Find Cheaper Groceries at Drug Stores
Many Pharmacies Carry Lower Priced Food Items than Supermarkets
Aug 24, 2008
Next time you're at Walgreens, CVS or Rite Aid stock up on groceries as well as pharmaceuticals.
With their coupons and discounts, you can often find better deals.
With grocery prices going up faster than you can say, "what’s for dinner?" you might want to start buying dinner where you normally get your prescriptions filled, the drug store. No, pharmacists aren’t replacing meat cutters. But what is happening, is that drug stores are getting more and more into the grocery business. Sure, you could always buy paper towels or mouth wash at the pharmacy. But now, you can walk out of the store with frozen dinners, ice cream and even canned tuna, salmon and macaroni and cheese. And the deals are often better than at the supermarket. But you need to watch for those coupons.
How to Get the Best Prices on Food at the Drug Store
- Clip coupons from the Sunday paper. You’ll find flyers chock full of two-for-one deals, 50% discounts, and other terrific bargains. If you don’t buy the Sunday newspaper check with your local drug store’s web site. Often the sales and coupons are listed there and ready to print out. Try to combine manufacturer’s coupons with sale items for extra savings. You might even be able to use two coupons for the same item. Check the small print to see if the discounts are valid with other offers.
- Take advantage of price matching. If your local drug store isn’t offering these specials, but one farther away is, bring the drug store coupons into your local supermarket and see if they’ll match the price. Often, grocery stores will try to accommodate you in order to keep your business. If the cashier won’t honor the competition’s discount, talk to a manager. You never know what you can accomplish unless you try.
- Check the prices online before you go shopping. With your drug store coupons and sale prices in hand, go to your supermarket’s web site and pull up their weekly flyer. You should see the entire week’s sales and specials listed on the site…the same information that you’ll find in the flyer located at the front of the store. Then compare prices and see where you’ll get the best deals. You might be surprised to find that your local pharmacy has a better price on gourmet spices than the grocery store. Or that baked beans are on sale for 99 cents at Walgreens, but your closest supermarket offers the same product for twice as much.
Don’t feel like driving to either place? Save gas and do your grocery shopping online!
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