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How to Create Your Own Grocery Price Book

February 9, 2014 by jlpenner 14 Comments

How to Create Your Own Grocery Price Book

How to Create Your Own Grocery Price BookIf you’re looking for a way to keep up with sales, pricing and rotation at stores there is an easy way to do all of that… a grocery price book!

What is a price book?

It’s simple. It’s a book you keep with sales,discounts,etc. for different products at different stores. So when you see a sale for let’s say… BBQ Sauce you can check your price book to see if that sale price is actually a good stock up price by comparing it to past sales. And you can also see after about a year when BBQ Sauce tends to go on sale during the year so you know when to stock up!

This is an awesome way to help keep your own shopping in check and even be able to compare pricing between different stores for regular priced items to see who really is the discount store.

Also See: How To Organize A Coupon Binder

How do you manage a price book?

Managing a price book is actually a lot easier than you may think! No, you do not have to go through every aisle of every store you shop at and write down every single price. That would take forever, trust me, i’ve done it.

The best way to keep up with a price book is going off your receipts and store ads. Every week you can write down the sale prices you see in the Ads for certain products that you regularly buy or products you would consider buying if the price is right. You can also write down the pricing off your receipts when you get home from shopping.

Now you will not have to do this forever, in fact within’ a couple of months you should have a decent price list going and you won’t have to write down so much! All you may have to do is write down the sale price for that week next to the item.

And make sure to snag a local newspaper (or a few copies) for all the coupons to match up with sales!


How do you create a price book?

When I was looking to start one for myself a few months back I searched and searched for something showing me the best way to do one and I was surprised that I couldn’t find anything that actually showed you physically how to do it. So I have been testing different methods myself and since I like to be organized and I am very anal about how organized I am, I came up with a great method to get one going.

First off you will need the template for your price book. I have created a price book template for you to download and print to add to your book. Everything is laid out for you all you have to do is print! Easy right?

Now that you have your template you need to figure out the best way to organize your products. And I found an awesome shopping list that has everything laid out for you, you can print The Ultimate Grocery List to find every category and item you may need for your book.

So where do you go from here? You have the template (you will need more than one, I suggest one page per product type) and you have the product list… now what?

You can either use a 3 ring binder or something else to hold all these papers in, how you organize these is up to you. I would suggest a binder with dividers for each section on the grocery list.

Here’s an image of one of mine :

For example…

Separate a section for Condiments/Sauces in your binder. in that section you will place a template for BBQ Sauce, one for Gravy, one for Hot Sauce, one for Jam/Jelly, etc etc etc.

After a short time you will have a complete book full of prices at all the stores you shop at so you can easily reference and see if a sale is really a good sale or if it will rotate every so many months so you know how much to stock up on!

Download the price book template

Download The Ultimate Grocery List

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Comments

  1. Dawn says

    September 13, 2011 at 1:16 pm

    Awesome! I love this, thanks! =)
    Reply
  2. Kristine says

    September 15, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    great idea! Thanks!
    Reply
  3. Kymberleigh Chavez says

    September 28, 2011 at 9:34 am

    Thank you so much. This is very helpful information for a beginning couponer like me!
    Reply
  4. Krista says

    October 6, 2011 at 9:45 am

    Thank you for sharing these! I'm going to use them.
    Reply
  5. Kerri says

    October 14, 2011 at 11:00 am

    Just printed mine....thanks so much!
    Reply
  6. Lyndsay says

    October 26, 2011 at 1:52 pm

    I wasn't able to download them. :(
    Reply
  7. Diania says

    December 20, 2011 at 2:03 pm

    I was able to download the price book but unable to get the ultimate grocery list.
    Reply
    • Laura says

      December 20, 2011 at 2:04 pm

      The issue with the link for the grocery list has been fixed, so try again :)
      Reply
  8. Trish says

    December 20, 2011 at 2:16 pm

    I was unable to find the Ultimate grocery list this is what the link said WTF? Sorry, we couldn’t find what you were looking for… The content you’ve requested can’t be found. You can try searching the site:
    Reply
    • Laura says

      December 20, 2011 at 2:24 pm

      The issue with the link for the grocery list has been fixed, so try again. It should now direct you here http://www.grocerylists.org/ultimatest/
      Reply
  9. Charlotte B says

    December 20, 2011 at 3:31 pm

    You don't know how long I have been looking for this very thing..Thanks so much for sharing!
    Reply
  10. Lynne says

    January 31, 2016 at 3:30 pm

    Thanks for providing the templates. Years ago I tried to set up a price book, but was quickly unnerved when two store employees began following me. I was writing down the prices of everything I ordinarily purchased instead of going by my receipts each week. I thought it would be quicker. Apparently the employees thought I was a spy from a rival store. They didn't confront me but I left because I was afraid they'd call security. Maybe I'll try it again but this time from my receipts
    Reply
    • jlpenner says

      February 2, 2016 at 6:19 am

      no problem
      Reply

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