Changes in Advertising to Kids Make it Easier to Shop for Healthy Foods

We've known for some time that children's TV shows advertise foods with sky-high sugar and fat contents. Supermarkets don't make it any easier, placing cereals with the lowest nutrition content within easy reach of short arms. Such marketing devices make it difficult for parents to shop for children along healthy guidelines.

Top 10 Grocery-Shopping Resolutions for 2010

It's a brand new year, which means brand new Christmas bills are dropping into mail slots across America. Every year we vow to economize and every year those good intentions seem to rapidly slip away. But this year it's different. This year it's trendy to economize. Keeping up with the Jones's doesn't mean buying the flashiest car. It means putting out the least weekly trash on your block or getting the most out of your kitchen garden.

6 Money-Saving Resolutions for Shopaholics

New Year's resolutions aren't all about depriving ourselves of something we love. They also can be about hope: Hope we can live a better life. Research has shown we get a powerful boost in mood by simply making a New Year's resolution.

7 Spring/Summer 2010 Fashion Trends to Look for on Sale Racks

Post-Christmas holiday racks and make-up counters are filled with what merchants consider to be last-year's style trends and colors for women. Fortunately, these racks often include spring and summer items from the previous years, as women's clothing stores make room for next year's fashions.

7 Tips to Shopping Post-Christmas Sales

Merchants are mobbed between Christmas and New Years by shoppers looking for post-holiday sales. Racks claiming 30 to 50 percent off fill stores as retailers try to off-load overstock items and clear out shelf space for spring merchandise. Clearance prices and special coupons can make purchases very tempting, but what should you buy at this time. Coupon Sherpa offers seven tips to making the most out of these post-holiday sales.

That's a Wrap! 9 Creative Ways to Dress Your Gifts

You've braved the crowds at Megamart and find yourself fourteen shoppers deep in the checkout line. A quick survey of your cart reveals you've forgotten an essential element to Christmas shopping. The obligatory wrapping paper.  Groan.

9 Ways to Identify Fraudulent Coupons

Coupon use is on the rise and so is coupon fraud. From 1986 to 2001, the non-profit Coupon Information Corp. (CIC) reported only two cases of investigated or prosecuted coupon fraud. That figure rose to just nine in 2007. From 2008 to the middle of 2009, 93 such cases were reported and the numbers are expected to rise as the recession drags on.

30 Top Online-Shopping Trends

As access to the Internet grows, so grows online shopping. Despite the recession, the e-commerce market is enjoying double-digit growth, fueled even further by holiday shopping. In anticipation of this growth, online merchants launched marketing programs earlier than ever this year, with a strong emphasis on price discounts and free shipping.

7 Top Coupon Myths Debunked

Coupon myths are widespread and often inaccurate, yet they continue to make the rounds and scare off people who could use the savings coupons offer. I used to believe many of these myths, until I began taking a closer look at how much I could save on groceries each week. Now I merrily clip and download while saving cash.

6 Ways to Turn Rain Checks into a Windfall

Rain checks needn't always mean gloomy weather. Coupon Sherpa knows how you can turn these little slips of paper into sunny days for your pocketbook. A rain check is a ticket, coupon or the like, entitling a customer to purchase an out-of-stock item at a later date at the sale price. In essence a rain check is a paper "I.O.U." guaranteeing the same sale price at a later date of the customer's choosing.