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Money Saving Mondays: Playing The Grocery Game

POSTED: 11:20 am MDT August 23, 2005
UPDATED: 8:54 pm MDT August 23, 2005

When it comes to saving money at the supermarket, coupons help and so do the weekly specials. But are you stocking up when some things are on sale?

The Grocery Game is a Web site that's little more than a year old. Call 7 for Help's Bill Clarke said he's heard great things so he put it to the test.

To see which supermarkets near you are listed on the site, just enter your zip code. In the metro area, King Soopers, Albertson's and Safeway make what's called "Terri's list."

For each store, the specials are laid out in a shopping list format, with different color codes for free items, those to stock up, and those sale items to buy if you're going to use them now.

On some items, a coupon may drop the price even lower and those items are marked. What makes the Grocery Game's lists work is that they include both advertised and unadvertised specials.

But you'll have to pay to get "Teri's list." You pay $10 for one store's list of specials and $5 for each additional store and you'll be billed every eight weeks.

Grocery Game's Teri Gault claims you can save $452 a month for a family of four. Your savings may be a lot less but this beats going through the Wednesday newspaper ad inserts, Clarke said. And you can get a lot of good tips on supermarket shopping strategies as well as the rules to help you understand grocery-getting strategies.

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