Are Grocery Coupons a Waste of Time?
Well after that last poll asking people about their grocery shopping list habits, I started thinking. What goes hand-in-hand with making a grocery list (well, IMO anyway)? Clipping coupons, of course! So I went back to ask 500 people and I was actually surprised by the results. Of the people that responded, almost 65% of people said that they do NOT use coupons on a regular basis when they grocery shop.
Now, I’ll be the first to admit that these polls are nowhere near scientific and the responses include some countries around the world where coupons are not even available. So I focused on the responses just from the US and the numbers are basically the same. Despite the fact that we’re in the middle of a recession worse than this country has seen in years, people are either unwilling or uneducated about how to save money on their groceries.
I can understand not wanting to sit down with the Sunday paper every week and start scouring the ads and coupon flyers for things that I may or may not want to buy in the near future. I don’t understand how, in a day when a majority of people have at least limited access to the internet, consumers are still not using the vast resources available to them. I did a search on Google for Grocery Coupons and just the first 20 results were all links to tools or programs geared towards helping me find coupons that I will use. I’ll be checking some of these tools out and writing about them here. If you have a favorite way of collecting and using coupons, write a comment about it here.
By the way, here are the results from this poll at ask 500 people (click on show results if it just shows the question):
