Recap part two...shopping

There are a lot of stores that carry food.
After your assessment of the best chain stores, pick two for the week.
our chain stores are SAFEWAYS, ALBERTSONS, QFC (Kroger) and TOP.

No one store has the best prices.  SAFEWAYS and top are more often , but when QFC and ALBERTSONS are really good when they have a good sale.

Besides the chain stores, there are warehouse stores--Costco , Sams Club, WinCo ..  SAMs  club and Costco require memberships.  Some prices are better in bulk, some are not.  I purchase some staples in gross quantity because they don't go bad fast and it just makes my life easier not to have them n my grocery list.  Cornstarch, salt, come to mind. Somethings are a good buy, but unless you can share the cost of a unit, it is not practical. Beans come to mind.   our Costco  membership pays us to shop.  Winco offers a 10.00 off of 50.00 coupon  every  so often.  It's your best bet for rock bottom.  They also have a really extensive bulk section.

Then come the over stock stores.  We have grocery outlet and big lots.  GrocerymOutletmhasma large variety of Mexican food.  They have non designer coffee cheap.  Also, a wide variety of cheeses, some cheaper, some not so much.  Sometimes the produce is really good.

Big Lots and the Dollar Tree have a small selection of food.  the dollar tree has spices, tortillas, frozen potatoes, veggies, and HOT poppers, Salami and pepperoni. Big Lots has a 20 percent off the entire store one day only some of the time.  I can usually do good with sauerkraut, diced tomatoes, tomato  paste, baby food, facial tissues, pasta and veggie chips.  My husband likes hot pickles.

I have had luck with Bartells Drug store for limited food.  Rite aid has almost nome since they started carrying booze.  We don't have  a Walgreens yet, so I will have to see.

We have a fresh food market during the summer.  Sometimes the veggies and fruit are cheaper in season.

We just got,an IGA.  The veggie section had good prices, I haven't had time to check the rest of the store.

We usually go to Costco on a need to go basis.  Bananas, TP, laundry soap are always cheaper.
Winco is further away as is the Bakery  outlet.  We hit them every four to six weeks or when Wimco has a coupon.

The overstock stores we hit when we are in the neighborhood running other errands.

Pick your grocery store by the price of their food.  I wouldn't go to a store that was filthy, but unless the condition of the store was really poor or in a unsafe part of town,  I'm ok.  Don't go to a grocery store because it is quiet,because the clerks ar friendlier, or because they have the best coffee.  you are going to the grocery store to buy your food and still have some money at the end of the month.
if you are going to the lots of bucks food store, just remember,  someone is paying for the atmosphere, the music and the lack of stuff in your food, you can guess who that someone  is! LOL
If going to the grocery store is your whole social life, then you need to get a life.  Ha ha

All I'm all, once you are organized,  you should get through the grocery buying process in the same time as you do now or less.

Thanks for stopping by

Jane



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