Archive for the ‘Shopping’ Category
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Dawn over at Frugal For Life discusses some of the ethical implications of stockpiling foods. She gets into a few rules of thumb for testing to see whether stockpiling has crossed into greed, or just plain inconsideration. Talking to the store to have them do a special large-quantity order is ...
Posted in Economy, Frugal Living, Shopping | 10 Comments »
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
This weekend I saw a sign for a very important-sounding event:
Remerchandising Relinquishment!
It was on a sign for a store sale. I was curious what the heck this means so I did a Google search for it. Only 186 hits came up (which is pretty paltry considering Google indexes 17.1 jillion ...
Posted in Shopping | 2 Comments »
Saturday, August 29th, 2009
Saw some recent retweets of my post on why you should stay far, far, far away from Swoopo (thanks to @SFBoater and @BidzillaDOTcom) and it reminded me of an important change that Swoopo had made recently.
A quick recap of the characteristics that made Swoopo (before the change, anyway) little more ...
Posted in Deals and Steals, Shopping | 1 Comment »
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
I'm very glad that Wegmans has come to our neck of the woods, and that they've continued to double manufacturers' coupons. It's been quite a while since a grocer local to me has offered this.
Growing up, I remember that there used to be a limit on which coupons they'd double. ...
Posted in Frugal Living, Shopping | 3 Comments »
