Grocery store pricing is sooo confusing! How do you know
whether the advertised sale is actually a good deal or not? Start with a price book.
As I would look through the sale ads on my lunch break, one of
my co-workers kept telling me that she would have to check her price book to
see if an item was really a good deal or not.
Upon further investigation, I found out that a price book is a way to
get started in saving money at the grocery store by tracking prices and sales
for items that you normally buy.
I decided I was going to try it.
I waited for a normal big grocery shopping trip. When I got home I sat down with my receipts, store ads, and
a used spiral notebook that I took out of my kid's room.
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You can make this as detailed or simple of a process as you
like. Mine was very simple because I just wanted a quick way to see what I was paying for the items I normally purchased. I just listed the prices I paid at each store.
For even more information you can make a more detailed price book including the break down of the quantity/price of the items you are buying.
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You can search price book printables on the web. Here is one that I found: http://organizedhome.com/sites/default/files/image/pdf/food_price_book.pdf
If you really want to get into tech savvy you can also build
your own spreadsheet. If you build your
spreadsheet in Google Docs, you can even view it from your iPhone with the
Google Drive App. I am sure there are
also mobile apps that can track this for you as well. I did a quick search on my iPhone and found
a couple...PriceBook and ValueTracker.
It only took me a few grocery shopping trips to have listed
most of the items that I routinely purchase at the grocery store. I would get the weekly sale ads and compare
them to my price book to see if that item was really a good deal or not. And if so…..stock up!
After doing this for a while, I didn’t need the price book
anymore because I learned what price I would consider a good deal on those
items.
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