It’s cookout season! As you prepare for your next family barbecue, a trip to the grocery store is most likely going to be needed. Keep more coins in your Mason Jar with these tips on spotting the best deal at the grocery store!
- Look at more than just eye-level. Shelf space and placement is a hot commodity in stores. The eye-level items may not be the best priced, but rather the company that paid the most for that shelf space. Look high and low on the shelf for other options of the same item.
- Take a second look at the generic brand. Now there might be items that your family isn’t willing to go generic on, but many times the generic brand (like Meijer or Spartan) is just as tasty if not better for less than ½ the cost!
- Bulk is not always better. Look at the price and total quantity of the per pound option vs the bulk before assuming the bulk is better. Often times bulk is exactly the same cost per unit. If your family really really loves that item and would have no issue eating it before it spoils, then bulk may be the way to go, but not always. There’s nothing worse than thinking you got a great deal, to end up throwing half of it away because it went bad in the back of the pantry.
- Read your coupons carefully. Some coupons are the golden ticket and save you tons, and then some don’t end up saving you that much at all. If a coupon requires you to buy 10 of the item to get the discount then you could run into the bulk isn’t always better issue. Or sometimes a coupon on a brand name item still makes the item more expensive then the generic substitute!
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ways is your family being smart with their coins this summer? Follow Honor Credit Union on twitter @honorcu and let us know using #askhonorcu!
Listen to Scott & Wild Bill talk about their tips for grocery shopping in this week's Mason Jar Monday!
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