So I’m a comparison shopper as you can probably imagine. I regularly go to 3 or 4 stores during the week. Since all of our grocery stores are within a mile or so, the dollars you can save by shopping at the places with the lowest prices on the various stuff are more than worth the pennies it takes in gas.
I usually take a kid or 4, and we make it an adventure. Plus, this gives us plenty of places to look for coins 🙂
So while I was out today I noticed some weirdness in the prices of milk. While I was out at Walmart earlier in the week, I noticed that milk was $2.48 a gallon, so I put that on the list to buy there. But when I went to buy it today, I saw that only Vitamin D and 2% were $2.48. 1% was like $2.69 and skim was $3.00! So that’s weird but not unheard of. But then a bit later when I was at Sam’s club, I noticed that skim was $2.62, with 1%, 2% and Vitamin D all progressively more.
In other words – the complete opposite? That made no sense. I could believe it if you explained it to me that the extra fat in the 2% and Vitamin D made it more expensive. And I suppose I’d consider believing if you explained it to me that the extra fat came naturally and it cost more to take it out for the skim or 1%. BUT I’M CERTAINLY NOT GOING TO BELIEVE BOTH OF THOSE!!!!!!!
In non-related news, while I was at Meijer, someone had left a $5 bill in the cash return of the self-scan machine. I waited for someone to come back and claim it but nobody did, so since there was nobody really to return it to, I kept it. Too bad that doesn’t count for the change race!