Grocery savings
We have become more efficient with using coupons for grocery shopping than before. We go to the same store every week and use the grocery store card that gathers and tracks all the grocery spending information. At the bottom of the bill, it shows a cumulative total of all the money saved with coupons and other promotions. I remember for 2008, our total was just shy of $200. This year it is already $240 and we still have 5 more months to go.
A few months ago, Stop&Shop introduced a scan-it, a scanner device that lets you scan your groceries when you put them in your cart directly in grocery bags, preferably reusable bags, not plastic ones. Stop&Shop offers 5c discount for each reusable bag that you bring to the store. At the checkout counter, you scan a barcode at the register and it downloads you shopping cart into the register. Saves a lot of time as you are not handling the stuff you bought again and again. Some special savings and coupons get added when you use the scan-it device. This definitely accounts for our increased savings at the grocery store. Also, we try to buy things that we normally use when they are on sale, rather than waiting till we run out of them.
Sunday paper is a good source of grocery coupons but, we didn’t find any other use for the paper and stopped buying it. Now, we get our coupons from Couponmom.com and e-coupons at Upromise.com.
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