I so appreciate when my readers leave questions and comments here at MoneywiseMoms! Often, they lead to posts that can help you learn even more about shopping smart and saving money. Last week, my How to Organize Coupons post prompted this reader question:
How do I find blogs that match the grocery stores near me?
Use a large national directory
Head to The Frugal Map or Money Saving Mom’s Store Deals list, where you’ll be able to sort by state or store name to find blogs that cover the weekly sales and do coupon matchups consistently. If you’re already reading a local blogger, see if she’s linking up to others, as I do with the NoVA Grocery Deals.
Google for information
Use the name of your store and the words “coupon matchups” or “deals.” You may want to add the first date of the sales cycle as well, such as “Safeway deals 6/29″ (as I did in the graphic below). From the results, click around and determine whether a blog is applicable to you. For some stores/chains, it won’t matter that the blogger you’r reading lives a few states away, but in some cases it does. Here at MoneywiseMoms, for example, I cover the Safeway store matchups every Wednesday when the new sales cycle starts. Because I live in the Mid-Atlantic, our ad and prices differ greatly from Safeway in Arizona or Vons in California (Vons is another store in the Safeway chain). While some of the larger, national promos carry though, often the shelf prices differ. Therefore, I recommend that you find a local blogger to follow, when you can.
Once you’ve landed at a few local blogs, you might find the coupon match-ups confusing. Tomorrow, I’ll share how to read the hieroglyphics that you’ll see when you go to some store deal/coupon matchup blog posts.
This post is linked up to Frugal Friday at Life as Mom.
