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Supermarkets are built with tricks and challenges designed to make you spend more than you planned. But with a little preparation, you can safely avoid them and save money. We have some grocery tips this week!
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Two Cents is hosted by Philip Olson, CFP® and Julia Lorenz-Olson
Directors: Katie Graham & Andrew Matthews
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Music by: APM
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Stock footage from Prelinger Archives.
Very great info!
Thanks!
Best advice I've gotten is shop the perimeter. The sides and back are where the meat, dairy, produce, and eggs are and the shelves in the middle are where the processed and premade food is (worse for you and more expensive). I'll go in the middle aisles for pasta, rice, beans, etc. Sometimes but avoid instant meals and junk food.
just found the video and its not hard to decide that I like it really much. Thank you guys.. a fun way to share infos
bring 2 lits. one for what you need and one for what you want. then save up for the wants
Best tip is don't go to the shops hungry. I made that mistake and came back with so many extra snacks.
I'd love to know if those scanners that you carry round with you now make a difference in spending?
Going supermarket with cash, is a big game changer for our savings I think.
Man is it just me or does the script of this video seem extremely similar to Food theories video? I get the facts are the same but the word order was extremely similar. It’s kinda cool cause both these channels are amazing in their own ways. The videos are also quite similar <333
5:55, maybe, but they're still monopolies paid off by cancerous & socially irresponsible food brands, some of which have histories of past of current slavery.
If you're lucky enough to have a local grocery store, check it out! Some are just the same crap, but many don't do any of this crap, and have more local and small farm options, rather than feeding monopolies. If it's a "health food" store it will have much better organic options.
Walmart Ryan Reynolds do be giving good advice to shop at Walmart.
Everytime I go to walmart for little things, I always run to the automotive section 😂
1:24-Jokes on them!I planned to buy junk food from the very start!
You guys are great.
dont go hungry part would be nice but its impossible on competition diet
Carrying cash would make me spend easy and more. Because it feels I have lots of money. Using credit card feels I have more in dept with each purchase, I feel poorer. So it is not a good idea for me to cary just cash.
I started using store gift cards instead of cash (after leaving all debit cards at home), because it achieves the same goal; to ONLY spend what’s available.
My local Walmart has seriously 5 short carts and only big carts,that’s ok because they still have trash cans outside so I can save on garbage pick up
I bring carrying bags to the grocery store. I fill them up and well when full I can not buy more… Just fill tthe bag or two bags up VERY much
Some heavy rock and metal works as well to get fast through 😉
That's why I do grocery shopping online with my list on a Google Doc side-by-side. Less temptation. Way less time wasted.
Thank You
Shake water of lettuce? Cmon. Also stores hope you don’t notice the cheaper stuff? Cheaper stuff is their generic brands usually and they make more money off that than name brand sales. You make this list up?
Am I the only one who’s the amount of food is dictated by how hungry I am during the moment? I normally don’t really care so much about the price discounts but rather, which branded product I tried that I ended up liking, which then will get more of.
Trenchcoats are the new meta for saving money
Now that they watch us, constantly, via camera, I like to psych them out as punishment for their other bad behaviors. For example, when I have to wait too long in line (because they have many cash registers, but only one or two cashiers), I start pulling things out of my basket. It's a penalty they have to pay, for wasting my time. Also, when they move everything so that we can't find what we're looking for, I'll either stop shopping there for weeks or sometimes months at a time, or ask the cashier (or other employee) where I can find absolutely everything on my grocery list. That way the store's time (money) gets wasted too. An absolute genius I know likes to select an item that's been moved (for example, all of the crunchy skippy) and put it back to the place where customers are expecting to find it. It's not subtle at all, and very much appreciated by those of us looking for groceries!
I don't bother with a shopping cart, most of the time. If I'm walking that day, I use a basket to make sure I don't buy too much to carry all the way home, or else I load the groceries directly into my backpack. If I'm driving, I use my wheeled cooler like a grocery cart (and sometimes a seat, too, for those long grocery lines). It makes life a lot easier.
Eat grass soup, roadkill and bark biscuits and you will never need ro go to supermarket again!!
Relaxing music? I wish it was true in our local Spar and Tesco.
4:47 whoever wrote that part of the script has no brain
It might be worth mentioning how end-caps and stand-alone displays in the isle are also designed to get you to buy things you weren't planning on buying.