A personalized Publix birthday cake message caps out at 50 characters. That’s about a dozen words. All too many Floridians make the following mistakes when ordering a Publix birthday cake. Learn these errors now so you’re not among them. 1. Guessing at Your Cake Size Publix’s birthday cakes come in sizes that serve very different…
A Patch reporter once ran the same grocery list through a Shaw’s and a Market Basket on the same day, item by item, then added up both receipts. One store’s total came in lower. They were small numbers on paper, but they add up fast once you shop that way every week. These are the…
New Jersey’s newest Aldi opened in Deptford on December 10, one week after Hackettstown got a store of its own 60 miles north. That’s two more addresses added to a list that already runs past 60. Every one of those stores hides a handful of perks many people never cash in. Here are the Aldi…
Food Lion has kept South Carolina shelves stocked for decades. Its weekly ad saves shoppers money on many trips. But it’s still possible to go wrong and spend more than you intended to. These are the Food Lion habits that cost South Carolinians more than they planned to spend. Note: This is general information, not…
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…
