5. Shop at off-peak hours.

When I was in high school, I loved going midnight grocery shopping with my mom because the aisles would be full of box boys busy stacking the shelves. As an adult, I still try to avoid peak hours, but not to gawk at boys. Grocery shopping can feel much easier when it doesn’t feel like the rest of your town is also there grocery shopping with you. Avoid bumper carts by shopping at off-peak times, which are Mondays and Tuesdays (although Wednesdays and Thursdays are not significantly busier. Just try to avoid Friday – Sunday). On weekdays, most shoppers arrive between 4:00 and 5:00pm, compared to weekends when half of all shoppers arrive to start their shopping by 12:30pm.