Author: Christy Bieber
Date: Febuary 16, 2023
Groceries can be an expensive purchase these days, as food prices have gone up due to inflation. If you’re tired of giving your credit cards a workout at the grocery store, there are ways to reduce what you’re spending on food.
In fact, finance guru Dave Ramsey has a simple, straightforward suggestion for reducing grocery costs that just about everyone should follow to keep more money in their checking accounts. He advises using curbside pickup for food purchases instead of actually going into the store — and he’s absolutely right.
Ramsey suggests curbside pickup as a method of reducing grocery spending for a few key reasons.
First and foremost, if you pick up your groceries instead of going into the store, Ramsey points out that you’ll be much less likely to pick up items that aren’t specifically on your list.
Ramsey also pointed out some other benefits of picking up groceries instead of going into the store to buy them, including the ease of comparison shopping, making sure you aren’t spending more on groceries than you budgeted for, and being able to check in real-time whether you’re actually out of an item and need to buy it or not.
Analysis:
I think this is an interesting perspective on curbside. I have often heard people say they don’t want to use curbside due to the fact that there is a fee to do so. Still, if you are saving money by not buying extra things you don’t need and comparing prices to other stores, curbside might be less expensive than doing your own grocery shopping. I’m curious to see how this could be leveraged more to encourage more people to use curbside pickup.
