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Post by dancinmama on Sept 14, 2011 23:24:28 GMT -5
Hi Miss Suzi Q. We have missed your posts. Glad you had such a wonderful time in Hawaii and San Diego!!
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Post by dancinmama on Sept 14, 2011 23:27:22 GMT -5
I notice the cashiers are much stricter with the coupons lately. They read them with a magnifying glass, LOL. They won't accept them if it is not exact. What I "love" is when the coupon says ANY and the cashier won't accept it because the "any" product that you are buying is not pictured.
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Post by saveinla on Sept 14, 2011 23:44:15 GMT -5
Hi Suzi,
Good to see you post here. We've missed you.
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Post by saveinla on Sept 14, 2011 23:44:51 GMT -5
I notice the cashiers are much stricter with the coupons lately. They read them with a magnifying glass, LOL. They won't accept them if it is not exact. What I "love" is when the coupon says ANY and the cashier won't accept it because the "any" product that you are buying is not pictured. Today I had to explain the difference between a purchase and transaction to a manager at Rite Aid.
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Post by dancinmama on Sept 15, 2011 0:35:40 GMT -5
What I "love" is when the coupon says ANY and the cashier won't accept it because the "any" product that you are buying is not pictured. Today I had to explain the difference between a purchase and transaction to a manager at Rite Aid. saveinla: Ya, that's another good one. Back in the day when I DID have a grocery store that doubled coupons (pre 2003), I NEVER had to explain it. I honestly can't remember anyone ever questioning my usage of multiple coupons. When the 'one per purchase' debate comes up, I explain to the cashier that the REASON they started putting that wording on coupons was so that people could not use (5) coupons to buy ONE item. What a hay day that must have been!! ;D
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Post by kathyattraverse on Sept 15, 2011 7:52:45 GMT -5
A couple weeks ago when Pepsi was $2.50 at Target and I printed four $1 coupons I told the young man register clerk that the coupon said 1 per transaction so he may have to ring them separately. He looked at the coupon and said that they should all go through so he rang up the 4 pepsi and put in the 4 coupons and it was fine. He was very nice but I wanted to point that out to him.
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Post by bluecluessubtlety on Sept 15, 2011 8:11:02 GMT -5
Everything is read more carefully now. My Fry's and CVS always took expired RRs and EBs before. Now even if they scan the cashier will read it and back it out and hand it back. And the reason they expired is bc the deals were so scarce.
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Post by dancinmama on Sept 15, 2011 8:18:05 GMT -5
A couple weeks ago when Pepsi was $2.50 at Target and I printed four $1 coupons I told the young man register clerk that the coupon said 1 per transaction so he may have to ring them separately. He looked at the coupon and said that they should all go through so he rang up the 4 pepsi and put in the 4 coupons and it was fine. He was very nice but I wanted to point that out to him. kathyattraverse: Ya, I don't think there is any kind of flag in the coupon's UPC to stop the computer from taking the coupons. I think the same applies with the P&G coupons. It is up to the cashier to impose the limits.
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Post by dancinmama on Sept 15, 2011 8:34:10 GMT -5
I went into CVS yesterday morning and low and behold they had the Dawn hand renewal on the shelf - funny thing is that the truck hadn't come in yet. Maybe someone found some in the back??? I bought one for me and one for my mom knowing that the bag tag credit makes them a sales tax only purchase - pretty desperate, huh? I also went to check on my GE chicken broth. I noticed on the next end cap over they had beef broth and decided to check out the dates. They have over 20 cans dated 7/something/11!! The tops of the cans were extremely dusty so whoever stocked them was not paying much attention. I really want the chicken broth more so I will stick to my plan and wait and make an offer on the chicken broth in a couple of weeks. I'm afraid that if I show them the cans of beef broth, they'll check the chicken and clearance it now at a higher price. Legally, they probably have to throw the beef broth away so I don't want to risk it. The cans say "use by" the date stamped on them. ETA: I just hope they don't decide to put it on ad before I ready to swoop on in.
