Smart Shoppers Save Money at Grocery Outlet

I live on a very tight budget so I am always looking for a way to stretch my dollars just a bit more. I have found that if I shop at Grocery Outlet (my family calls this store "canned foods" so if i slip, I apologize) I have more money to spend on groceries. But that isn't the best of it, I have found bargains on non-food items at Grocery Outlet that are amazing. This year my mom's yard has multiple peach trees because of the sale they had on fruit trees ($12.79 each). A couple years back my mom found a cherry tree there and it is the tallest, most gorgeous tree in her yard now.

I believe I was once told the goods in this store are often from damaged pallets or from semi truck wrecks. I don't know if this is true but I do know that often they have the best bargains in town. Many people think because of the type of store Grocery Outlet is, the products are of lower quality. They are wrong. If you do get something of low quality you are welcome to return it to the store for a full refund. This isn't a store selling trash that nobody else could sell. This is a store full of bargains.

The inventory isn't always consistant. I have a habit of buying something to see if I really like it only to return a couple weeks later (or even days sometimes) to find they are sold out of the item. This might be something they carry again soon or I may have just missed out. If I think something might be a bargain I try to buy one and take it home and try it immediately to see if I want to purchase more before it is too late.

Quality products are sold at discount prices. I can purchase Libby's canned mandarine orange slices or I can purchase a brand I have never heard of for $0.12 a can less. The prices for both are much better than I could get at any other grocery store so I decided to try both. The name brand was wonderful. The brand nobody had ever heard of before wasn't bad but it include a few seeds and even a bit of the white material between the segments that is sorta icky. I liked the flavor of both so since they were for myself I bought some of the off name brand but if I was serving them to guests or young children I would spend the 12 cents.