A single candy bar tucked into an otherwise tax-exempt Hy-Vee order can change what Wisconsin taxes on the delivery charge sitting next to it. That’s only one surprise inside Hy-Vee’s Aisles Online checkout. Wisconsin shoppers who order through the app run into a handful more, many of them easy to miss until their total lands….
A Meijer credit card in a shopper’s wallet earns points at a gas station across town, nowhere near a Meijer aisle. Same account, a completely different store. Few shoppers expect that same card to earn anything once they’ve left a Meijer register. These are the Meijer perks Michigan shoppers never think to use. 1. Shop…
More than a third of U.S. drivers say they’ve ended up in a full-blown argument over a parking spot. It rarely takes much to set one off. More than 70 Publix stores share parking lots across South Carolina, and a handful of driver habits repeat at nearly all of them. These are the Publix parking…
Fuelperks+ has been dead since Jan. 25, 2024. Giant Eagle folded it into myPerks that day, and the savings behind every gas discount changed with it. myPerks still ranks among the more generous free loyalty programs at an Ohio grocery store. But no rewards program gets everything right. These are the myPerks mistakes we think…
Costco charges Arizona members $65 a year just to walk through the door. Sam’s Club charges $60. Many Arizona shoppers assume any store selling groceries at warehouse-club prices must charge something similar just to shop there. Several things about shopping at WinCo say otherwise. These are the WinCo savings Arizonans over 60 miss. 1. No…
Walmart is midway through its biggest store overhaul in years. Its Supercenter on Clearbrook Village Lane in Roanoke is about to grow by roughly 7,000 square feet, with a new exterior color scheme Roanoke County supervisors approved this year over some neighbors’ objections. That’s not all. Shoppers everywhere around Virginia are noticing changes at their…
Aldi’s prices run 30 to 40% below the average grocery store, according to a national pricing study that shopped seven U.S. metro areas. Certain bad habits, though, can hand a slice of that discount right back to the store. These are the Aldi habits that can end up costing Ohioans more than they save. 1….
A Trader Joe’s shopping cart holds about half the groceries as a standard supermarket cart. Only Dollar Tree’s carts are smaller. Even so, wedging a cart down a Trader Joe’s aisle at rush hour causes tempers to fray fast. These are the Trader Joe’s habits that annoy other California shoppers. 1. Parking Carts Across the…
If you always accept the total on Wegmans’ checkout screen at face value, you may be leaving money behind. Wegmans has fixes for pricing errors, missed discounts, sold-out specials, and even lost receipts. The catch is that you usually have to speak up so that Wegmans can make things right. Here’s what you need to…
More than 35,000 Americans weighed in on which grocery store they trust most for 2026. One retailer walked away with more trust awards than any other grocery chain in the country. To the surprise of many Floridians, it wasn’t Publix again. Here’s who won America’s most trusted grocery store title in 2026, and how Publix…
