Extreme Couponing at the Grocery Store….. So many consumers these days want to know, “How do I extreme coupon at the grocery store?” Well I want to give you a big grocery store extreme couponing tip so you can save your hard earned cash and spend it on the things in life that are most important – family and fun!
The biggest thing I want to stress about extreme couponing at the grocery store is the importance of grocery shopping at more than 1 grocery store. Many people just keep going to the same grocery store week after week and they wonder why they aren’t getting the savings in that 50% to 70% range that other shoppers earn. Well the answer is shopping with more than one store so I’m going to ask you to scrap store loyalty to just one grocery store and consider these money savings ideas.
Let’s say that you have 3 grocery stores in your area of convenience. Your area of convenience is the area you pass by on your way to work, school, the doctors or any errands that you run on a weekly basis. Each week you should spread out the sale circular of all 3 grocery stores and take a quick inventory of the items on sale, the coupons you currently have in your coupon stash or that you can print on line, and your families’ weekly meal plan (meal planning is a another “Frugal School” class. Meal planning helps with weight loss or maintenance, food waste, cutting weekly food costs, & most importantly the dinner crunch hour of “What to make?”)
Now whichever grocery store works out to have the best sales that match your coupons and the needs of your family will be the one where you’ll do the main bulk of your shopping that week but you’ll also want to run into a second grocery store for just a few items. Let me explain. 1 of the other 2 grocery stores is bound to have something else on sale that is a great deal – like that chicken breast for example. That “other” store has boneless skinless breasts on sale for $1.99lb and maybe broccoli crowns for 99¢lb. So in that example you’d do the main bulk of your shopping at the store that you match ups with your family’s needs plus you’d run into the second grocery just for those 2 items that are at their rock bottom lowest sale price. If you made the decision to purchase broccoli and chicken breasts at the other grocery store where you were doing the main bulk of your grocery shopping chicken may have been $4.99lb that week and broccoli at $1.89lb. That would have meant your total overall savings would have been reduced. The second grocery store only would have taken 12 minutes to run in and now your savings on food that week is up in the 60% to 65% range. See the difference?
Now you won’t need to run into 2 grocery stores every single week but you may do it twice a month or sometimes 3 times a month depending on the sales. It’s a great way for consumers to increase their savings and keep more cash in their pockets!
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