If You Were Given One Hour To Grab Items For Free At The Supermarket...

I think I'd grab a lot of the fresher food items. Less of the boxed items and more of the stuff that we can throw together a lot of different stuff and make really good meals. I'd probably also stock up on the stuff that we use a lot that tends to add up eventually. I'm not sure what else I'd grab, maybe some cleaning products or something.

As much as I'd be tempted to go for the produce and dairy departments, those items will expire quickly and can't be frozen. Too bad because those are the more expensive items and the things I eat most - eggs, yogurt, fruit. But my family goes through a lot of cereal (not me). I would get cereals, probably laundry and cleaning products, meats of course, and then anything already frozen like pizzas, fruit punches, pre-cooked meals or meats (burgers, meatballs, lasagna), and breads. Unfortunately I don't think I have the space to store all this stuff. I wouldn't think they would give you a whole hour to do this kind of a game show prize... more like ten minutes. If they gave me an hour to dash around the store I would probably need to juggle several shopping carts.

Anything that is on my sight!

i have only one thing in mind and i will grab as many of this as i can...if this would possible i would run to grab sacks of rice... there is a big crisis here right now rice prodution and distribution that really affects the lives of many...so given a chance i will difntly run for rice...nothing else

I've been dreaming about that.Actually i have already lists on my mind.I would start with my kids needs like milk,diapers,etc.Then grab some for our personal care after that the household products.Then i'll go to the food area to get fresh cut or frozen meat and if i still have enough time the toy area.Can you give me links that give prices such as this?lol

3. I'd stock up all the luxury items like 1. Laptop 2. The latest IPHONE 3. Best available perfumes(and the costliest) 4. The latest IPOD And guess what would I do, come out of the store and sell all the items at half price when the contest was over....heeheehee.

Hi peaceful! I would have to bring along someone too if I had that kind of hour in the supermarket. LOL and with the increasing prices of goods today, like what you said, it’ll be a great help to ease the burden in budgeting. ^__~ if I had that kind of hour, I would be getting a lot of food, from fresh meat to vegetables, fruits, and also junk foods and canned goods. LOL aside from food, I’d be getting a lot of personal supplies like soap, shampoo, lotion, deodorants, and stuffs. And then, I’d be getting a lot of colognes! ^__~ I like to have a lot of different colognes. I don’t usually stick to one scent so I buy a lot of colognes.

Alright, I shop mainly at Walmart. Hmm... soo...Given one hour to get items, hmm. this is what I would do. $5000. Oh boy, oh what damage we can do? To make sure I get the maximum out of this sweep. I would have to ask if Sam's Club can be included because you can get good bargains there for what I want to do and if so, then work it out! But at Walmart, this is what I'd do. An Hour can make ya get crazy. I'd ask for my household to get what they need. So in food, I'd work on getting about a couple of hundred dollars worth of meat for my freezer. Enough bread to stock in freezer. 50-100 lbs of sugar, enough kool aid so I don't have to run back to the store any time soon. more than enough favorite items I can work with. Of course, I'm definitely going with a grocery list. I hope to at least get like $500, no more than $1000 in groceries which should last me a while. With that done. I'd buy bras(5-10 each)for each of my daughters and myself. enough panty hose to last me for a while.a couple of jeans that I can get into and wear as well as some clothes. Then I'd hit electronics. get all the dvds I wanted but couldn't. buy a nice hdtv with a dvd attached to it, a portable dvd player,a PSP for my daughter. another computer and a couple of wireless internet routers, ipod touch for me, a couple of Ipods for my daughters. couple of gift certificates for friends and such. I feel the secret on this is HAVE A LIST and work it from there.

i'd head right for the meat and the cat food. anything else can wait.they'd be taking a major loss by the time i got done with the meat department alone LOL

