Inflation: the best apps to save on groceries and gas
Ukraine is humanly savagely affected by its aggression by the Russian army which has now lasted for more than two months. Destroyed cities, thousands of dead and an east of the country ravaged and under the domination of Vladimir Putin’s troops. A humanitarian disaster that has consequences on the world economy with historic increases in the price of many raw materials. In France, the conflict caused inflation to explode, which reached 4.8% in April. What question many consumers of the hexagon who are wondering how to save money. Some apps can help you with this.
Who impacts the most?
It is indeed difficult today to go shopping without realizing that the price of products that we used to buy are suddenly increased by several cents, sometimes even a few tens. Now is the time to compare the different brands. In fact, in France we are lucky to have in most towns, even medium-sized ones, a plethora of stores to choose from, some of which are hard discount. Before shopping, you can therefore look at where the products you want to buy are the cheapest.
The first application we offer you is Who is the cheapest. This one is supervised by Leclerc, so it obviously puts the sign forward but it does not however play on the language of wood and the lie. You first choose the store of the brand in which you are going to do your shopping. You then scan the barcode of the product you wish to purchase and the app then tells you what are the prices offered in the latter but also in all the stores in the area. You will then see the price variations. Will it be worth a 5 kilometer detour to save 22 cents on orange juice? Not sure, but you can split your shopping into multiple lists by store.
Price tries to do the same thing independently without being under the control of a brand. It’s all to his credit and the developers made it a collaborative app. It is therefore up to the consumer himself to enter information and prices in real time while shopping. It’s a good idea but, with its few thousand downloads at the time this article is written, it is clear that its functionalities are for the moment quite limited with very few products listed. Let’s see if things will improve in the near future.
It’s a fuel world after all
If the expenses related to the shopping basket are one of the concerns of the French, the same is true for those concerning gasoline gobbled up by their cars and other motorbikes. To find out where the prices are cheapest at the pump, several applications can help you. fuel flash will show you in relation to your position which station you can go to to refuel the most economical. There is also a presentation sheet for each station, including the opening hours, the services offered (tire inflation station, sale of domestic gas, automatic pumps, etc.) and a price evolution curve over the last few weeks. .
1-2-3 Fuel and SLMC the cheapest station offer you the same kind of service and only the interface will make you prefer one to the other. Karbu cheaper gasoline stands out from the rest with a very practical option. The latter makes it possible to plan your trip. You can already see which are the cheapest stations where you can stop to save money.
With inflation likely to get worse in the coming months, these apps can help you – if you haven’t already – to take now good habits to make savings no matter how small.
