Stretch Your Money

One message in the media over the past months has been how to stretch your dollar. Instead of buying partially prepared food, they buy more raw material and prepare the food from scratch. A good example is the prepared salad. They would just by a head of lettuce and a bunch of onions, and a bunch of radishes; and then prepare their own salad. The people involved in that process making prepared salads would be out of work. That same process would repeat itself in many other food products. Some have shown how you can save 30, 40, percent buying a number of different items. It doesn't seem to matter whether it is food, furniture, hobbies, or whatever. The vendors on the other hand want customers to spend their money on their products. So the dilemma is if the consumer changes their shopping behavior and looks for more ways to get more product for their money; the producer cannot provide the traditional product and either lays off employees or goes out of business.