Do you know the supermarket tricks? If you want to save money when shopping in the supermarket, is with our HOWEVER tips best advice.

We expose the most common supermarket tricks and tell you how to easily handle them and save money while shopping, instead of being blinded by false offers or succumbing to impulse purchases. With the following tips, you are well prepared for the next supermarket visit.
 

Never go hungry shopping

The most important rule first: Never go shopping with an empty stomach, because the temptation is that you fill your shopping cart with lots of delicious food, half of which you would like to eat and drink right away. To make matters worse, the bakeries emit pleasant smells in the entrance area of ​​supermarkets, which additionally stimulate our appetite.

Tip: Eat an apple or a casserole before you go shopping.
 

Create a shopping list

If you go to the supermarket without a shopping list, you inevitably run the risk of buying more than you actually need. And the risk is high that you have to go back a second time because at first home noticed that "yes-no butter in the house" is.

Tip: Before purchasing, create a shopping list and process it product by product. If you spontaneously laugh at additional products in the meantime, you add them automatically to the purchases much more thoughtful, as if you're traveling without a list.
 

Visit smaller markets

The paths in the supermarket are unfathomable, or they deliberately lead us past as many shelves and goods as possible. In this way, we get a maximum of the product range to face and are encouraged at every turn to fill our shopping cart with other products.

Tip: Better go to small supermarkets instead of wandering around in oversized markets and giving away valuable time and money. By the way, you also save a lot of time when shopping for two: while one does the fruit shopping, the other already starts at the cheese counter (and is not tempted).
 

Small baskets instead of huge shopping carts

Similar principle, same effect: Not only the supermarkets themselves take ever more gigantic proportions, but also the shopping cart. The discount stores in particular use the effect that results - the bigger the shopping cart, the miserably the yield appears. As a result, when in doubt, we will buy more than we actually need. Coupon sites and promotion lists can save you a huge bucks.

Tip: Better use a hand basket or bring your own empty shopping basket and fill it with targeted products.
 

Fruits and vegetables from the weekly market

In the entrance area of ​​most of the premium supermarkets, there is a section of decoratively decorated fresh fruits and vegetables. Often even with bites cut into bite-sized pieces, which are cumbersome and packed in plastic. This is quite tempting, but extremely environmentally unfriendly and usually much more expensive than unpacked fruits and vegetables. In addition, the long way, which must be covered in the supermarket to the cashier, seduces to further (unnecessary) purchases.

Tip: If you prefer a regional weekly market, go to the greengrocer or health food store of his confidence and buy there regionally and seasonally.
 

Pay attention to the fine print

Just because a pack of biscuits suddenly costs 40 cents less does not mean that it's actually cheaper than a comparable product. A popular trick is that the price is also the number of grams reduced, so less content is offered. Fortunately, consumer protection has enforced years ago that supermarkets on products have to note the basic prices (price per 100 grams, per 100 ml etc.)

Tip: Do not be blinded by colorful hints and supposed bargains, but always pay attention to the fine print and the basic prices.
 

Stoop often

Supermarkets really leave nothing to chance - not without reason they are designed by clever economics psychologists. Part of the current sales strategy is the division into a so-called "bend zones" and "vision zone": In the "vision zone" there are expensive branded goods and products that lead to superfluous impulse purchases, while in the "bend zones" the goods from unknown manufacturers which bring in a comparatively low margin. Especially clever: Sometimes products are also secretly placed in order to make targeted shopping more difficult and to keep an eye on consumer goods that one did not intend to buy, but which one can actually use quite well.

Tip: When shopping basically take a look at the lower shelves, because there are usually the cheapest products.
 

Place blinkers in the cash register area

The largest "danger zone" is located in the immediate vicinity of the cash register area. Candies are placed in the queue at sight, while chewing gum, pastilles, candy bars, batteries and week-longs are meant to banish adult boredom.

Tip: Put on imaginary blinkers - or (exceptionally) look at the phone and read messages. If you go shopping with children, you can get used to packing your favorite food for the next generation while shopping - but only on the premise that there is no quenching in front of the cash register.