Spend less on groceries every week and waste nothing, with a ready-made list for one person at the Canadian stores you already shop: No Frills, the Superstore, Food Basics, FreshCo, Sobeys, Metro, Walmart, Costco, Giant Tiger, Dollarama and Shoppers.
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Nothing comes in the mail, and there is no account to make.
My name is Donna Fraser. I'm about sixty-eight, I'm retired, I live on my own, and I shop for one person on CPP and OAS. I don't have a store job behind me and I'm not affiliated with any store, chain, brand or bank. When I say something is cheaper at one place than another, it's because I stood in the aisle with my reading glasses on and checked the shelf tag, the flyer and the fine print myself.
Buy the big pack. Stock up. Cook on Sunday for the week. Join the club. That all works when there are four mouths at the table. When there's one, half of it ends up in the green bin.
So I wrote down the list I wish someone had handed me: what goes in my cart every week, what stays on the shelf, which store is cheapest for what, and how I stretch a fixed cheque through a Canadian winter.
Where the money leaks out when you shop for one:
None of it is a character flaw. Stores are built to work on us that way. The book shows you how I work back.
A week of groceries for one, the way most of us shop, set against the way the book shows you.
Skip two top-up trips and the book has paid for itself.
Big type, short lines and a checklist at the end of every chapter. Tap a page to read it.
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Most big retailers in Canada, the major grocery chains among them, have signed the Scanner Price Accuracy Code. The stores that follow it put up a sign near the door or the checkout.
If an item scans for more than the shelf tag or the store's own flyer, and you point it out: when the correct price is $10 or less, you get the item free. When it's more than $10, you get $10 off. In Quebec the province has its own rule, and it's more generous: $15.
I write the shelf price beside each sale item on my list, and I check the receipt before I leave. Then I go to the desk, calm and plain: "This rang up higher than the shelf price. Under the Scanner Price Accuracy Code, I believe it should be free."
That is one page. The book has 179, in large print, with three printables.
Canadian stores, Canadian sizes, Canadian programs. Every chapter ends with a short checklist you can copy onto a card.
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Donna Fraser · 179-page book in large print · instant download · reads on any phone, tablet or computer
I'm Donna Fraser. I'm retired, I live alone, and I shop for one on CPP and OAS, the same as a great many of us. I do one main shop a week, with the flyer read the night before and the list written at the kitchen table.
Nobody pays me to say a word about any store. Prices change by the week and by province, so I never tell you what something costs today. I tell you the habits that keep working, and where your own store's rules differ, I say so.
This book is my list, written down for everyone else who shops for one.
So have I. Most of those years I was shopping for a household. This book is about shopping for one on a fixed cheque, at the Canadian stores we have now, with their points programs, member prices and shrinking packages.
Then chapter 6 has a page for your store: what it is cheapest for, its store brand by name, its points program, the policies that help seniors and what to walk past. The rest of the book works in any store.
The book names the Quebec stores (Maxi, Super C, IGA) and gives the Quebec rules where they differ, like the province's own price accuracy policy.
The book doesn't give today's prices, because they change every week. It gives typical ranges, labelled as such, and the habits that save money whatever the flyer says.
Yes. The whole book is set in large print. On a phone or tablet you can make the words bigger still with two fingers.
The checkout runs in US dollars. Your card converts it at the day's rate, the same as any online purchase from outside Canada.
Yes. Print the weekly list, the unit-price card and the seniors'-day calendar, or the whole book.
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Write it at home. Read the tag. Load the offers. Walk past the traps. Freeze what you won't eat this week.
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