Monday, June 23rd, 2008
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Lately I’ve been shopping like a maniac. It’s not what you think. I’ve been hanging out at the grocery store instead of the Coach store, heheh. Reason being that we’ve decided to eat out less seeing as how prices are creeping up.
We are making good progress. I’m cooking school lunches every day and the kids are (surprise!) lovin’ it. It’s possible that I’m a darned good cook but didn’t know it 
.
At any rate, I’ve discarded all loyalties to any grocery store. I’m looking to save money so the lowest bidder gets the sale, so to speak. I’m doing my homework online, comparing prices first before going out.
I shop wherever I happen to be at. No more making trips specially to my favorite stores. We’re all creatures of habit. If we like to shop there, we keep going back. No more! Now it’s whoever offers the best price wins.
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Do you check the prices on your grocery bill after you pay or do you assume that everything’s hunky dory? If you don’t, join the club of millions who don’t either.
Well, I wised up after I noticed that I was being overcharged, nothing much, just a few cents here and there. But a few cents do add up at stores which are consistently not up to mark with synchronizing the pricing at the shelf with the pricing at the cash register.
When the clerk swipes our items across the barcode reader, we typically don’t bother looking at the display because we take it for granted that everything’s electronically programmed (as opposed to being manually entered) so it must all be correct.
I read somewhere that grocery chains make millions in excess revenue a year just from overcharging each customer by a few cents. Multiply that by the volume of customers and goods that go through checkout and it shouldn’t be that hard to imagine.
I check my bill diligently now before I leave the store. Things are expensive enough as they are without me paying more than I should be. Needlessly!
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
As usual, I was rummaging around for a meal idea and came across a box of instant mushroom and chicken soup with 3 sachets inside.
I’m not much good with the proportions. Somehow I always get them wrong even when I follow the instructions on the pack. When I used one sachet, the soup was too diluted.
So I put it back on the boil, added a bit more water and threw in the other 2 sachets. It was thicker and seemed to even look slightly edible. Actually it was the worst thing I ever tasted.
Soup in a can tastes somewhat better but it’s too high sodium for my tastebuds. I thought sachets might work out better but evidently not. I won’t be trying any more sachets or soups for a long time, thanks.
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