How To Spend To Save

I present below a simple way to save on grocery spending. This is not something new nor anything special. It's just some usual practice undertaken by most retirees and astute housewifes!

1. Prepare your shopping list in advance.
2. Visit shopping mall with presence of both supermarket giants - Coles and Woolworths (see list further below).
3. Have quick tours of these supermarkets in turn, jot down (or memorise if you can) the lower prices between the two for the items you intend to buy.
4. Go to the first supermarket (e.g. Coles), select and buy those items with lower prices. Get the fuel discount voucher for further savings when you make the appropriate amount of purchase.
5. Unload bought items to your car in the car-park.
6. Go to the second supermarket (e.g. Woolworths), select and buy those items with lower prices. Get the fuel discount voucher for further savings when you make the appropriate amount of purchase.
7. Unload bought items to your car in the car-park and go home.

Following are the shopping malls in the Sydney metropolitan area with presence of both Coles and Woolworths. Surprisingly, the supermarkets are usually located fairly close to each other (as shopping malls usually set aside only certain region for groceries). As such, you don't have to spend too much extra of your time to compare prices between the two supermarkets. But the saving could be quite rewarding:

Bauulkham Hill - Stockland
Bondi Junction - Westfield
Brookvale - Warringah Mall
Burwood - Westfield
Campbelltown - Macquarie Square
Carlingford - Carlingford Court
East Garden - Westfield
Hornsby - Westfield
Liverpool - Westfield
Mt. Druitt - Westfield
Parramatta - Westfield
Rouse Hill - Rouse Hill Town Centre
Sylvania - Southgate Shopping Centre
Warriewood - Centro Warriwood

Happy shopping!