Saving Money in Shopping

There are several steps that my family takes to cut costs for supplies for the home.
We buy primary supplies from wide variety of places.
Cheap is good, but quality for food is more important.  I'd rather eat meat from a better supplier than from the most factory treated cattle.

Taking this into consideration, below is where shopping is done.
I may post a page on each store on what is primary purchase to find lowest price.
After all, a 10% (or more savings) is huge compared to interest you will get on savings (often 1%)

I'll update with links on good deals at each by enabling links. (Amazon only currently)

Barths Market- In my home town, highest quality meats, combined with AMEX blue card, 6% cash back
Shoprite   - Primary food, combined with AMEX blue card, 6% cash back
Target      - House supplies, combined with Target 5% cashback Credit Card.
BJ's          - Bulk supplies, combined with AMEX Fidelity card, 2% cash back
Amazon    - Subscribe & Save, combined with AMEX Fidelity card, 2% cash back

Also, look for good deals and make occasional purchases that take precedence.
Look for deals at Woot.com, Dealnews.com. Coupons at Dealcoupon and Wow-Coupons.

Amazon Shopping

This post is part of Saving Money in Shopping Series.
I am continually looking to increase my purchases from Amazon.com.  Amazon has many items at rock bottom prices that beat or at least match lowest prices available.

To maximize savings, we buy items under the subscribe and save program.
Any item bought on subscribe and save automatically gives a 5% discount AND automatically free shipping.
As of February 2013, if you ship 5 or more items under subscribe and save for a given month, you get 15% discount on all items. (some items excluded).  For additional savings, use Fidelity Amex card and get 2% cash back!

I have a list of many of the items that we purchase from Amazon under this program.  The prices listed ASSUME the 15% discount applied.   Feel free to post in the comments of this post to call out cheaper alternatives.  However, some of the items are more costly due to higher quality.  For example, instead of imitation vanilla extract, we want real vanilla.

I'll try to update this post periodically.  Subscribe and Save isn't as easy as I'd like, prices and product aspects can change, so you must keep on top of your shopping list. Some below I may be grandfathered into an offering that isn't available today.

Shopping, Getting the Best Price Possible

If your looking for deals, I always recommend checking out Dealnews.com (click).  Its a news feed of best deals on the net.
The site also lists all black friday deals.  However, many of these deals are impossible to get.  I sometimes try for online sites, since there are no lines, just good timing.

Amazon has Lightning deals, the good stuff usually sells out in 60 seconds, so you have to be at your PC when it goes on sale. Good news is they tell you what goes on sale when, just not how much ahead if time.

For electronics, I alway check out Newegg.com, be sure to always look at reviews of the product before purchase.

If you go shopping, be sure to check out Wow-Coupons, and PRINT your coupon before you shop. Save!
For online coupons (Codes), I  use DealNews Coupons.

Even with all the tricks above to save, use a credit card with cash back, and save even more.
Well thats it, happy hunting for the best deals for stuff you need!  Save more by not buying it ;)