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Bi Lo grocery store | August 31, 2013 | self

[Rodamala]

I don’t buy “store milk”, but instead half gallon glass bottles of raw milk from the local dairy. I did notice in the store that the “1 gallon” plastic milk containers look “different”. They haven’t gotten to milk, have they?

[Mad Dawgg]

My favorite one is the plastic jars of peanut butter or mayonnaise etc.

The jars look exactly the same size but they put a huge dimple in the bottom so you are getting an ounce or two less but charge you the same price or more.

Also notice cans of tuna fish will be packed with more water or oil but less fish.

And bags of Lays potato chips and such will have the same size bag but have much less in them. I have an old pic of my moms kitchen that had a brand new bag of chips and it said in Bold Letters "One Pound Bag". I got a new bag of chips and set it in the same place in the kitchen. Same size bag but waaaaay short of a pound.

Also noticed that two liter pop like Pepsi and such used to be available all of the time for a buck. Now you have to wait for a special sale BUT you can get a 1.5 liter bottle for a buck now. (I don't remember seeing these much until lately.)

[LongWayHome]

I buy almost all my household goods at Dollar Tree. Everythig is 1$. I figure I’m not getting screwed over too bad this way.

[SamAdams76]

Overall I'm a frugal person and I'm careful with how I spend my money but when it comes to groceries, I prefer to pay more and get the best. I go to the butcher shop for meat, the fish market for fish and to Whole Foods for produce, nuts, yogurts, eggs, etc.

I haven't had a box of processed cereal or a frozen food entree in my house for years. So they can change and shrink the packaging all they want because I'm not buying it.

It does mean grocery shopping several times a week because I'm buying mostly fresh food with short shelf life.

90% of what you find in a conventional supermarket is crap. And generally speaking, if they are offering coupons for it in newspaper flyers, you don't want to put that stuff on your kitchen table.

[SamAdams76]

Overall I'm a frugal person and I'm careful with how I spend my money but when it comes to groceries, I prefer to pay more and get the best. I go to the butcher shop for meat, the fish market for fish and to Whole Foods for produce, nuts, yogurts, eggs, etc.

I haven't had a box of processed cereal or a frozen food entree in my house for years. So they can change and shrink the packaging all they want because I'm not buying it.

It does mean grocery shopping several times a week because I'm buying mostly fresh food with short shelf life.

90% of what you find in a conventional supermarket is crap. And generally speaking, if they are offering coupons for it in newspaper flyers, you don't want to put that stuff on your kitchen table.