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Posted by admin on Oct 14, 2009
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Grocery Deals Website Serves Up Big Savings
Posted by admin on Oct 31, 2009
Sandy Harper handles the grocery budget for her family of eight in Tucson, Arizona. “Our youngest is one and our oldest is ten,” says Sandy. “Saving on groceries is very important at our house.” But with six children, Sandy doesn’t have time to hunt through stacks of supermarket flyers looking for bargains. Instead, Sandy is a member of a web site called mygrocerydeals.com. She found mygrocerydeals.com early in 2008 when she was searching for ‘grocery deals’ and that was the last time she needed to run that search. “I use mygrocerydeals.com every week to quickly scan for the best prices on the items on my list and to watch for especially good deals.”
In Oak Lawn, Illinois, Ann Hayes has four boys in private school. “I never miss a chance to save on groceries,” says Ann. She uses coupons and will look at the flyers that land on her doorstep but she prefers the time-saving convenience of mygrocerydeals.com. “It’s no different than somebody taking the inserts and circulars and flipping through the ads and kind of making a list,” says Ann. “[I've] never been real good with lists and doing things that way. This way, it’s just the technology does it all for me.”
That technology is mygrocerydeals.com, launched in 2004 by co-founders Paul Davis and John Scott. The two had been building and operating internet and technology companies for several years. Along the way they developed a strong sense of how to deliver value through the web. With mygrocerydeals.com, they set their sights on delivering some of that value to the largest group of consumers in the world: grocery buyers.
Both Scott and Davis have backgrounds in research and several years of experience with online survey systems. With many consumer product companies as their customers they gained valuable insight into the grocery business where the coupon is a standard promotional tool. The two watched closely as coupon sites started to spring up on the web but they weren’t convinced. They believed that the coupon clipping sub-culture was much smaller than the market they wanted to help. “Coupon clipping, the filing and organizing and scheduling; all of that takes time and dedication,” says Scott. “Many families have trouble finding that time.” Scott and Davis felt that there was a need for a web-based grocery savings comparison service that was fast and easy to use; one that could every grocery shopper could use to save money.
They began the research, starting with a review of their own families’ grocery shopping methods. They realized that it was all about the deals in the flyers, the supermarket circulars in the weekend papers, the weekly specials. They were all using the flyers to tweak their weekly grocery shopping trips according to the stores offering the best prices. More formal research revealed that nearly eighty percent of American households do the same thing. Their vision for mygrocerydeals.com became clear.
Davis and Scott envisioned a service that would capture the grocery savings flyers–all of them, from coast to coast–and make them available online for quick comparison. With that key information in place, they knew from their own grocery shopping behavior that users of their service would want a way to create a grocery shopping list and a way to match the items on the list to the best prices in the weekly flyers. Most important, the founders knew that their customers would want to use these services every week, fifty two weeks of the year. With the experience, the expertise, and a compelling vision, they went to work with a team of technology and business professionals to build mygrocerydeals.com.
Mygrocerydeals.com is a free grocery savings search engine web site that has become a weekly destination for 250,000 members. Every week, mygrocerydeals.com captures and organizes the specials, sales, and deals in the flyers published by more than 25,000 stores across the country including Alaska and Hawaii. Visitors to mygrocerydeals.com use their email address and Zip Code to create a unique, password-protected membership account. Members can see every flyer deal at every store in their region or they can narrow their search to find only the deals at their favorite supermarkets and food stores. “Mygrocerydeals.com has been called the Google of grocery savings,” says Davis. “And that is a great way to understand its power, but it is much more than that.” Davis calls mygrocerydeals.com a complete grocery savings system where members create and save their grocery lists and use the powerful search functions to match the items on their list to the best prices in the flyers. “They print the grocery shopping list right from the member account and they’re off to the stores to stock up and save.”
In addition to the grocery shopping list and grocery savings search engine capability, mygrocerydeals.com serves up a full complement of grocery coupons. “Our coupon clipping members love the chance to save twice,” says Scott. “The first savings come from the flyer deals and a second helping comes from coupons.” Scott points out that stockpiling of freezer and non-perishable grocery items is an increasingly important budgeting technique and the combining of flyer pricing and coupons is an increasingly popular way to stretch the household dollars.