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Post by jeep108 on Sept 15, 2011 11:58:00 GMT -5
I have a rain check on eggs from Wags that I got 4 months ago. I plan on using today since there are none on the freap anywhere this week.
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Post by 973beachbum on Sept 15, 2011 14:45:46 GMT -5
FrugalSuz, did you do the Acme gift card cat this week? I was looking at my Acme ad and saw the special for the first time today and it looks like I might want to do it.
My hope is that my Acme will carry WaWa cards. I get almost all my gas from WaWa so that is a no brainer for us. If they don't I would have to get a Visa card and the fee kinda wipes out most of the savings unless I was willing to do a $500 visa gift card in once trans and I am not sure I am that comfortable with it. Let me know what you think. ;D
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Post by dancinmama on Sept 15, 2011 14:51:30 GMT -5
I have a rain check on eggs from Wags that I got 4 months ago. I plan on using today since there are none on the freap anywhere this week. jeep: Good job on playing the rain check game!! ;D Was that the week they were $.99? I wanted to get a rain check at my WAGs, but they never ran out of them.
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Post by jeep108 on Sept 15, 2011 14:54:25 GMT -5
I have a rain check on eggs from Wags that I got 4 months ago. I plan on using today since there are none on the freap anywhere this week. jeep: Good job on playing the rain check game!! ;D Was that the week they were $.99? I wanted to get a rain check at my WAGs, but they never ran out of them. Yes it was.
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Post by frugalsuz on Sept 15, 2011 14:58:52 GMT -5
FrugalSuz, did you do the Acme gift card cat this week? I was looking at my Acme ad and saw the special for the first time today and it looks like I might want to do it. My hope is that my Acme will carry WaWa cards. I get almost all my gas from WaWa so that is a no brainer for us. If they don't I would have to get a Visa card and the fee kinda wipes out most of the savings unless I was willing to do a $500 visa gift card in once trans and I am not sure I am that comfortable with it. Let me know what you think. ;D 973beachbum - I don't shop at Acme much anymore, but that's a great deal! ($10 Acme gift card when you buy any $100 gift cards - in case anyone else wanted to do the deal). The circular just says $10 Acme card when you buy $100+ in gift cards, so would you get back more than one if you spent $500 on Visa gift cards? I try to stay away from the Visa gift cards because of the fees. Are there any other cards you could get instead? JCPenney, gas stations, Amazon, Home Depot, etc?
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Post by murphath on Sept 15, 2011 15:20:54 GMT -5
frugalsuz: I wonder if the Acme chain is part of Kroger/Safeway? They do a deal at SW out here where you can buy $100 gift cards (Kohl's etc) and get $10 q off your next SW purchase. I shop at Kohls for gifts/clothes for the fam all the time so that was a great deal--especially when I combined the gift cards with a 30% card Kohl's sent me, $10 Kohls cash for my birthday, and receiving $10 more Kohl's cash for each $50 purchased. So for spending $100, I received $20 SW free food, $20 Kohls cash. That was fun shopping. All my kids birthdays are in the Fall so in essence my OOP was $60!
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Post by murphath on Sept 15, 2011 15:24:16 GMT -5
Leanna, Thanks for the info re Eggo. We don't eat that much processed food these days--prefer to make pancakes/waffles from scratch. But the SW Seclect ice cream sells for $3.29, it's BOGOF this week, and I can also use the $1 q off Safeway Select items over $3. So, $2.29 for two ice creams. I have to come up with a good scenario to get to $15 so I can also use the $5/$15.
