Grocery Price Book Printable | Shopping Log, Unit Price Comparison (9 Pages)

The sign said half price, and it was still dearer than the shop you went to last Tuesday. Nobody can hold three hundred prices in their head, which is precisely what a shelf-edge discount relies on. The only defence anybody has ever found is a written record of what the same thing costs in the places you actually go — in the same unit, in your own handwriting, with the date on it. PRICED is 9 pages of plain, ruled paper for exactly that. What things actually cost, where, and on what day — the item, the size, the shop, the price you paid and the price per unit you worked out yourself, so you can tell a real sale from a sticker. THE FOUR PAGES THAT PAY FOR IT Item, size, shop, price. One line, written where you can see the shelf. The size is the column people leave out, and without it the price means nothing. Price per unit, as you worked it out. Per hundred grams, per litre, per sheet — whatever makes the comparison honest. Your figure, in your own units, in your own hand. Whether it was on offer. And what the price was when it was not. A sale you can check against your own book is a sale you can actually judge. No prices printed anywhere. A price printed in a book bought last year is a wrong price. Every figure in here is one you saw with your own eyes, on a day you wrote down. WHAT IS INSIDE One — How you keep it Your units, and your own method Two — The price book Two sheets, written in the aisle Three — Offers Checked against your own ordinary prices Four — The shops What each one is actually good for WHY IT IS A BOOK AND NOT A SPREADSHEET Because it is used standing in an aisle with a basket on one arm. A small book opens at the right page in a second and needs no signal, no battery and no free hand for scrolling. A price recorded in the shop is a real price; one typed up at home from a receipt has already lost the size, the shelf and the offer. WHAT YOU GET Four PDFs, one for each print size: US Letter (8.5 x 11 in) A4 Half-Letter (5.5 x 8.5 in) A5 9 pages each. Print at home or at a print shop, as many times as you like, for as long as you like. Plain paper and a ring binder is the whole kit. Instant download, in your Etsy Purchases the moment payment clears. THE SMALL PRINT Digital download. No physical item is shipped. Colours vary between screens and printers. For personal use. Please do not resell or redistribute the files. A NOTE ON WHAT THIS IS The shortest page in the book, and worth reading first. This is ruled paper for prices you saw yourself. It prints no price and no budget of its own. What this is. Ruled paper for writing down what happened, when it happened and what it came to — with a date beside it. Nothing in it is computed and nothing in it is advice What this is not. Not a price list, not a budget and not a shopping plan. It contains no price, no average, no target spend and no recommendation about what to buy or where to buy it, and it works nothing out for you Why it refuses. Because prices differ by shop, by town and by country, they change week to week, and a figure printed in a book bought a year ago would be wrong everywhere by the time anybody read it. The only price worth having is the one you saw yourself, in a shop you can name, on a date you wrote down. That is the whole design: the book supplies the columns and the discipline, and you supply every number in it