In keeping up with my fetish of blogging about my groceries, I went groceries shopping yesterday and was rather alarmed with a relatively large groceries receipt. It was more than twice what I usually spent per week, and the food I bought won’t even last me for a week. Alarmed, I went through my receipt, and found that there had been no errors. Then I started questioning myself, to see if what I know about my average weekly groceries spending were correct. I keep a close tab on my spendings, and so I tabulated them. This is the result (and my line of enquiry):
I know I pay for my groceries using only EFTPOS. I never pay for my groceries with cash. I only shop at Coles and I shop almost every week. These facts has facilitated a lot of conveniences for me (like allowing me to pull very accurate data off the bank’s site). So here’s how my average weekly groceries spendings (for the past 100 times I went to Coles) look like in graphs: Continue reading A New Kind of Random?