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Post by leanna on Sept 15, 2011 15:58:52 GMT -5
The FF $5 cat printed, even with my using the $5 ff q! Here's what I bought: (6) Eggo waffles ($2 ea) = $12 (1) Open Nature Ice Cream = $4.49 Less: (3) Eggo $1/2 mq's (RP 8/7/11) = -$(3.00) (1) Open Nature Free q (mailed to me from Safeway) = -$(4.49) (1) Sfway Frozen Food q ($5/$15) = -$(5.00) (3) Doublers = -$(1.50) OOP = $2.50 Received $5 CAT! ($2.50 MM - Whoohoo!) Murpath - Sorry - no brilliant ideas on how to get to $15, since your tastes may be different than mine. But I suspect you'll figure something out!
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Post by 973beachbum on Sept 15, 2011 16:23:29 GMT -5
FrugalSuz, did you do the Acme gift card cat this week? I was looking at my Acme ad and saw the special for the first time today and it looks like I might want to do it. My hope is that my Acme will carry WaWa cards. I get almost all my gas from WaWa so that is a no brainer for us. If they don't I would have to get a Visa card and the fee kinda wipes out most of the savings unless I was willing to do a $500 visa gift card in once trans and I am not sure I am that comfortable with it. Let me know what you think. ;D 973beachbum - I don't shop at Acme much anymore, but that's a great deal! ($10 Acme gift card when you buy any $100 gift cards - in case anyone else wanted to do the deal). The circular just says $10 Acme card when you buy $100+ in gift cards, so would you get back more than one if you spent $500 on Visa gift cards? I try to stay away from the Visa gift cards because of the fees. Are there any other cards you could get instead? JCPenney, gas stations, Amazon, Home Depot, etc? FrugalSuz, it says any card except Mastercard, Amex and Acme. So that leaves all gas and store cards open. the fine print on the website says you can do up to $500 in one transaction and get $50 in Acme gift cards. They did have signs up when I went through for the chicken breasts on sale that all Visa cards must be pruchased with cash only. I didn't understand what it was about till I got home and realized they didn't want people buying a $500 Visa getting the cats and then using that Visa to roll it into another Visa and get $50 more. I live at the bottom of the earth. So there are very few stores available to me. The only gas stations just about are WaWa. If I can get WaWa ones I would get $500 of them! If not I may do $100 of others in lesser amounts. Then again I could just do $200 of the Visa and be done with it. This would be the first week in a while that I don't have one of those cat coupons for $8 off of $80 shopping order at Acme.
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Post by leanna on Sept 15, 2011 16:30:29 GMT -5
I'm really cautious about those GC deals at the grocery stores. I always think it through to make sure it's GC's I would use right away. There was a good one at Albertsons' this summer - a $20 cat wyb $100 worth of GC's.
The ones at Safeway currently seem to be a $10 cat or something like that wyb $100. For me, that's not worth it. Because, I can go on Plastic Jungle at any time and save 7% and usually buy when & if I need something. We're going to be getting lots and lots of Home Depot gift cards to renovate our new house.
For those who can get gas cards on these deals and have a nearby gas station, that's a really good deal. For some reason, my stores either don't include the gas cards, or they are for gas stations that are nowhere near me.
Ok, ramble done...
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Post by jeep108 on Sept 15, 2011 16:56:43 GMT -5
City Market/Kroger is having their buy 10 get $5 at the register. Among my deals: $1 Kraft dressing (sale w/ a coupon) $2 GM cereals (coupon) $3.50 DiGiorgno pizza (coup) 99 cent Steamfresh veggies frozen (5 for the stockpile) 95 cent Del Monte fruit (also 5 for the stockpile) 29 cent 2 liter diet 7up (coup) 50 cent Marzetti dressing (coup) 70 cent Mission tortillas (coup) Farmland sausage links are 10/$10 English cucumbers and bell peppers are also on sale for $1.25. I need to go to Frys and do some of these deals this weekend.
