Well, because the brakes in my car worry me I stuck to local grocery shopping this past weekend and I must say I got almost nothing for what I spent. Almost $50 at Ray's for some cheese, celery, carrots, hummus (majorly on sale), apples, gum, and water. I could have bought 4x as much at Aldi's for that price and I have been feeling it! Granted I didn't spend the gas money to go to Topeka but I think it must cost less in the exchange!
That is my contribution of wisdom for this week! Whew!
That's a good observation, although I think using Ray's once in a while (NOT on a regular basis) finds the expense watered out by the usual savings of going most often to Topeka. In shopping local on occasion, you are still supporting the local economy (it's hidden value comes back to you) and saving not only the gas money to Topeka but the one hour round trip! So I think although it's much more expensive, that it's really a good idea every 4-6 weeks, or something like that. Monetarily speaking, costs are definitely cheaper in Topeka, but when you look at it from all angles, I think it's worth shopping locally now and then. I'm glad you did!
ReplyDeleteRay's definitely adds up FAST when you're used to Aldi's! I spent $35 at Ray's the other day and I think it was just a couple of bags of groceries.
ReplyDeleteRay's is really handy when you realize that the strawberries you got last week have gone bad and you've already made the shortcake and whipped the cream. Ask me how I know. ;-) Haha!
But other than running down there for the emergency ingredient, yeah, it's too expensive to do weekly grocery shopping there!!