How To Shop Smart Using Apps

Okay,  these apps are my Weekly Shop Toolkit.

1. Speedway - this is the closest gas station to my house and it just so happens they offer a reward system for buying gas there and purchasing snacks there so I know before I go to complete my shop that I will go for gas if it is needed and probably pick myself up a speedy freeze while I'm there to keep cool.
2. Fifth Third - this is my bank, but if you have another bank it just makes good sense to download the app and make it a part of your561 weekly toolkit to know how much money is in the account and what bills have yet to be paid so you don't overextend yourself.
3. Flip - I like to look through all the local ads first and make a note of anything that I need to have for house replenishment and looking at the sales helps me determine my meal plan for the week. That's right I plan my meals around the deals.
4. Cartwheel - After checking out Flip I'll login in to the Target savers app cartwheel to see if there's a deal on anything I needed or might use as a meal option in Cartwheel. Bonus if it's something I can stack!
5. Snap! - This app is backed by Group on. Essentially if you buy something from the list and take a picture of your receipt you earn money back and when you reach a certain amount you get that money back! Again, use this to determine your shopping list for anything you might need or could use.
6. Checkout 51 - This app functions much like Snap! Upload a receipt to get money back!
7. ibotta - This app lets you earn money back by first taking a poll, learning a video, doing a review, or learning a fact and then if you purchase the item scan in the receipt to get money back!
8. Grocery King - I use the free version since I only use this to keep track of the items I need to buy. It limits the number of loyalty cards you can enter to 2. I haven't tried the pantry function yet to determine how many items you can track in your "pantry" yet but I will update this when I do know.
9. Shopkick - check into store locations and scan items to earn points towards store gift cards!
10. Fooducate - So you're standing in the grocery aisle staring at the section of peanut butter but you're trying to determine which is actually the healthiest, for Fooducate this is no problem. You tell it the things you want to avoid and the things you want and it will "grade" items you scan and let you know via letter grade if it a good choice for you. Heads up, the highest score you can get for a Strawberry fruit spread is a B, lol.
11. RedLaser - Say you happened upon an item that might be a good idea to try but since it wasn't on your shopping list you don't want to splurge more than you have to, this app is great at finding the same item in other locations and tells you which has the lowest price.
12. Calculator - So you can tally the cost of items as you place them in your cart, this will keep you from adding too many "extras" into the cart.
13. BeepnGo - Loyalty card holder, it scans your loyalty cards and lets you know when promotions are happening at your favorite stores. Win!
14. Smoopa - I use this as a piggyback off of ReLaser, if no one currently has the item at a price I am willing to pay you can setup Smoopa to let you know when an items fall to a certain price. Great for not necessary purchases.
15. Wal-mart - If you do end up shopping at Walmart be sure to scan in your reeipt! If there's any major competitor with a lower price they match it and give you the difference to redeem on a digital gift card.