Yes, South Carolina has a property tax break for seniors, and the biggest is the Homestead Exemption. Once you turn 65, it wipes out the property tax on the first $50,000 of your home’s fair market value. It stacks. Owner-occupied homes in the Palmetto State already get a lower assessment rate and a school-tax break…
Does Publix have a rewards program? Sort of. Publix has never run a points-or-punch-card system, and it doesn’t plan to start. What it runs instead is Club Publix, a free membership. Give your phone number at the register, and you unlock personalized coupons and deals. For Florida shoppers, that free sign-up is where the biggest…
When comparing Aldi and Walmart in Florida, Aldi is usually the cheaper of the two. But the gap is thinner than the ads make it sound. Fill one cart at both stores, and Aldi’s total tends to come in a few dollars under Walmart’s. That’s not a landslide. Walmart wins some of that back on…
Think a full parking lot means your grocery store is safe? Not this summer. Stores that anchored their shopping centers for years are taping up closing signs across Ohio. These are the store closings hitting Ohioans hard this summer. 1. Heinen’s Downtown Cleveland Heinen’s turned the old Cleveland Trust rotunda on East 9th Street into…
Aldi runs on rules that the Giant and Weis you grew up with never bothered to teach you. Break one, and you either walk out poorer or leave the best stuff sitting on the shelf. These are the Aldi mistakes Pennsylvania shoppers over 60 keep making. Coming Without a Quarter The carts at Aldi chain…
Two Publix stores in Florida can sit forty miles apart and feel nothing alike on a Saturday. One store has rolling carts in the parking lot and drivers circling for a space a block from the beach. The other has open aisles and a parking spot by the front door. These are the Florida Publix…
Yes, restaurant senior discounts in Georgia are rea. But the honest answer is that most of them ride on which location you walk into and who owns it. A few sit-down chains run actual senior menus, with smaller plates and lower prices. The drive-thru deals are softer, and you often have to ask before anyone…
Does Walmart price match? Not a competitor’s flyer, and not the way it did a decade ago. The chain walked away from broad price matching, so the old trick of waving a rival’s ad at the register no longer works. One narrow exception survives. A Walmart store will still match the price of the exact…
A Texas retiree signs the closing papers on a paid-off house and figures the hard part is over. It isn’t. Skipping income tax shifts the cost onto the county tax office and the electric meter, and a first-year retiree pays for the surprise. These are the money mistakes Texas retirees make in their first year….
Loyalty doesn’t save you money at Publix. Knowing the rules does. These are the Publix deals Tennessee shoppers wish they’d grabbed sooner once they learn how they really work. 1. BOGO, Buy Just One Publix runs buy-one-get-one deals all over the store, and in Tennessee you can buy just one item. You read that correctly….
