Joe Nelson, the guy behind FlyerSide.com, took My Nitty Gritty Grocery List and ran with it. Thank goodness! I never had enough time to devote to comparing and updating my list of grocery prices. The idea behind FlyerSide and MNGGL is if you don’t know what a “good” price is for something, you’re more likely to over spend.
Joe launched his site after he and his fiance started comparing grocery prices and get the best deals. “The handwritten list soon became a spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet became a web page,” he emailed me. His friends egged him on and he now posts sales from around the country.
When you visit Flyerside, the first thing to do is enter your zip code. The site will show sale prices for individual items sold at stores near you. The more stars an item has, the better deal it is. Five stars means stock up, 2.5 stars means the price is average, and zero stars means buy later.
The site also tells you how many days are left in the sale, gives a description of the item, and shares its price. One less developed feature of the site is recipes for meals based on what’s on sale.
The goal of FlyerSide is to help you to decide what to buy and where to shop. It’s a handy tool – if sales and prices are posted for your neighborhood – that will save you from doing these comparisons on your own. And that means saving money.
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Welcome to Bargain Babe! I’m Mara, and I’m so glad you’re here. I am an obsessive bargain hunter and penny pincher, and I am determined to live a full life without EVER paying full price.
Hey! I think you left the “m” off .com in your flyerside link. :0)
Ah, it is right on the first link, but not on the second.
This is great! I had been asking my friends if there was a way to compare all the same items in your ‘hood but didn’t think it existed – once again Bargain Babe to the rescue!
This is an awesome concept. I am always going through all the wednesday flyers to see where to buy all my usual stuff for the lowest price. But when I look at “flyerside”, it only lists one store, Albertsons (and only one location). Am I missing something or is this just very new? And how often will it be updated? Thanks!!
This site showed only Albertsons, no matter how many times I changed the zip code. The Albertsons shown is for West Hollywood.
Since I read the store ads weekly, I pretty much know where the best buys are. I find that making a careful list and sticking as closely to it as possible makes for more economical shopping. As an old, veteran shopper in the Van Nuys/Sherman Oaks area, I know which stores regularly have the best prices for stock items that I buy on a regular basis.
Probably a bit soon to start promoting this, Albertsons is the only market listed in 91411.
I contacted them because I also only saw Albertsons. I got a reply from Joe and he told me that he’s working to get Ralphs, Vons, Pavilion and Safeway added back to the site for all CA locations. It was nice to hear from a real person so soon. I’ll be checking back.