Smart Shopping Wins Discounts Across Families
Vera Howell and Sherry Holbrook share money saving tips amid rising prices. Howell buys gifts early in January and watches March and August sales to maximize discounts while using coupons and going out of business sales. Holbrook cuts costs by buying refurbished games, shopping resale stores, clipping coupons, and planning meals, now paying cash for a spring Disney World trip.
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Vera Howell
Howell
Detroit
Sherry Holbrook
Holbrook
Disney World
Bargain tips from BargainShopperMom founder Melissa Buckles
Melissa Buckles of Troy Michigan runs BargainShopperMom com to help families cut costs. She advises checking weekly store sales and coupons, planning meals around sale items, stocking up, comparing unit prices, waiting for discounts on favorite sites, signing email alerts, buying off season, and using coupon codes and online coupon databases.
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Melissa Buckles
Troy, Mich
BargainShopperMom.com
Buckles
BargainShopperMom. Com
Price matching saves shoppers across stores and online
The piece profiles how consumers use price matching at retailers like Target, Walmart, Best Buy and Toys R Us to combine items from multiple fliers. It details coupon use, meal planning, and a family of four cutting weekly grocery spending to about 75 dollars while a blogger monetizes via ads and coupon prints.
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Meijer
Toys R Us
Target
Walmart
Best Buy
ConsumerWorld.org
Coogan's closes on First Avenue. Drake's moves to APAC
A Cedar Rapids timeline notes Coogan's at 4545 First Ave SE sold to Lone Star on Jan 1. Drake's Salad Bar, once at 219 Second St SE, relocates to APAC building after 22 years of local popularity. The piece also covers historic deeds, a trumpeter swan sighting, and the 96-year life of Cedar Rapids pioneer Robert Ellis along with 1962 area retail and New Year festivities.
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Second St. SE
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Westdale Mall
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Bill Schaab
Drake’s
Coogan’s
First Ave
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Lone Star
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Jimmy’s American Café
Green Pepper Pizza
King’s Food
Marshall Field and Co
Chicago
Cedar Rapids
Armstrong’s Department Store
Chamber of Commerce
Iowa
Missouri
Wisconsin
Town and Country
Lindale Mall
Paramount
Danceland Ballroom
Third Street
Carl Nebbe
Butterfly Tea Room
Third Avenue
St. Wenceslaus
Fifth St
Europe
Stephen
Robert Ellis
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin Territory
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