Have you been wondering why your grocery bill seems to be increasing every month? Maybe it is because you don’t know about these five little grocery shopping tricks. Grocery stores often use different marketing techniques to get you to spend more than than you planned to spend. don’t be sucked in to the madness. Know ahead of time just what the store is trying to do so you would stay from your budget.
In this series, I’ll go through the five little grocery shopping tricks and tell you all about them, including how to avoid having the store take advantage of you.
Sometimes with sales, you may see a sign or a notation on a sales flyer that says “limit 5” (or 6, 10, 12, etc). The stores do this to set you in a panic and reinforce the idea of a good deal. You only came into the store for one or two, but you want to get what is coming to you. You want your full ration of products, even if you don’t need them. What if they run out? There must be a shortage.
You also may think that this sale may be a phenomenal deal simply because of the limit. The limit must be there to ensure that people don’t stock up. Wrong. One recent limit sale I saw was a whopping 5 cents off per can of tuna, hardly a bargain of the century.
How do you avoid this trap and recognize whether or not the limit sale is a good deal? The best way is to really know your prices, either in your head through experience or with the aid of a price book. You can also check those tags beneath the items on the store shelves to see what the normal price of the item is. If you need the tuna, go ahead and buy it, but you’re probably better off waiting for an even better sale to come along or buying it in bulk.
Click here for more articles by Mary Ann Romans.
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