers know they’ll always get a good deal at your store. But once you get yourself into it, how do you get yourself out without looking like a chump? That’s[Read More…]
Couponers are pretty familiar with Chobani Greek yogurt – there are often coupons available that will make the single-serve cups free or close to it. But now, some are swearing off the product and wouldn’t accept a cup if you paid them to take it. If you can even find Chobani products in your local store, that is. Chobani has[Read More…]
It sounds like a satirical headline, but strangely, and sadly, it’s not. An incredulous Kroger shopper has taken to Facebook to ask why her store in Savannah, Georgia was apologizing for carrying locally-grown produce. Isn’t locally-grown supposed to be a good thing? Or is the country’s largest grocery chain so used to getting its produce from far-flung places, that it[Read More…]
Like the legendary “hot McDonald’s coffee in the lap” or the “finger found in the Wendy’s chili bowl”, it’s tempting to mock the merits of a lawsuit that blames Walmart for not double-bagging its groceries. Do we not have anything better to sue each other for? But it’s a little different when somebody dies. You can argue the merits of[Read More…]
In some ways, a store loyalty program is the ultimate bait-and-switch. Retailers are able to lure us into their stores by promising lower prices, while knowing that a certain percentage of careless or confused shoppers who aren’t loyalty program members will end up paying the higher prices that are hidden in the fine print. Throw in some really confusing shelf[Read More…]
If you eat a diet of nothing but processed food, you can use coupons to feed your family for next to nothing. But even the best couponers end up having to spend money for things like fresh food and produce, because there are rarely coupons or great sales for them. So what would you think if your grocery store offered[Read More…]
There are “sell by,” “best by” and “use by” dates on our grocery products – but, let’s be honest, most of us really only look at the date and not the description. Even if it’s just a “best by” date, and it’s probably perfectly safe to eat after the date passes, most of us tend to err on the side[Read More…]
