How to reduce your “shopping” budget? Advice from Fanny Guinochet.
franceinfo: where do we start Fanny?
Fanny Guinochet: I often tell you about this antenna the first thing is to compare prices. The consumer association “UFC que Choisir” has set up a price comparator, with an interactive map that allows you to compare prices for free in stores near you, on a hundred everyday products.
Prices are updated monthly…
Just to clarify also that equivalent sites exist to compare fuel prices.
And there are also promotions?
Yes, and right now, we’re tracking them. The anti-crise.fr website lists, for example, the promotional catalogs of the main supermarket chains, you can also print discount coupons offered by brands on this site, like on couponnetwork.fr, Ma vieencouleurs.fr .
And that’s good, at the moment, all the hypermarkets are competing with each other, with anti-inflation operations. Leclerc sets up a tariff shield on a hundred products, it compensates for increases via Leclerc tickets. At Lidl, it’s a 5% reduction voucher offered from 50 euros, but it goes through the Lidl application that you must download.
Same at Intermarché, which offers reductions for the most modest, you have to take the Intermarché card and fill out a questionnaire with your family quotient justification; overall, all brands are trying to keep you, and it’s interesting to look at their loyalty program.
And there are also cashback refund systems
Yes, it is developing a lot via applications like Shopmium, Quoty, Igraal Market. You send your receipt in photo or you scan the barcode via an application and you are reimbursed in part of your shopping list directly to your bank account, and to the Paypal account.
Finally, you also have applications on which you offer to test the products and in exchange, they are offered. Carrefour has an application: “My opinion makes it free”, you get the products for free if you give your opinion via a questionnaire.
And then, to finish, there are also anti-waste apps like TooGoodTogo, which offer promotions on products that are approaching their expiry date, in stores there are also more and more often corners, with fruit, fresh products that are about to expire, it can be interesting..