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The Great Supermarket Conspiracy

Posted on19 Jan 2010

Maybe I smoked too much pot when I was in high school and my brain cells are all shriveled up but I SWEAR the supermarkets are in cahoots with each other. I think they hold secret meetings weekly and decide who is going to reduce prices on certain items and increase the price on others so they can get people to shop at each store. For example – I go to store “A” and they have coffee for $5.99 instead of the $9.99 at store “B”. Store “B” has ice cream for $3.99 while store “A” sells it for $5.99 – this is where the conspiracy comes in. Instead of the stores fighting against each other for our business they have us doing all the work, shopping at every store, running around trying to find out who has the lowest prices that week. I never want to become one of those crazy people who run all over town, spending hours and gallons of gas to save a dollar on a roll of TP. I do two big shoppings a month – I go in and get everything I need for the next 2 weeks – I don’t want to have to go to more than one store to do my shopping. When did buying food turn into some kind of game? It’s like the great race – they send out a flyer with directions to all the best deals on the eastern seaboard and you spend the next month of your life trying to save an extra buck. Why can’t one store just give you the best deal every single time you go there. Where is the loyalty? Quit playing footsies with the store down the street in the hopes that you might steal a couple of their customers and take care of the people who already spend all of their money in your store! Makes me want to scream!!!

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http://www.redheadranting.com/ Jen

I stopped running from store to store when I realized it wasn’t worth my time of the gas I used to do this. I do check out the Sunday ads and see who is offering what, I even clip coupons though I forget to bring them most times I go to the store.
http://www.redheadranting.com/ Jen

that should be “or” the gas.
http://mymommyconfessions.blogspot.com mama mia

hi! i’m from manila, philippines. my husband used to “think the same way”…until i made him realize that it’s not practical for us to be driving around just so we could save a few bucks whenever we do our weekend grocery-shopping. like jen says, it doesnt help us with our gas consumption.

so now, we just go to one supermarket & just buy everything we need from there — meats, veggies, snacks, other grocery & household items. it also helps that the store we patronize has a really cool loyalty program & so we get big rebates and great shopping privileges every so often
http://www.injaynesworld.blogspot.com/ injaynesworld

Great minds think alike, as they say. I was thinking exactly the same thing this week. If a store can put coffee on sale one week, why can’t they just sell it for that price all the time? I live in a rural area and we have two locally owned stores and then out near the highway there’s a giant corporate Albertsen’s. Because I want my money to stay in the community I shop at one of the more expensive local stores most of the time — and still they jack me around with their stupid “sales.” Currently on the “poverty-and-stress” diet, so I’ve outwitted them with my meager purchases.
sheila

I swear, I wish I could just stop buying food all together – kind of impossible when you have 3 kids with bottomless pits!
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