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COST EFFICIENT GROCERY-ING 1

by ren on June 27th, 2008

In these times of weekly price increases, you have to watch all your expenses very closely. A great portion of your expenses are groceries.

Supermarkets are minefields of unnecessary expenses. In addition to the on-site and point-of-purchase advertisements and all sorts of promotions to entice you to buy more than you budgeted, the supermarket itself is laid out to make you buy more.

The standard layout of a supermarket places the non-essentials (many of which are things you want and not really need) right after the check-out counter, nearest the entrance, and the first things that attack your senses of sight & smell. The layout forces you to go through these non-essentials before you get to the essentials (i.e., what you need and what you intended to buy). Thus, before you get to the items for which you came to the supermarket in the first place, your cart will have been half-full of items you didn’t really intend to buy.

My advice: go through the non-essentials section (i.e., the front section of the supermarket) as fast as you can!

image from Microsoft Clipart with graphics by Ren Garcia

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