Learn about Sales Cycles

[Melissa]

Begin to get familiar and realize store sales run on cycles so not everything is on sale every week BUT instead everything is going to come on sale in about 6 weeks weeks approx. You will want to watch the sales cycles and get what is needed inside that 6 week period of time.

I want to follow products and I want to buy them when their their best price. So how do I know when something is its best price? Well you can ask seasoned couponers what their rock-bottom prices are and start there. You can develop your own buy price list or a price book. This is really you just writing down what the price is that you are wiling to pay for particular items and this amount may even decrease as you start to stockpile.

Historically, store products have followed a general cycle.

A Sales Cycle is simply a prediction of certain items being on sale or at rock bottom prices at specific times of the year.

If you follow the cycle and stock up (I never buy mustard in the winter), then you can get where you have enough on hand and only need to refill when the items are in season. The result is that you spend less and less with each successful cycle