Advanced Lists for Specific Stores
This article is the next part in the series on Controlling Cash Flows: Maximizing your Savings when Shopping. In the last article we discussed the overall situation of using advanced lists to compete with major retailers. We now start to get down to business and detail how to achieve this goal.
In our last article we described how simple lists can form a strategy to help you obtain your objective of minimizing your spending while shopping.
Last time we mentioned that modern day stores are setup to optimize their cross promotional opportunities against you the shopper. If they set up a camping aisle, they will include flashlights and a mini battery section. If they sell turkeys, they will sell turkey bags.
Their goal is to provide the things you are looking for and put a host of related items near those things so that you will stop and consider, I needed nails, do I need a new hammer too? How about a plastic Nail Holder Gizmo so that I don’t smash my thumb, now that sounds like a good idea! (While you are there in the store, but when you get home and hit that plastic Nail Holder Gizmo once with the hammer and it smashes to pieces, you are now out $5 and the store has taken money out of your pocket that you never intended to spend!
Retailers have very advanced systems and many very intelligent people working to sell you when you walk into the store, lengthen the amount of time you spend in the store, and get you to keep filling up your basket, and switch to a cart and get a second cart if possible. You can go into the wilderness unprepared or you can make a plan (simple list) and even get some survival gear to prepare yourself (advance list and advanced list tools).
In our next article we will cover the details of preparing an advanced list and soon after that how to use it!
