“Brilliant Idea”: 30 Shopping Hacks That May Transform The Way You Shop

Great idea!

This is actually useful. I wonder why it's so low.

Yes,the co op. It really seems to try.

You can freeze almost anything, including milk and cheese. Cheese can be frozen in it's original packaging and milk can be frozen in plastic bags. Thaw in the fridge overnight.

Yes! Also, submerge green onions in water in a jar and they will continue to sprout.

That’s outrageous

Per unit pricing is mandatory at supermarkets in Australia. So helpful when comparing products.

Great but: 1. Then you can’t fold them up for storage 2. How to find boxes exactly the size of your bag’s bottom.

I'd buy these if it was an option where I shop.

I do this at every grocery store/pet store/retail store/etc., just so I can make the cashiers' lives a little easier - turn the product barcodes towards them or place the items on the belt/counter with the barcodes towards the cashier. That way they can scan them faster and not have to turn every single item looking for the barcode themselves. I've worked retail and sometimes the little things can really help!

Err yeah, or just buy some normal reusable grocery bags like everyone else.

it is watery and just... yuck. we never freezed any dairy on the farm, it it seperates, and cheese goes crumbly and, just no thanks

I once got a standing prime rib roast, 5 pounds, for $24. I had asked the meat counter guy specifically to cut me 5 ribs, so it was fresh packaged and he put it on the scale himself. I didn't look at the price until I put it on the grocery converter belt and I almost screamed! The clerk scanned it, bagged it, and handed it to me. No fuss, no muss. Hey! I paid the full sticker price! I laminated that receipt when I got home!!

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Don't even understand what I'm looking at

I've started doing this with other things like pasta sauces and curry sauces as well! I had to get some larger freezer trays (that hold up to a half-cup each) so there was an initial outlay cost, but it helps a lot in the long run, especially since I'm only cooking for myself!

The restaurant supply stores in my area make you prove that you're in the restaurant industry before you can shop there :(

I like the term 'crunchables' :)

Teach this to the cashiers.

Shelf life on bread doen't matter if you have a freezer.

Every other year or so (honestly don't know how frequently tbh) my parents would buy a cow, or half a cow, from a local "happy" farm have it butchered and then loaded into a massive deep freezer. I don't think they necessarily did it because it cost less (it did) but because they didn't trust store meat? Idk. Hmm.

how do you drive? And why not place them just on the floor?

I do this at Aldi all the time the recycle the box.

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Oakies. As I have lots of time to that

I go to the Asian markets here in the US the spices are cheaper. You might have to reuse a shaker but they are cheaper.

The cart is a waste land of plastic

Bag clips are not pricey. You can get like 30 of them from IKEA for £2. And they're the proper ones that get a good seal and keep things fresh

Yeah, other products, sauces, even one time olives (on offer in Aldi) are often cheaper than buying jam jars, I recall buying about ten jars of the olive, decanting them into tupperwares and using the jars for the Mirabelle, Ginger and Rosemary jam I was making.

These are not a new idea everyone had a string bag for shopping in the 1950s.

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Bell peppers? They look like capsicums to me.

Yea, except where they want you to put it all on the bag area and it yells at you if you don't. I just don't use self checkout because it takes away jobs of cashiers.

Everywhere I shop needs the sticker with its bar code stuck over the original, or sometimes a 50% off sticker that gets applied by the cashier. Leaving it up to them to check the dates and apply reductions accordingly would be ridiculous.

In Austria it doesn’t. But it mostly says two for the price of one and of course you can only take one and still pay the same ;)

It's a shoulder bag, I'm wearing it. Bag to the front if I'm worried

I did this once with bags of high nutrient farm manure for the garden - at a third of the normal price. Almost broke my back & knees, but the garden looks great :D

Seriously? What’s with all the plastic bags? Do people still use these?

It's not really a shopping tip but this post reminded me of it since I use liquid soap from Costco. If you have a high efficiency machine you can use a fraction of soap the instructions say. Especially for lightly soiled stuff. Living by myself it takes me a couple of years or more to go through one container.

Honestly surprised BP didn't censor at least part of "cumin."

I, personally, have to load bags based on weight and not how much I can jam in there. No way I can pick up a tote box full of jars/cans... maybe popcorn though 😀

Just pray that it doesn't get stuck, and that you don't accidentally bump up against it and bend or break it. The lternative is just to go to the checkout and ask them for a token instead.

I was immediately sent into a ponder about the excretory habits of almonds.

Where's that grocery store?

Ha, a reference to "They Live" XD EDIT: sigh. Reference here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDRrf46YqOw

Buy some chain mail gloves for when you clean it.

Oh jfc, Sprouts, lol. I worked there for two and a half years during the pandemic. EVERYTHING is overpriced at Sprouts, unless you find some good produce sales (especially if it's locally-grown produce, that tends to be cheaper.)

I like this idea for a drink, but I can't really imagine touching and eating a hot dog as I'm pushing around a shopping cart and grabbing products that have been touched by dozens of other people XD I'm not even a germaphobe, it just... yeech. XD Drinking a drink while shopping is okay (if the store allows it) and eating Costco samples are fine because you usually don't have to touch them with your fingers to eat them, but holding a hotdog and eating it while shopping? I'll pass XD

But don't they have to weigh bulk stuff for the final price of it and this would make it cost more?

So I have to go to Costco on vacation/holiday? Eh

If the price is reduced within 30 days, go to membership and they will refund the difference. No repurchasing and returning. Sales info should be on your Costco membership ap on your phone.

I never lick my fingers, I always spit on them ever so slightly..

Isn't that the part that keeps water out of the trunk/boot? I hope this doesn't damage the water proofing

I...have never heard of this. And I can't say I'm sorry.

I have a cover on the bed of my truck, and two containers for groceries. They are held to the rear by a rachet cargo bar,

How do you do this? When the checker has an empty cart waiting that they transfer my purchases into. Someone is not getting their quarter back.

'Have your wife'

Nope, not here. No way will they pack for you under any circumstance.

Why?