With this blog, I'd love to share some tips and tricks that I've learned living on one income.
One of those tips is to always, always, always check your receipt. I know you've got your hands full, most likely with a cart full of food... and probably are towing around your kiddos, but it's so important!
Yesterday I went on my big grocery trip. I went to five different stores, with two kids, by myself. (Yes, I wanted to give myself a heart attack and a few gray hairs, thanks for asking!) I have shopping down to a science, basically. Anyway, so I was leaving Giant and so I checked out my receipt. Yep, a big error. They charged me 4.99 for a 5 lb bag of potatoes that were only supposed to be .99 cents! So I walked back in, checked out the potatoes and realized they were out of the .99 cent potatoes. I went up to the customer service counter and asked for a refund and a rain check. The lady was nice enough about it, and I ended up getting a nicer bag of potatoes for .99 cents. She offered me the rain check still, and I should have taken it, but silly me wasn't thinking clearly, because the entire time my boys were grabbing things off the shelves at customer service. I was thisclose to buying them a box of candy to quiet them, but I stood strong and didn't give in!
Then, at Safeway, they had a great deal on yogurt. Buy 4 get 4 free. Currently the Safeways in our area, they have "new" flavors that are marked down to 40 cents a piece. So I picked up 8 yogurt cups in the "new" flavors of Blueberry Cobbler and Apple Gogiberry. I went through the line, and saw the error that they were not taking off the 4. I asked the cashier and she went to look, then came back and said she didn't know why it wouldn't take them off. I took my receipt straight up to customer service and within minutes I had an additional 1.60 back! Woohoo!
It almost always pays to check out your receipt!
One of those tips is to always, always, always check your receipt. I know you've got your hands full, most likely with a cart full of food... and probably are towing around your kiddos, but it's so important!
Yesterday I went on my big grocery trip. I went to five different stores, with two kids, by myself. (Yes, I wanted to give myself a heart attack and a few gray hairs, thanks for asking!) I have shopping down to a science, basically. Anyway, so I was leaving Giant and so I checked out my receipt. Yep, a big error. They charged me 4.99 for a 5 lb bag of potatoes that were only supposed to be .99 cents! So I walked back in, checked out the potatoes and realized they were out of the .99 cent potatoes. I went up to the customer service counter and asked for a refund and a rain check. The lady was nice enough about it, and I ended up getting a nicer bag of potatoes for .99 cents. She offered me the rain check still, and I should have taken it, but silly me wasn't thinking clearly, because the entire time my boys were grabbing things off the shelves at customer service. I was thisclose to buying them a box of candy to quiet them, but I stood strong and didn't give in!
Then, at Safeway, they had a great deal on yogurt. Buy 4 get 4 free. Currently the Safeways in our area, they have "new" flavors that are marked down to 40 cents a piece. So I picked up 8 yogurt cups in the "new" flavors of Blueberry Cobbler and Apple Gogiberry. I went through the line, and saw the error that they were not taking off the 4. I asked the cashier and she went to look, then came back and said she didn't know why it wouldn't take them off. I took my receipt straight up to customer service and within minutes I had an additional 1.60 back! Woohoo!
It almost always pays to check out your receipt!
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