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Peapod Groceries

May 4th, 2008 at 02:40 pm

I was reading yet another book on personal finances, and one of the chapters was on using Peapod for groceries. We use Stop and Shop as our grocery store to begin with, so that wasn't a change for us. The main idea behind it is that you save money becasue you remove yourself from the temptation of everything in the store.

When we go grocery shopping, we have a list, but we always deviate from it. We aim for $50 in gorceries and we spend $80. But with peapod, you just go online and order what you want.

The delivery fees are $9.95 for an order under $100 and $6.95 for an order over $100. Much better than the $30 or so we spend in extra food we want, bt don't have on our list of need. There is also a small fuel charge, but it is usually less than $1 total (not per mile).

I'm going to keep tabs on our gorcery spendings with Peapod and see if it really does help save us money in the end. It does save on time. Once you put something on your list, you can just go to that next time to select it instead of searching for it all over again. And honestly? We hate grocery shopping more than anything else.

So, today I put in an order. This was my second one. By looking st the sale items and comparing proce and size, I saved about $13. That will help stretch our grocery budget a little further this month.

I also got some special additional svings. After signing up with them on the last order, I got a $5 coupon off our total order for this second order. I also signed up to pay with online checking instead of a credit card (or debutcard) and saved another $5. Plus, I picked a non-rush delivery time (Between 4 and 10 pm monday night) to save $1, and finally, saved another $1 for choosing online checking instead of my debit card to pay for the order. Total saved on these features alone? $12. I am adding that $12 to my $20 challenge. Smile


$20 Old Balance: $744.59
Peapod account savings: $12.00
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$20 New Balance: $756.59

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3 Responses to “Peapod Groceries”

  1. luxlivingfrugalis Says:
    May 4th, 2008 at 03:53 pm 1209916416
    1209916416

    Sounds great. I can't wait till we get delivery groceries to our area. Just call me pea-green!

  2. dmontngrey Says:
    May 4th, 2008 at 06:31 pm 1209925861
    1209925861

    Very interesting! I never though of Peapod as a cost savings, but I guess it certainly depends on how you look at things. Great job finding a way to cut down on temptations and find other savings as well! Smile
    Overall I just haven't been happy with the sales (or lack of) at Stop and Shop lately.

  3. Amber Says:
    May 5th, 2008 at 02:37 am 1209955067
    1209955067

    I'd rather go to the store and look at my items, especially poultry and produce. However, I must agree I am sure I would save a lot more buying what is needed and on my list vs. impulse buying

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