Life can be hectic – especially so in certain seasons (i.e., raising small children, working long hours, caring for others). Your local supermarket is super convenient. Is it really worth it to spend time comparing prices with other stores? (Spoiler – the answer is yes!)
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Having worked as an accountant my entire adult life you’d think I’d have been on board with this from day one. I love analysis. (Excel is my BFF!) But for some reason, digging into prices at the various stores in my area didn’t seem like a valuable use of my time. We were creatures of habit – generally hitting the large supermarket near our house on a Sunday afternoon for the main shopping run (along with 50% of the residents of our city, I’m pretty sure) and then stopping several more times during the week to pick up all the stuff we forgot the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pandemic was an eye-opener for me. Because I have heart rhythm issues and because, well, we don’t particularly enjoy being ill – especially with something that might kill us – we opted to stay close to home until we were fully vaccinated in the spring of 2021. Both my husband and I were working from home and our son was virtual schooling. No way were we going to set foot in a grocery store or any store for that matter if we didn’t have to. And for a year, we simply didn’t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If there’s one good thing that has come out of the pandemic, it’s curb pickup. Some stores had already dipped their toes in the water prior to 2020. Everyone was forced to pivot that direction or step up their game once things started shutting down. And let me tell you, even without comparison shopping we saved money by just driving up and having our pre-ordered groceries stuffed in the trunk of our car. Impulse purchases dropped to near zero!<\/p>\n\n\n\n