4 Unexpected Benefits of Practicing Grocery Store Loyalty — The Financial Diet

March 15, 2018

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Craving a long-term relationship? Date your local grocery store. They’re a cheaper date than you’d think.

For me, it’s been a couple months of ups and downs with the mecca for 20-somethings that is Trader Joe’s. They had me at feta cream cheese dip, and I’ve never looked back since.

Hopeless romantic jokes aside, by “date” I mean invest time and energy into your weekly grocery trips. Go in with a list, but be ready to change it up. Talk to the person serving wine and cheese samples about more than wine and cheese samples.

For me, I have a standing date with Trader Joe’s on Saturdays after I hit the gym. Feeling fit and probably more fly than I should, I stop in the store and do my weekly roundup of groceries. Maybe it’s the endorphins, but I’ve found these self-love Saturdays have created some great money-saving and health-boosting results.

Not convinced? Here are four reasons why I think you need to get into this relationship.

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