Now that the weekend is over and the trips to the mall are slowing down, the last daunting task many of us are facing is the grocery shopping we need to do for all the parties and family gatherings this Christmas weekend. And it’s going to be a long one as the holiday falls on [...]
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Thanksgiving is only a week away and a lot of us will be heading to the grocery stores this weekend to buy the food items for our big dinner. This season though, brings another great benefit. Many of the holiday grocery items go on sale for fantastic prices. While local prices vary, we [...]
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It’s April Fool’s Day and not only do we need to look over our shoulders to make sure our friends, family and co-workers aren’t pulling a fast one on us, so too do we need to keep an eye out at the grocery stores. With companies looking every which way to save money, we have [...]
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(Shijun Liu is a Product Manager/Advisor for SmartShopIt.com. He is also an Investment Analyst with John W. Parker Investment Management Group. In light of the recently released and very depressing job numbers, we thought it good to provide his unique perspective of the state of the economy and how it relates to smarter shopping. He also discusses our soon [...]
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As we stand in our local megamarts looking at the vast shelves of products it’s easy to forget that much of the world lives in hunger and poverty. The holidays and the recessionary times bring this to our minds more than in times of abundance. Could you eat on $1 a day for one month? [...]
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We generally are an up-beat group of folks here at SmartshopIt so it’s not like us to begin an article by espousing the bad news that comes with the bad news. Yet, one of the unfortunate side effects of bad news is that we get inundated with more news, articles and editorials detailing every little aspect of [...]
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