Grocery Shopping

A few tips on how to make grocery shopping easier and cheaper.  BTW I am not affiliated in any way with any of these stores.

I really like Aldi and they are cheaper in many items than the other players BUT they are not special needs friendly.  So I only go there for certain items that I can't get for the same or comparable price elsewhere and when hubby is home.  

If you shop at  Woolies or Coles, most of them have Special Needs trolley's but they store them inside.  My local stores will bring the trolley to the car if you ring the service desk to ask them to.  Take advantage of that. Better still don't go to the store.............Shop Online instead.  Coles and Woolies have both Click and Collect and Home delivery services.  If I do Click and Collect my hubby picks it up on the way home from work.

How to save money on delivery.  Woolies offer a 12 month Delivery Saver offer. Buy the Delivery Saver for  $89.00, then orders over $100.00 are delivered for free (any day).   Coles offer free delivery Wednesdays for orders over $100.00.  Click and Collect are free for both.

You might be thinking but they are so much more expensive than Aldi, so even with free delivery, you will still pay more.   It is not the case for every item as I have found your no name brand milk, butter, flour, sugar etc tends to be the same price at Coles and Woolies as they are at Aldi (or very close to).   Woolies on-line prices are the same on-line as in-store.  For the basics Coles seems to have the same on-line but you'd have to check what you are interested in just to make sure.  Specials  are the same on-line as in-store for both stores, so I always take advantage of half price offers for items I use all the time and for things like laundry detergent I just get whatever is half price at the time.  So if you shop for basics and specials the end on-line shopping bill is comparable to shopping at Aldi or just a little bit more and you haven't had to deal with whatever makes a shopping trip difficult for your family.  

Then if you do what I do and use your  RACQ breakdown membership to by Woolworths Wish Gift cards at a 5% discount, you actually pay $95.00 for $100.00 of groceries (a quick check of RACV and NRMA have confirmed you can use your membership with them to do the same).  Entertainment books have the same Woolworths gift card offer and have discount on Coles gift cards too.

Hope this helps.

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