COST EFFICIENT GROCERY-ING 2

You look at your cupboard & refrigerator and list down items you need to buy at the supermarket.

Supermarkets are minefields of unnecessary expenses. The supermarket is laid out to make you buy more. The standard layout of a supermarket places the non-essentials (many of which are things you want and not really need) right after the check-out counter, nearest the entrance, and the first things that assail your senses of sight & smell.

As you go through the non-essentials section, you are placing goodies into your cart which are not on your list and not in your budget. Before you reach the essentials section where the items on your list are stocked, you will have spent most of your budget for that trip. When you have placed the needed items in your cart, you will have spent more than you intended (and, probably, can’t really afford).

My advice: go straight & as fast as you can to the sections where the items on your grocery list are stocked!

image from Microsoft Clipart with graphics by Ren Garcia