I am a worrier. I worry about unnecessary things all the time. I think it stemmed from having a manipulative psycho for a mother growing up who twisted and worsted my emotions so much that I spent my childhood in emotional and psychological fear.
One of things she drummed into me was that I was a self-centred, inconsiderate user. Which made me into a fearful person disinclined to ask for help and when I do, I feel apologetic, guilty and ashamed all the time.
Still , manners were also drummed into me so using words like "please" and "thank you" are more than just words association. Of course, growing up, I realised that not everyone shares that adherence. Just go to any grocery stores and you will see what I mean. Pushing, shoving without a word of apology. My grandmother's favourite phrase was "pigs in trough" and I never quite knew what she meant (since I am a city girl) till I went to the supermarkets and sales here.
Anyway, due to my limited mobility and resources, grocery shopping is an ordeal that has to be planned out and executed with military ruthlessness.
One of my resources is to trawl the Internet for the week's supermarket promotions. Shop cheap and smart is my motto. Get confused is my lot. Indispensable to my plan are the supermarket websites. However, not all of them are as timely with their updates and some of them do not even have relevant websites! Thus, I resort to another blogger's website as she seems to clip out all the newspaper ads (I do not have that kind of resources or energy myself so I am grateful to her) but she tends to update only on Saturdays and sometimes even Sundays when the 3-days specials are over!
You see, I refuse to go grocery shopping on weekends. I am afraid of the crowds. Firstly, I cannot walk or stand that long and with the crowds, I get pushed and hit enough times when I have actually fallen and been unable to get up on my own steam. Worse still, nowadays no one helps you (in fact, some click their tongues in annoyance) when you collapse on the ground.
Then I cannot get a taxi home and I cannot manage to carry the load of groceries and stand for a long time without the aforementioned collapse ensues.
So, how it works is that on Thursdays, the supermarkets lay out their weekly & weekend specials.
NTUC Fairprice updates their site on Thursday afternoons but they do not update their 3-day specials till Friday (sometimes morning, sometimes afternoon) so I'm kinda screwed unless I have energy and time on Friday afternoons to catch their promotions.
http://www.whatsupatfairprice.com.sg/index.aspx
Cold Storage is erratic and updates their site (sometimes half-way which is kinda hilarious) on Thursdays night or Fridays. They also tend to update their weekend specials on Saturdays so I usually end up missing their promotions.
https://www.coldstorage.com.sg/onlineshopping/Default.aspx
Carrefour is the least inspiring as they do not seem to have a schedule and update as and when the marketing department remembers. They are also the least organised as they had an expired press ad on their website for months.
http://www.carrefour.com.sg/eflyers/
Sheng Shiong seems to only have monthly promotions. I do not shop there as much as they are too far from home and they never seem to have anything I really need. However, they seem fairly organised in their updates so good for them.
http://www.shengsiong.com.sg/pages/Promotions.html
Those are all the supermarkets I monitor. Giant and Shop N Save do not seem to have websites that tell you anything except who owns them but the blogger I refer to lists them. Unfortunately, she has ignored my polite requests to see if I can list her site for easy reference so I will refrain from mentioning her again. I do not want to be rude or to be accused of plagarising or something.
Anyway, I thought it might be useful to list down my resources. Maybe I will start a weekly update on what I think are good deals. Well, let's just see how my energy level holds up ...
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