MAKING SAVING EASIER - SALEWHALE

Making Saving Easier

I've discovered a really neat site that I want to share as it makes buying on sale and comparison shopping super easy. The site is called salewhale.ca and it really does live up to its logo of "making saving easier".

The information is taken from the local flyers, based on the postal code and put into an easy to use format. On the first page of the site they have four areas listed. I think the best way to describe how each of these work will be easier and more accurate if I just quote directly from the information provided by the site.

1.    Browse Flyers: "Easily browse through your favourite flyers and use our filters to narrow down your categories of interest."

The categories for groceries are broken down as follows: Baby, Beauty, Food, Health & Pharmacy, Home, Personal Care, Pets.

Instead of checking through pages of stuff you don’t want or need, these categories make searching only for what you want much quicker.

2.    Find a Product: “Find a product on sale. Just type in the name, brand or keyword of a product and we’ll tell you where and if its on sale.”

3.    Create Alerts: “Create alerts of items and let us tell you when they are on sale.”

Right now I have 39 alerts on everything from bathroom tissue to chocolate chips. On Fridays I receive an email as follows: “This week’s savings on the products you love.” If any of the items I have listed with them are on sale, they will show up in the email. Then all I have to do is add them to the Save Sales (4).

4.    Save Sales: “Save a list of all the sales you are interested in before you head to the store.”

This is a neat feature as it breaks the sales down by store. For this post I added ten sales to be saved and then printed them off as follows:

Cauliflower $1.99 at Food Basics

Maxwell House Ground Coffee $6.99 at Foodland

Romaine Hearts $1.47 at NoFrills

5 items at Shoppers

2 items at Walmart.

Walmart and Shoppers are both closest to me and right across from each other. I know I can AdMatch the cauliflower, coffee and romaine at Walmart, which means I only need to go there and to Shoppers to get everything I need at sale prices. Saves money on products and gas plus saves time – I’d say win, win.

The other thing I like about salewhale is that they show the sale products and the stores they're listed at on the same page, making it super easy to compare prices. The following items were on sale the first week of February.

Maxwell House Coffee 925g                  $6.99 Shoppers	Maxwell  House Coffee 925g                      $6.99 Food Basics	Folgers Coffee 642-920g              $7.99 Independent
Romaine Leaf Lettuce                         3/$5.00 Independent	Romaine Hearts 3 pack                2/$6.00 Zehrs	Romaine Hearts 3 pack                2/$5.00 Food Basics
Royale Bathroom Tissue 12=24 single       $3.99 Shoppers	Royale Bathroom Tissue 32=64 single     $10.74 Walmart	Selection Bathroom Tissue 12=24                    $3.99 Food Basics

Working with the bathroom tissue, its easy to calculate the per price roll - $0.33 per double roll at Shoppers and Independent and $0.34 at Walmart. On this occasion, Shoppers has an even bigger edge as the sales were offered during one of their 20x points events, so customers with an Optimum Card, meeting the minimum $50.00 requirement, would receive additional savings in point value of 800 points worth $1.00. Isn't this easy?

Check it out yourself - You've got nothing to lose, just time and money to save. Click on the link Salewhale.

I am not affiliated with salewhale in any way nor am I paid to promote them. The only purpose of this post is to provide my readers with information that I believe will benefit them.

Talk to you again next week,

Lenie