IS BIGGER REALLY BETTER????

Natalie Molloy

B.J's , is bigger necessarily better? If you're reading this article you may be a "little" disappointed. The topic I'm "touching" on may not be what your curiosity led you to , however , I am a mother of three rapidly growing boys and I am always looking for the better solution. So, I ask again moms, dads when you do your shopping for your household do feel buying in bulk (bigger) is economically beneficial or is it smoke and mirrors?


My food bill each week keeps growing. Makes sense , I mean after all so are my kids. I've tried the B.J's thing , but I have to say , sometimes I feel that the more I have the more they eat. it doesn't last any longer, unless of course I'm purchasing paper goods or garbage bags at some ridiculous bulk size amount. Then, everything comes in over sized boxes and bags, HELLO - where am I storing all of this crap? Part of me wants them to eat everything just to create more space in my home!

How much am I really saving anyway? I'm spending way more than I do in the supermarket, but hey - I just bought half a cow? I don't know - I can't make sense of it. So I ask your help. What tricks of the trade do you have in grocery shopping?

I've watched that show "Extreme Couponing" and I can't wrap my brain around that either. These people shop and walk out with one hundred boxes of Cheerios - healthy, yes - breakfast , lunch & dinner - NO! Then they show their homes and the things they've stocked up on, really, nothing I could use or force myself to do so.

So , I turn to you - the public. Weigh in here, and help out a fellow shopper. Are you a believer in bulk, or does the intimate setting of your local grocer satisfy you?

NEW PACKAGE...SAME GREAT TASTE

 

Marion Pellicano Ambrose

I went grocery shopping today and spent $118. I bought all the things I usually buy, spent about the same as I usually do (maybe a little more) but I noticed that I had fewer bags to carry. It made me wonder what was going on. At first I thought “Maybe the bag boy missed a few bags.”, but then I realized that I watched him pack and load my cart and everything went in.

When I was unpacking at home it finally came to me. While I was still paying the same price for things, the packaging they came in has mysteriously gotten smaller! It wasn’t easy to detect with some things until I checked the ounces on the package. Ice cream was easy, the ½ gallon carton now looks like it was made for a little girl’s play kitchen, but my mayonnaise bottle had 4 less ounces than before and the packaging read “bright new package, same great taste!”  It may have the same taste, but they’re charging me the same amount of money and giving me less product. I could care less about the bright new packaging!