About SmartShopIt
If you want to save money buying groceries — then Smart Shop It!
The studies show that, these days, we are watching more closely how and why we spend our money. Heck, we don’t need the news to tell us that! We are reminded of this every time we start our car’s engine and every time we are standing in line at the check-out counter. We feel it in our wallets, pocketbooks and savings accounts.
So why this blog? We see shopping as more than just prices and products. Shopping is a community activity. A cultural and social activity that is part of who we are as people. No other creature on this planet obtains its daily sustenance like we do. It’s one of the things that makes us unique. For thousands of years, the marketplace has been the focal point for much of people’s lives. But in today’s world, that’s changed. The fast pace, quick shop, mega-mart mentality is taking that away.
We know how great it is when someone shares a great buy with us. We feel special and we feel like we shared in a treasure of a good buy. But today, we miss out on shopping as a communal activity. We don’t see and mingle with our neighbors at the market to talk about the daily events. Okay, maybe once in a while we’ll share shopping tips with our co-workers while around the water cooler or with fellow parents on our kid’s sports team. But those discussions are becoming fewer and far between.
And it’s a shame. Because the people we talk with remember with fondness the times when someone helped them with a great shopping tip. It might have been a relative telling you how to choose and buy the best produce. A friend calling you up to tell you there’s a great price on chicken today at the local store. Or the stranger in the store who saw you buying juice and pointed out a great bargain in the next case over.
We want to bring this atmosphere back with this blog and our sister web site, www.SmartShopIt.com. At SmartShopIt.com you will find a powerful tool to help you and your community save money shopping. It leverages the ability of the Internet to bring people together and in this case, it will help us all reduce our weekly shopping expense. It’s also a tool to link you with the other shoppers in your family or circle of friends (Shopping Circle) to share prices and shopping tips. You will also soon have access to this tool via your mobile web device (cell phone, iPhone, RIM device, etc.) In addition, we will be adding coupons to the site to match up specifically with the products you want to buy.
In addition, we are encouraging your local retailers to participate by inputing their prices, sales and promotions. We also provide a space for them to communicate with you, their loyal customers to tell you about what’s going on in their stores that will make your shopping experience better.
Lastly, this blog will provide information, recipes and shopping tips to make this the most extensive and useful web site in the world, designed to help you save time and money with your shopping. As a community site, we want your input on how to make it better. Please don’t hesitate to leave a comment on this blog or in the forum area on SmartShopIt.com.
With these sites, we hope to bring the community back together to help make shopping easier, less expensive and more fun! Thanks for taking the time to learn more about us.
Happy Shopping!
