Meijer’s six-week run of discounts on more than 1,000 grocery staples, still going through early September, is the kind of deal that keeps a lot of Michigan shoppers loyal. That’s for good reason. However, like all grocery stores, Meijer is out to make a profit. These are the ways Meijer gets you to turn a…
A Winn-Dixie shopper in Gainesville loads her cart with some of this week’s BOGO deals, scans her Rewards card, and walks out certain she saved $20. She didn’t save nearly that much. Some digital coupons she meant to use never applied because she never clipped them in the app. These are some of the Winn-Dixie…
A cart piled two inches above the rim rolls up to a self-checkout kiosk marked “10 items or fewer.” The scanner beeps past item six, then item ten, then keeps right on beeping. Shoppers everywhere have stood behind that exact cart. These are the rude checkout-line habits that make Floridians dread standing behind you. 1….
Market Basket runs three stores in Maine: Biddeford, Westbrook, and Topsham, with a fourth headed for Scarborough. Every one of them runs registers the old-fashioned way, with a person ringing up your groceries and bagging them before the next customer steps up. That alone can trip up new Maine residents who are used to self-checkout….
Giant Eagle shut down Fuelperks+, its old pump-side loyalty program, on January 25, 2024. Its replacement program does more than the old one ever did. But even with that upgrade, some shoppers have bad habits that can cost them money. These are the Giant Eagle mistakes some Ohio shoppers make without realizing it. 1. Skipping…
