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I thought I found a great deal on recordable DVDs: 100-packs for $10 at Office Depot.

Too good to be true? Yep. The first sign something was amiss was the photo depicting the sale didn't match what was being sold (50-packs are shown in the ad). It was a typo - ad should have said 50, not 100, according to the Office Depot worker I spoke to at a Greensboro store yesterday. So it's 50 for $10.

Oh well. Still a good deal though. Deal ends today.

Bring five Lowes Food brand cans of food to the Dixie Classic Fair today and admission is free.

Donated food will benefit the Crisis Control Ministry, which helps families and people get back on their feet.

Pizza and Bud Light and ice cream and ribeyes,
Crinkle cut french fries and Granny Smith apples,
Tender asparagus great for home meals,
These are a few of my favorite deals.

And they're all on sale this week at Triad area grocery stores:

A few highlights:

Freschetta frozen pizza is $4 (regular $6.30) at Harris Teeter.

Cases of Bud Light and Budweiser are $14.50 at Kmart Super Center.

Boneless ribeye steaks are $7 a pound at Lowes Foods (regular $11 a pound).

Also at Lowes, buy 1, get 1 free on Nathan's fries (jumbo crinkle cut or onion rings). Save $2.95.

Granny Smith apples are $1.80 a pound at Harris Teeter (save about 20 cents a pound).

Asparagus is $3 a pound at Food Lion (regular $4 a pound).

As noted by Dealnews, Amazon.com is discounting more than 100 toys and games by up to 75 percent.

Exchanging movies, books, clothes and CDs versus buying them new can save you a good chunk of change.

MarketWatch's Marshall Loeb suggests checking out these Web sites:

Paperbackswap.com. Any book you choose will be shipped to you free of charge, although you're responsible for paying to ship your books.

Haggling works in more ways than you think.

A new Consumer Reports survey revealed up to two-thirds of consumers had success negotiating prices on products.

Black Friday ads are appearing online sooner than before. Sue Stock at the News & Observer's shopping blog Taking Stock notes the site blackfriday.info already has Ace Hardware's ad posted.

All kinds of good stuff on sale this week.

Highlights:

Two-for-one deals at Harris Teeter on food including boneless chicken breast, London broil and whole pork tenderloin.

Lowes Foods has the same deal on Edy's ice cream, cantaloupes, Alaskan salmon burgers and Breyers yogurt.

Food Lion's 2-for-1 deals include seedless red grapes, chicken breasts (frozen), Pepperidge Farm cakes.

Kmart Super Center has a buy 6 for $10 deal on Post cereal.

Buy today's News & Record for 50 cents and make a $4.50 profit.

That's because there's a $5 off coupon on A5 toward purchases at a new grocery store in Greensboro called Aldi ($30 minimum purchase).

Coupon expires Oct. 20.

As noted by Dealspl.us, buy one of Arby's new toasted subs sandwiches and get medium fries and a medium drink for 17 cents using this online coupon.

Expires Nov. 2.

Shopping might never be as fulfilling - spiritually or bargain-wise or both - as a silent auction and hot dog supper for charity at Community in Christ Presbyterian Church on Friday, News & Record religion reporter Nancy McLaughlin writes.

Tap into your inner treasure hunting child this weekend in what is being billed as the Triad's biggest yard sale.

It's happening Saturday from 6 to 6 at the Piedmont Triad Farmers Market off Interstate 40 on Sandy Ridge Road.

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Happy bargain hunting.

Feed your need to help the needy.

Through Oct. 31, area Waffle House locations are giving a free waffle breakfast to anyone who donates two canned food items for Second Harvest Food Bank, Carl Wilson writes in today's Short Orders column.

Mike Fuchs (left), Katie Reetz and Louis Bekoe

It's the best bargain on video games I have ever seen. Called the Orange Box, it features Portal, and Team Fortress 2 and three games from the critically acclaimed first-person shooter Half-Life series.

I've played Half-Life 2 and I loved it. The game's gravity gun, which lets you pick up objects and hurl them, is one of the best video game weapons ever made. And what's not to love about a spinning saw you fling at the bad dudes? It's a slice of heaven.

We talk about it in this week's GameBuzz show.

A 2 gigabyte video MP3 player made by a company called SPI is advertised at JC Penney for $68 (regular $120).

Holds up to 500 songs or 8 hours of video and includes a 1-1/2-inch color screen. Also includes a photo viewer, voice recorder and 50 free downloads from eMusic.

A sampling of deals on groceries that expire Tuesday:

Lowes Foods has buy one, get one free deals on naval oranges and Green Giant frozen veggies.

Food Lion has 10 for $10 deals on Pringles potato chips, Michelina's frozen dinners, Chef Boyardee pasta and microwave bowls.

Harris Teeter has buy one, get one free deals on boneless center cut pork roast, 3-pound bags of select apples.

Kmart Super Center has buy one, get one free deals on Post cereal, Red Baron frozen pizza and Hamburger Helper microwave singles.

98.7 Simon is selling lunch for 98 cents Wednesday at the governmental plaza in downtown Greensboro.

All proceeds to benefit the Make A Wish Foundation.

The menu: Hotdog or hamburger, chips, fruit and drink.

Hours: 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

A sampling of deals at Triad area grocery stores this week:

Buy one, get one free deals:

* Food Lion: Cantaloupes, Smithfield center cut ham slices, Tombstone frozen pizza, Breyers ice cream, Doritos.

* Harris Teeter: Pork baby back ribs, Rancher beef ground chuck, Pepsi 12-packs, Alpo dog food, Kellog's raising bran crunch.

Golden Corral is once again serving a free meal for those who served our country.

As noted on the Take Stock blog, the Raleigh-based national restaurant chain is honoring soldiers with a free dinner and beverage at any of its restaurants including those in the Triad on Nov. 12 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Seems like only yesterday when I paid $100 for my iPod Shuffle, which included a then hearty 512 MB of storage space.

Now you can get a player with four times that amount of space for half that cost, not to mention additional perks such as watching video, recording audio, listening to the radio and viewing photos.

Case in point: Sears has a 2 GB digital media player for $50 (regular $70). Deal ends Saturday.

As noted at Bargainjack.com, Circuit City has a Toshiba HD DVD player on sale for $198 (regular $299).

The list of Black Friday ads posted online continues to grow as the big day gets closer.

Ads you can see include those from Sears, Toys "R" Us, Macy's and Tommy Hilfiger.

Food Lion has two-for-one deals on items including: A pound of Deli Virginia or honey ham, Lay's chips, Ball Park meat franks, Food Lion split chicken breasts or chicken tenders (2.5-3 pound frozen bags).

Kmart Super Center has 10 for 10 deals on items including: Chef Boyardee canned foods, Bumble Bee solid white albacore, Lipton rice and pasta sides, Banquet breakfasts.

Grab lunch today in downtown Greensboro for a buck.

It's 98.7 Simon's "Picnic in the Plaza," which was rescheduled from last week due to the rain.

It will be held at the governmental plaza from 11:30 to 1:30.

Proceeds to benefit the Make A Wish Foundation.

The menu: Hotdog or hamburger, chips, fruit and drink.