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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm realizing I know a few people who shop too much for groceries go to many different stores to shop to "get out of the house" as ones person tells me. Then they can't eat all the said food and it goes to waste. I don't know how much money they're wasting but all of them are on a fixed budget and shouldn't be wasting it on food they can't eat. Do you know anyone like this or are you like this?[/quote]

I've shopped with my SIL a few times. Exhausting. Her hobby has always been deals. When inlaws were alive every family gathering would include her and my MIL sharing coupons. Minimum 3 grocery stores. We spent a half hour in a customer service line because she contested the price she was charged for a box of brownie mix the week before when there was a sale on several versions of the particular brand of brownie mix. She's not obnoxious, she's always polite and pleasant but absolutely persistent. I was uncomfortable because of the number of people behind us, but she got the refund she wanted. But she will always have a different list for each store based on which has the brands she wants at the lowest price. She added Trader Joes to her store circuit a few years ago because she fell in love with cookie butter. She also does famer's markets and joined a CSA one year. She buys a lot of food, it seems like, and she and her husband never had kids, but I've never noticed anything being wasted and I would doubt that happens.

But she's not doing it for entertainment, she just gets pleasure out of doing it this way. [/quote]

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