Grocery shoppers with lists spend far less on impulse buys

Impulse buys are the bread and butter (so to speak!) of the grocery store’s profits… all those things people don’t really need but buy on impulse anyway, especially because they have a prominent spot on the end cap or the middle shelf. But did you know that shoppers without a grocery shopping list spend […]

Why you should never grocery shop for more than 30 minutes

Did you know that for every minute you spend in a grocery store after the initial 30 minutes, you will spend an average of 50 cents more per minute than you did in that first 30 minutes? Why is this? Unless you are shopping in a huge warehouse type grocery store […]

Some hot coupon sites to try out

Here are a couple of coupon sites that have been popping up on my radar (and in my email from friends), so it might be worthwhile seeing if there are coupons you can use. And best of all, they often have coupons NOT in the Sunday papers. And as a bonus, you can […]

Scanning the grocery aisles for coupons

I swear, the coupon gods are in full force this month. I am guessing people have over-spent so much over the holiday season that grocery budgets must get cut for January because it seemed that every single aisle I went in, there were AT LEAST four different coupons, and lucky me, they were actually […]

Using Costco gift cards gives you a free membership for the day

Don’t have a Costco gift card, but want to stock up before Christmas? Simply load a Costco gift card and take that with you, because it includes a FREE membership for the day! And yes, you can buy a Costco gift card as a gift for yourself, and you can buy them online […]