Feb 25 2009
Labels and Comparisons
Reading labels and comparison shopping in the grocery store and the drug store is very important. One thing I learned about reading labels is to always use the unit price to make an apples-to-apples comparison.
Another sound practice is to look for generic brands for product purchases. You can save lots of money this way, and you will be using an equivalent product with the same active ingredients to solve your nutritional or medicinal need.
Things like aspirin and ibuprofen are often the exact same products that are produced by different companies. One company, the product inventor, had a patent or trade mark on the product for a period of years. This allows the company to recoup their initial investment of research and development costs. The second company to package the product can do it cheaper, since they did not have to pay to invent it. Don’t pay more than you need to for anything you need.
