Friday, August 3, 2007

Grocery Shopping Adventure...


Gail and I have been trying to manage our monthly budget a lot better lately. He took the finance class at church by Gary Niederlehner, and has suddenly been obsessed to listening to Dave Ramsey who is a really cool Christian finance guy on the radio.Well today Gail and I went to walmart and did our grocery shopping today. We spent $91.69,before tax. Later tonight we thought hey let's go see what these same items cost at kroger. So off we went. Gail predicted that krogers would be about $10 more.
I was not sure I thought kroger would be a little more but $10 hmm. Well after running around checking off our walmart receipt, Gail was adding everything up on the calculator. The final total for Kroger was $101.34. We were having so much fun comparing prices,
that I suggested going to Biggs to compare prices now! Biggs came to
$98.70, Cheaper than Kroger but still not as cheap as walmart!! So it was good to confirm what we had thought all along, and especially since we have been doing the majority of our grocery shopping at wal-mart for close to 3 years. I will say this though kroger and biggs do have better produce than walmart, other than that though walmart compares favorably.
Here is the article the enquirer did sunday, but they only did 10 items we did 41

3 comments:

marshan said...

Hey, what about Meijer???

Lisa said...

We thought about going there but they are more than 5 miles away from us.
They are supposed to open one near us in the near future.
According to this article
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070729/BIZ01/707290388/-1/back01
though they are second to walmart.
They only tested 10 items we tested 41.

Lisa said...

Here is the article