food shopping

7 Supermarket Tricks You Can Use To Save Money

Supermarket Tricks

Save Money Fast!

On Monday we discussed 7 Tricks Supermarkets Use To Get You To Spend More.  Some of these tricks are subtle while others are obvious, but now that you’re aware of them, you’ll have your guard up next time you go food shopping.

These tricks were mostly obtained from a Reader’s Digest slideshow which had a few more tips and tricks.  Most of them were not relevant so I decided to summarize the ways supermarkets try to influence you into spending more money – and add a few of my own.

The slideshow also mentioned a few tricks you can use to SAVE money on some items while food shopping, but since I don’t really want you to go through 50 slides of mostly useless information, I’ll summarize the ones I found more useful.

7 Tricks Supermarkets Use To Get You To Spend More

Supermarket Tricks

Oh So Pretty… maybe I should buy more stuff!

Besides a mortgage or rent, food shopping is one of the biggest expenses in most households.  The main reason behind this expense is because we have to eat to survive.  And since most of us are too lazy to grow our own food, we love to pay for the convenience of having other people grow our food so we just have to pick it up at the store.

We’ve already covered ways you could save money food shopping, but we should also be aware of some of the tricks supermarkets use to try to get us to spend more.  Reader’s Digest put together a list of 50 supermarket tricks you still fall for, but some of them are not even tricks and the article is a series of slides (51 freaking slides) that keep you clicking around until your hands go numb. I should write about “50 website tricks to keep you on their sites longer”… making you click through 51 slides is one of them.

Here I’ll summarize the most important points in the article and add a few more that I’ve learned along the way.