I like to make a list of what I need to go out for. If it is multiple stores, I write down each store and what is needed there. Once the list(s) are done, I go a step further and decide my route to each store. This saves me gas money as well as time. Time to us is also Energy.
Of course I look at all the ads before I go out to get the best deal. This is mostly to save money rather than time. But if the difference in cost is just a few cents and I don't need anything else at that store, forget it, I will go to the other store and pay the little extra to d not have to stop again. Before GP I would stop for just the one item. But with GP I never seem to have the energy to make it to just the one store.You will all understand my disappointment when I had several items on my list, went to the store and 2 key items were not in stock. This is the trouble with ads. Since this was the last store on my route, I didn't have the luxury of going back to the other store to get what I needed. I was pushing my good GP Day to the limit as it was. So I found something that would get me by until I could make it out again (or send my husband - which I hate to do, as he works very long days).
I did make the best of the time that I had today. Even if I didn't get all that was on my list and had to do a little quick thinking, it turned out okay. Quick thinking isn't so quick anymore. I set the basket I was caring down and just stood in an isle to 'think' of what I wanted to do now that my item wasn't there. I must have been there for a good amount of time as I was asked by a couple workers if I needed help. I wanted to say, 'Yes I do, but you can't help me'. But I didn't. They didn't appear to be on the breaking edge of GP Research!