Ann Hayes of Oak Lawn, IL has been a member at mygrocerydeals.com since 2007. She believes that using mygrocerydeals.com saves her at least fifty dollars each week. “If I’m going to buy something, I can find which store has it on sale at the cheapest price,” says Anne. “At least I know, at the very least, I’ve saved something.”
Sandy Harper pushes her savings to another level. She combines coupons and the best deals on mygrocerydeals.com and gets many items for free. “I have more than twenty-four rolls of paper towel in my cupboard and I got them all for free,” she says. “Before, my weekly grocery bill was more than three hundred dollars but now it is less than one hundred and twenty dollars.”
Scott and Davis offer a rough calculation. “If every member of mygrocerydeals.com is saving as much as one hundred dollars every week, we could be helping American householders get twenty five million dollars worth of free groceries every week,” says Scott. “Not bad at all,” adds Davis.
The site was formally launched in 2004 and the company continues to add features to help members manage not only the family budget but also the family’s well-being. “Mygrocerydeals.com is the only grocery savings site that gives premium members integrated access to complete nutritional information and allergy alerts,” says Davis. Davis and Scott both believe that saving money should never mean compromising good eating habits. “Mygrocerydeals.com brings all of the important decision-making information into one easy to use service,” says Scott. “The food items, the favorite stores, the best prices, the label data on nutritional content and ingredients, and the critically important allergen warnings are all here at mygrocerydeals.com.”
The founders and their team are proud of their creation but they attribute most of the success to the members of mygrocerydeals.com. “Our members guide us,” says Davis. “Members choose the features they want us to build and tell us about the stores they want included.” The site boasts more than a quarter of a million members and the number of new members registering every week is on the rise. Television stations and newspapers as far apart as New York City and Southern California have also taken notice in recent months. “Media coverage is just great exposure,” says Davis, “but again, it is the membership spreading the word to friends and family that makes us feel most proud. When people are eager to share the great grocery savings search engine they found on the web, we know we are getting it right.”
For mygrocerydeals.com, getting it right means more of the same. The company’s goal is to attract one million members. Scott and Davis think that goal may be reached sooner rather than later, in part because of current economic conditions. “No one planned it this way but this is certainly a very, very good time to be saving all you can on your groceries,” says Davis.
“And we’re proud to be helping,” says Scott.
Brett McAteer
http://www.articlesbase.com/personal-finance-articles/grocery-deals-website-serves-up-big-savings-730121.html
Online Internet Shopping
Posted by admin on Oct 31, 2009
Online Internet Shopping is a great way to cash in on the special offers made by companies and stores offering a whole range of products and services. Discounts range from gift certificates, bargain sales, clearances to free shipping offers to even free product offers. Also available are last minute hotel booking deals and online reservations. People who make their ticket reservations online benefit from a discounted rate as compared to people who book their tickets the traditional way by standing in queues at ticket counters. This is a great way to benefit from discounted rates.
One can purchase almost all kinds of products, online or offline. Because of the rising competition in the consumerist market today, companies want to gain a higher market-share and they offer discounts on all sorts of products and services. Discounts, are however, usually seen on products like food items, grocery items, clothing, consumer durables like mobile phones, electrical appliances, digital cameras, MP3 players, DVD players, services like body massaging, gym memberships, club and resort memberships, face toning, weight loss, etc. Some companies offer discounts on bulk purchases.
While discounted shopping may be available in online stores, gift certificates are usually less available on the internet. Besides, these are not seen on the official homepage of the company often. It is usually an online dealer who offers a lot of discounts.
Benefits of Online Internet Shopping:
By far, one of the biggest benefits of Online Internet Shopping is, of course, the kind of savings you can make on your purchases. Discount Shopping offers you cheap, cut-off prices on even branded products and services that you would otherwise have to spend a great deal more on. It could be that otherwise expensive birthday gift, dream camera, high definition LCD TV, etc. With discount shopping, you get it at discounted prices, and there is no compromise on quality or after sales services.
Be sure to avoid scams, though. Get a clear picture of the actual price – compare the discounted rate, inclusive of the shipping price, taxes and duties, etc. against the market price. Read the fine-print very carefully. Another important thing to remember is to make sure that you read and understand the vendor’s return and money-back policies. Be sure to read these terms very carefully.
Towards the end, we’d just like to tell you that all it takes is a couple of minutes to search and you could soon be saving a lot of money, and even time, if purchasing online. Do your research and act wisely to obtain the benefits.