Ooh.. this is a great discussion! I would love to have the opportunity to do this! I would definitely choose to shop Costco, because, well.. they have a lot of everything! LOL Anyway, so I'd start out in the section that has computers, and software and stuff, because that's what I usually saw first when I entered the store. Basically I'd probably stick to a few hardware items, and maybe even grab a dozen i-pods. Then I'd hit office supplies and get pens and paper pads, because I tend to have an obsession with that kind of stuff. I'd run down to get some meat items, pepperoni and bread.. oh, and Costco has GREAT pizzas so I'd get like 10 of those.. Then I'd get a bunch of cases of bottled water and diet coke. Then I'd get practical for a bit and get some cereal and stuff. Then I'd hit up personal care and medicine and get enough OTC's to last until they expire. Then if I still had time, I'd run over to the fancy jewelry area (at least at the one I went to they had that.. LOL) and get me so flashy jewelry. Then run grab some books and dvd's, then last but not least, hit the gum and candy aisle, I guess kinda saving the "worst" for last.. haha but I would try to be good and just get a year's worth of sugar free gum. Ahh.. just typing all that and thinking out the layout wore me out. I know one thing, I wouldn't take my mom on this trip, because she has trouble walking, but I would take my dad because he is in better shape than most people my age! haha So it definitely would be smart to have someone to help, if it was an option, otherwise I would be moving faster than I ever went before! haha.. oh yea.. forgot one section that I'd hit up in there somewhere, the musical instruments, I'd get a drumset, because well, it's the one of the few instruments I don't have, and I saw one at costco before. LOL This is probably the "weirdest" list yet, but keep in mind, I am 25, single with no kids and I live at home, and I think more like a 14 year old than most 14 year olds do these days. haha *phew* this was fun! I wish there were more discussions like this! I love making lists like this! Kinda a shopping fantasy.

wow that'll be like a dream come true. i can never get enough of supermarket shopping. but the prices these days really turn me off. if given a chance, i'll probably make the supermarket regret for the rest of their insolvent time. i'll definitely go for staple items like rice and oil. but i'll also go for items that i don't usually get. things like caviar, smoked salmon and all those fresh seafood that are out of my reach. given an hour, $5,000 worth of products is a not a problem for me. ;p

I would do awesome I think in a supermarket sweep. I love that show I would love to have been a contestant that would have been so cool. I was so much younger the last time I watched that show, I probably would not even been old enough to be a contestant! I remember going for what they thought would be the most expensive food items to fill their carts up with. While meats would be the most expensive option I wouldn't want to win a whole cart full of meat items since I am a vegetarian I wouldn't have much use for those items. I wonder if the winning contestant was really able to have all the groceries thay filled in their carts or if they just got that amount in cash. I always wonder where the shows get the money to give away thousands of dollars worth of stuff like they do. I think its from sponsers but still it just doesnt seem like it would pan out in the end.

I, too, have a natural calculator for groceries; I keep a running estimate and am generally within a few cents of the total (unless someone I'm shopping with drops something in the cart when I'm not looking). I would clear head for the Ben & Jerry's and Amy's products; plus, I'd toss in some Annie's Mac 'n' Cheese, Steaz (sodas) and Inkos (iced tea) for good measure. Oh, and I'd stock up on Tom's of Maine toothpaste and stuff, of course!

Oh my, I'd be in heaven! I'd stock up on non-perishables (boxed items - pasta - canned goods, etc), enough meat to fill my freezer, household supplies and toiletries. But mainly the non-perishables as those would be my best bet since I know I could store them w/o spoiling!

Hey I used to watch a similar show that they ask this contestants to grab as many groceries as they can at a given time. If this happens to me gee whiz I will ran as fast as I can and grab everything I can. I might go where the hotdogs are and the canned goods and milks or chocolates...as long as it's something we can eat or something very useful to us. Then I will share it with my other sibs. It would help us a lot. There was this one time here in our office we have loads of samples from our vendors on stock and they gave it away. They let us go in the sample room and grab as many as we can. At first I didn't know we can get any or more so the next day they did it again I was ready and I grabbed as much as I could.

I use to watch that show and I could do better then alot of them with grabbing stuff. I would grab baby stuff b/c that crap adds up so fast. And meat since that could get expensive.

If I had an hour in a grocery store to shop for free, I would get mostly non-perishable items. My freezer is not very big and it tends to freezer burn stuff after a short amount of time. We travel a lot because of my husband's job so I would need paper items and stuff that would not spoil. I love free though, so I would have a lot of fun shopping!!

I'd probably blow it, I'd get confused and scared and blow it. I would be nervous, I would probably end up with alot of things I don't need, and forget to get things that I do need and use. I wouldn't know where to start. Yeah, with the prices of groceries going up, you'd be surprised at what little you would get actually, if they had a set amount of what you could spend, that is.

I would love to be let loose at Costco and have someone say to me, "you have one hour, take what you want". I would go crazy. I would first start off in the electronics deparptment. You know? Get me some new laptops and tv's anything i could put in my cart (although i might need several). Then id swing over to the clothes deptarptment and get everything in my size and my family's sizes hahahaa. next! i would go over to the food. they have free samples, but why waste time when you could just grab it here and take it home and test it out? Then i would go over randomly to all the aisles and get whatever I think I need or someone I know would like and just go crazy. I would be a very loved person after this show hahahaha!its too good to be true though. But a girl can always dream! :D

I would definetly just start gabbing things... I would start with meats and depending on what kind of store it was, clothes and patio furniture and tvs lol