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Refunding - Learning How To Save Using Refunding and Premium Offers
Learning how to use manufacturer refunds, premium offers and rebates can double and often triple your savings. It's the next step beyond clipping coupons and the payback is well worth the effort.

Do You Really Save With a Grocery Card?
Many grocery stores offer discount cards, also known as loyalty cards, which are supposed to save shoppers money when they use the card. But do grocery cards really save you money, and if they do is it worth the loss of privacy?

Take Your Lunch to Work and Save
One of the best bargains around is to stop spending money at restaurants for lunch and start brown bagging it. It takes a few tools and a little planning but once you get started, it's money in the bank.

Going From Coupon Klutz to Coupon Queen
Do you cut out coupons and never use them? Do you organize your coupons inside a pocket of your handbag? Do you save coupons on your window sill and find them again months after they have expired? If you answer yes to any of these questions, chances are you are a Coupon Klutz. But do not despair. By making a few changes you can be on the road to becoming the next Coupon Queen.

Nation's Packaged Goods Companies Embrace Online Coupons
Print valuable coupons from several of the world's best known consumer brands including General Mills, Novartis, General Electric, SC Johnson and Kimberly-Clark.

The Revamping of Grocery Store Websites
It has taken a long time but it seems that finally grocery store comapnies are seeing the benefits of designing their websites to encourage consumers to keep coming back.

The Future of Internet Grocery Coupons
Coupon fraud has resulted in many grocery stores deciding to discontinue the practice of redeeming Internet coupons, however there may be hope for the future. This article looks at the new attitude toward printable online coupons and why it has become an important venue for food companies to revisit.

The New and Improved Outlet Bread Stores
The cost of bread and bread related products has crept up over the years. This cost can strain the family grocery budget. The good news is that there is a way to cut the cost of paying full grocery store prices. Discount bread stores are beginning to pop up in the same areas where you find top grocery stores and delicatessens and the inventory may surpass expectations.

Distractions Affect Consumer Choice When Sampling Food
This research examines the effect of distractions while sampling a food item on the subsequent choice of that item. Drawing upon research on pain, they present a two-component model, which predicts that distraction may decrease subsequent choices for the sampled item.

Grocery Store Loyalty Card Use is Strong Despite Privacy Concerns
New research from Boston University finds that 86 percent of adults carry a grocery store loyalty card and use it, even though cards give stores the right to track consumer purchases.

The Slow Come Back of Internet Printable Coupons
In 2003 counterfeit coupons cost millions to retailers and the practice of redeeming Internet coupons stopped in its tracks, but things are changing. This article takes a look at what happened then and what is happening now with Internet printable coupons.

Coupon Book Scams
Coupon Certificate Book scams are presented as a legitimate business opportunity and work-at-home moneymaker, but buyers beware.

Answer Page to the Grocery Store Quiz
The answers and explanations to the 10 questions on the Grocery Store Quiz.

2005 Coupon Usage and Trends
Companies are producing more coupons, but consumer response is weakening.

Teachers Lesson Plan - Grocery Store Lists
A list of 10 items for students to buy at the grocery store.

MyPyramid - Steps to a Healthier You
MyPyramid, which replaces the Food Guide Pyramid introduced in 1992, is part of an overall food guidance system that emphasizes the need for a more individualized approach to improving diet and lifestyle.

Kellogg Pioneers Free Health 'Check Up' Program
Kellogg Pioneers Free Health 'Check Up' Program

Kellogg Pioneers Free Health 'Check Up' Program
Kellogg Pioneers Free Health 'Check Up' Program

Mail Order Food Safety
The following food safety tips will help the purchaser and recipient determine if their perishable foods have been handled properly.

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