Welcome to The Shopping Wizard Shopping Made Easy! Featuring America's Best Grocery Prices

Getting Started - Step by Step Introduction By Gene Parrish       Store Policies   Store Policies Step One How to Set up Your Account with Ads & Bargains Step Two The Ads & Bargains Binder - The Key to Staying Organized and Saving Time Step Three Subscribe to at least TWO subscriptions to your Sunday Paper Step Four Indexing Your Coupons - Never Clip a Coupon Before Its Time Step Five Preparing Your Shopping List Step Six Printing Your Price Matching Labels Step Seven Clipping Coupons - Now's the Time Step Eight Shop - Tips and Helps to Make Shopping Easier Step Nine Price Matching Price Matching Policies and Courtesies Several stores "Price Match" which is a great way for teh store to match competitor's prices and for you to save a lot of money! Many stores, such as Harmon's, mark the prices on the shelves to match the competitor's prices. Other stores, such as WalMart, leave it up to the shopper to do the price matching. This is the motivation behind the Price Matching Labels. WalMart does not match % off, 2 for 1, or B1G1F promotions. Converting Prices from "Each" to "Pound" You may find an item on sale at one store for $0.49 lb and the same item on sale for $0.33 each. To save time at the checkout you will want to calculate the price to match the method being used by the store you are in. So let's say oranges are on sale for 33 cents each at WalMart. At Albertsons they are on sale for 49 cents per pound. You will want to weigh the oranges, calculate the total price for the oranges and then divide the total by the number of oranges. 8 oranges weigh 4 lbs 4 lb X 49 cents = $1.96 $1.96 / 8 oranges = $0.245 each (pay $0.25 ea) You will now want to write $0.25 ea on the Price Matching Label. As you shop at WalMart you will want to put the Price Matching Label on the item at the time you place it in the cart. When you get ready to check out it is very helpful to place like items together as you place them on the belt. This will assist the checker in adjusting prices and keeping things moving.

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