Supermarket Catalogues

For a while now, I've been doing the very tightwad thing of comparing prices for my groceries. I do this by creating a price book in an excel spreadsheet and recording and comparing apples with apples. This was described in detail in the Tightwad Gazette and is a key strategy to saving money on things you regularly buy - especially the non-perishables. Knowledge is power when you have your own reliable records of supermarket pricing and you can act when a bargain is more than just catalogue hype and is ACTUALLY cheaper than normal, or cheaper than the supermarket down the road.

So, for convenience sake, I am going to post the links here to various supermarkets from my area. It saves me having a house full of junk mail! Instead, I can just check prices online before I do my shopping list.

• Aldi (Specials posted in advance but generally apply from Thursdays)
  
• Big W
  
• Bi-Lo
  
• Coles (Updated Thursdays, Location currently set to Toombul)
• K-Mart
• Mrs Flannerys - Only posts specials for the first Saturday of the Month
  
• Woolworths (Updated Mondays, Location currently set to Nundah)

Here are some general catalogue sites that are pretty useful for comparison shopping. Save yourself some serious leg work before you go shopping.

• Australian Catalogues (Home) - Groceries (Direct link) - This site includes K-Mart, Ikea, Big W, Myer, David Jones, Retravision, Harvey Norman. Handy!
• Lasoo - This site includes some of the above, plus Target, Toys R US, Sams Warehouse.
• Catalogue Central - This site includes Freedom, IGA, Telstra, Teds Camera House and more.
  
• Oz Bargain - This site appears useful, but also appears to require registration. It is more 'user' based than 'store' based, with people posting specials they have come across. Appears to have lots of cheap airfares.