Thursday 24 April 2008

Family food shop up 15%, that's £780 a year

I know! I was watching the ITV news last night with an open mouth as well!

Figures based on an average weekly spend of £100.00.

£780 (a rise 15%) a year is going to make a significant difference to a lot of family finances and monthly food budgets. Being pregnant or if you already have a young family, I am sure you probably worry about how on earth you are going to put the same food on the table without overspending to the best part of an extra £15 pounds a week?.

BaBeeCard could help you slash that bill to quite a large extent, if you use our discounted supermarket vouchers then you could see the annual increase of £780 drop to either 10% or even 7%. It may not sound a huge amount but it could save you either £260 or £418.50 a year, drastically reducing the figure down from £780 to either £520 if you shop for groceries at ASDA or Sainsbury's or even better £361.40 if you shop at Waitrose.

Use that saving wisely and you could re-invest it into a child trust fund account or even take the heat off Christmas.

With BaBeeCard you get access to our online discount and voucher scheme, buy the shopping vouchers at a discounted price and use them to pay for your weekly shop. The vouchers take between 3-4 days to arrive once ordered online or via the telephone, yes, it does take some planning but if you are serious about saving it's only one extra step and could make a huge difference to your family finances.

As an adult we can adapt our tastes, cut back and reason. The option of changing your child less because the cost of nappies has risen, feeding him/her less because of food costs rising doesn't bear thinking about.

Ok so the BaBeeCard costs £14.95 a year but you will still save a minimum of 16 times that amount on your groceries alone.

BaBeeCard offers a 5% saving at ASDA & Sainsbury's
BaBeeCard offers an 8% saving at Waitrose

With the hike in petrol prices you can look to save even more! (The ASDA & Sainsbury's vouchers can be used at the petrol stations as payment also)

2 comments:

Unknown said...

liking this concept. is it not possible to put all the benefits in a big list on the home page? took a while to figure out what discount was on food etc, until spotted your blog.
signing up now!!

Gemma Johnson said...

Hi Alan,

Our hands are a little tied when displaying the entire discount list for public view as the major departments stores and supermarkets apparently don't like it broadcast too much, must be a "don't want the world and their wife storming the stores with discount vouchers in hand" - I quite like that idea though!! :-)

You can email me at gemma.johnson@paybyblueberry.com and i'll send you some info over.

Thanks for stopping by.