Lisa Williams has never liked sorting through coupons, and she no longer has to at Kroger Co. grocery stores.
Every few weeks, coupons arrive in Williams’ Elizabethtown, Ky., mailbox for items she usually loads into her cart. While Kroger is building loyalty – with 95 percent of a recent mailing tailored to specific households – Williams is saving money without searching through dozens of pages of coupons.
“I’m not that big a coupon-clipper,” she said. “It seems like a lot of coupons you see are (for) things that you never use.”

When times are tough, super-markets know vigilant shoppers notice even tiny changes in the price of foods like milk, cereal, bread and cheese. In fact, there are about 500 such products, and stores raise prices on these staples at their own peril.
So how do markets deal with rising food costs? They tinker with the price of the roughly 45,000 items people don’t buy regularly enough to have a fixed idea of their cost—tacking on 3 to 4 percent to specialty products like, say, gourmet pasta sauce or fresh-squeezed juices, without …

NEW YORK, Jan 07, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The authors of the runaway bestsellers Eat This, Not That! and Eat This, Not That! For Kids! are back with an essential guidebook for navigating the American supermarket–EAT THIS, NOT THAT! SUPERMARKET SURVIVAL GUIDE, by David Zinczenko, with Matt Goulding (paperback, $19.95).
With obesity rates soaring, food costs climbing, and family food budgets shrinking, this easy-to-use guide is hitting stores just in time to put shoppers back in control of their health, their wallets, and their waistlines. Available nationwide in stores …

(NAPSI)-Here’s food for thought: A recent survey revealed more Americans snack at 3 p.m. than any other time in the afternoon.
Because many snack choices are not necessary and can lead to consumption of unwanted calories, NBC’s “Biggest Loser” trainer Bob Harper offers smart snacking solutions. “My clients tell me the afternoon is their toughest time of day when it comes to snack cravings, and they typically reach for snacks even if they aren’t hungry,” said Harper. “To get through those tough times, I suggest chewing a stick of long-lasting Extra® …

We start 2009 licking our collective wounds, and it has little to do with New Year’s celebrations or the Detroit Lions.
Michigan is an economic basket case, with nearly 1 in 10 residents out of work. While it is too soon to talk about Armageddon, once-comfortable suburbanites are starting to feel the pinch and making changes that for legions of Depression-era families was second nature.
They are growing their own food.
A typical family of four growing all its vegetables and using canned and frozen vegetables from the garden can save hundreds of …