How to Save Money

There are a lot of how to save money articles going around these days.  I guess that is what people think about during tougher economic times.  I stumbled across a pretty great one today. SooperCard For those of you not from one of the mountain states, King Soopers is a grocery store.  The chain is owned by Kroger whom you may know better.  Anyway, way back in the day, just like all the other grocery stores, King Soopers started a shopper card program where you got savings by using your card.  The card is called a SooperCard.  Now, like a lot of other people, I gave them fake information when I signed up because I was suspicious and didn’t want them selling my name or tracking how many Pop-Tarts I buy. Several years later, I’m a financial professional and much more astute on how the world of business works, and I now know that at best I was being naive.  After all, the three credit bureaus gladly sell not only your name and address, but your credit score (not the exact score, but you can buy a list of people with over a 700, for example) and how you use …

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