Chandra
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-marketing-articles/online-internet-shopping-385240.html
Detecting Early Credit Problems
Posted by admin on Oct 31, 2009
Keeping yourself trouble free with your credit requires a close eye on your credit report and asking yourself some difficult questions. Sometimes it is harder to be honest with yourself than with a stranger. In order for you to stave off credit problems, you must be brutally honest with yourself.
Getting into financial trouble is easier than ever nowadays. Credit card companies are competing harder than ever for your business. People are getting and carrying more credit cards. Just a few years ago most people only carried one maybe two credit cards. Now, it’s not unusual for someone to have eight or nine cards on them.
With so many cards on your person, it’s real easy to get into trouble. To keep yourself out of trouble you need to sit down and evaluate your credit situation. Do you really need that many cards? If you think you are in or heading for financial trouble, ask yourself:
1. When you buy groceries is your credit card the only way you can pay?
2. Are you borrowing money to make payments on existing loans?
3. Are you being charged late fees on your bills month after month? (Don’t have to be consecutive months)
4. Do you have a hard time deciding which bills to pay?
5. Are your credit cards at the limit most or all the time?
6. Can you only afford to pay the minimum each month?
7. Have you deferred going to the doctor or some other important appointment because you couldn’t afford it?
8. Do you spend 20% or more of your net income on credit card bills?
9. Do you have a second job or a lot of overtime to pay your basic expenses?
Answer yes to any of these and you are either heading into or already in financial trouble. Chances are that you or someone you know is now or have been in this situation. Although it may seem difficult to get out of this kind of trouble, it’s not impossible. You have to recognize that you are in trouble and learn to cope. Then start looking for a way to stabilize and restore your credit.
There are several options open to you. Talk to your creditors and try to work out a payment plan that you both can agree on. Try to get them to waive your fees and/or lower your interest rate. If you can’t do that or think you need help you can hire a credit counseling organization.
The last thing you can do is file for bankruptcy. Bankruptcy is not to be taken lightly as it can stay on your credit record for 10 years. This should be your very last option. Make absolutely sure you have exhausted all your options before you consider bankruptcy.
Copyright 2007 Robert Hughes
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If you had 10 minutes to get FREE groceries at the supermarket..what aisle would you attack ?
Posted by admin on Oct 30, 2009
Haha.. um.. I’d just start at one end and grab whatever I want as fast as I can.
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what site can print grocery coupons free w/out signing up for offers?
Posted by admin on Oct 30, 2009
http://www.couponbug.com
http://print.coupons.com/couponweb/Offers.aspx?pid=13292&zid=sr67&nid=10
I have to get groceries in a few… should I start a food fight or shopping cart races while I’m there?
Posted by admin on Oct 30, 2009
I need to spice things up and keep things exciting while getting groceries.
What do you think? Tossing food at each other? Start shopping cart races with the old people?
Today is free sample day and they have the old ladies there handing out the tiny bits of cookies and what not. I could just stand there and talk her ear off as I eat all the samples. Too bad they never have samples of beer or wine. That would rock.
Get high before you go so it will be funnier. Do you have your Halloween Costume? Put it on if you do (and take one of those little pumpkins). While you are eating the samples keep asking for a "bigger piece". Don’t talk to them – sing to them. Sing The Whisper Song by YY Twins. I like to put $hit in the old people’s buggies. They freak out when they get to the register and fight with each other. ♥
What is a good website for free grocery coupons?
Posted by admin on Oct 30, 2009
The best place to look for this type of coupons is SearchAllDeals. Just start with a search term like "grocery coupons". Here is a direct link to the search result:
http://www.searchalldeals.com/results.html?cx=006616979543893323550%3Aydieztwyczu&q=grocery+coupons&sa=Search+60%2B+sites&cof=FORID%3A10
Does anyone know of a free grocery coupn book that can be mailed to your home?
Posted by admin on Oct 30, 2009
I used to get free coupn books mailed to me, but all of a sudden it stopped. Does anyone know of a site that i can request one? Groceries in particular. I dont have a printer so i cant print them.
Ours are delivered weekly, contact your supermarkets if you are not getting them.
Fresh food pantries, meals – Ithaca Journal
Posted by admin on Oct 30, 2009
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Fresh food pantries, meals
Ithaca Journal Fresh Food Pantries provides produce, breads, desserts, dairy, deli, and groceries. Here is a list of some available in the area: * Loaves and Fishes. Free … |