Totally off topic but .....

{{Potd/2005-10-16 (en)}}Image via Wikipedia...follow this advice and you sure will save some moola!

Its about Supermarkets, there tactics to encourage you to spend. spend, spend and some cute ways to not do that.....[read on]

I suppose one of the most obvious ones we should recognise straight away is why is fresh produce first? Based on what we've been taught about sales / income generation, really we should be suspicious shouldn't we?....[go here]

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