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Post by saveinla on Sept 15, 2011 17:42:05 GMT -5
Kroger/Ralphs/Frys shoppers - my store had small bottle of Kikkoman soy sauce for 1.29 - we have higher prices than most of you, so you can get them for free or get overage if you use the SW MDA booklet Q for 1$ off any one Kikkoman product. If you are ok with the contents of the small packets of their mixes (like stir fry mix/pad thai mix) then the Q can be used on those also. HTH Iggy/Jeep, Our prices on the SF veggies are 1.99 before mega and 1.49 after mega. I am envious of all your low prices.
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Post by saveinla on Sept 15, 2011 18:11:41 GMT -5
Thank you, saveinla. I was beating myself up bc I don't have any SF coups. If they are on Mega, I buy them even without a Q- I like their rice/pasta dishes for my teenager before band practice , since its filling and there is no time for anything else. That way I can cook dinner after he leaves instead of hurrying to do everything before 4.
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Post by p8nt on Sept 16, 2011 3:16:55 GMT -5
Hello all, I've been MIA for a while.
I skimmed back a few pages and didn't see anything about this, but wanted to know if others had same experience.
I went to WAGS to do the spend $30, get $10 Proctor & Gamble deal from their ad. Of course, my first transaction was $29.99 and Wags doesn't round up like CVS, so we had to void that transaction. Clerk wanted to ring me up with another $.99 Dawn and then would void the second transaction. Um?? Ok, but now you're charging my debit card twice without giving me a credit yet and I've already given you all my MC's.
Ultimately, we had a transaction for $31.98 and it still didn't spit out the $10 RR. I guess the ad was very misleading and you had to buy EITHER $30 of the health & beauty stuff OR $30 of the cleaning stuff. They ended up forcing the RR - but I was there for at least 25 minutes while they tried to fix everything. I was so upset, but really tried not to let it show.
Then I bought a case of the Scott Papertowels, and used my $10 RR for it. As Murphath mentioned, the manuf. coupons were beeping all over the place. She tried to tell me I had the wrong towels or not the right coupon. Well, YOUR ad is the one that says $1 coupon in this Sunday's paper and THIS IS the $1 coupon from the paper. So, she forced it through.
It's just getting SOOOO frustrating to spend so much time to try to put together a good deal, then you get to the store and have nothing but problems.
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Post by ooty1234 on Sept 16, 2011 5:01:54 GMT -5
Ohhh, noooo... WIR gals, I need your support: Re: the buy 10 get $5 back at the register, I mistakenly picked up a SF (steamfresh) package that was not on the 99 cent special and was charged $3.19! Between that, and a broken egg I could have avoided.... Iggy: I had the same thing happen the first time I did a mega sale with Gorton's fish. I took the offending product (battered fish) that was on the shelf with the participating products (grilled fish) to the service desk and exchanged it for the right fish and got the difference back AND the 5.00 credit I should have gotten. I now know to pay attention to the shelf tags very closely and that end caps of products will get you every time as they are not labeled as well.
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Post by ooty1234 on Sept 16, 2011 5:13:46 GMT -5
So last night, I made a trip to Walmart to test out the price matching....I had just left CVS and forgot to grab milk there at 2.19/gal. I had the CVS ad in my purse and also a Marc's ad. Marc's has the new Knorr's concentrated broths for 2.99 and last week's Q for 2.00, makes for cheap broth! (4 little cups that makes 3.5 Cups of broth each) Walmart's price on milk was 3.29 (?) and the Knorr's was 3.88, I only had a few items plus an All You (10% off coupon) Anywhooooo....I let her ring up everything and held the milk and knorr's till last and asked to to price match them. I told her CVS has milk at 2.19 and she asked me if I had the ad? The lady in line behind me starts yelling at the cashier about the commercials where you don't need the ad! I was mortified! I then showed her the ad for the knorr's and the lady behind me is still just running her mouth! Really? ........The cashier was not at all happy to be doing PM anyway, so I certainly did not need any help from the peanut gallery! I apologized to the cashier for starting that, but thanked her and told her I appreciated it!
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Post by p8nt on Sept 16, 2011 6:16:10 GMT -5
That's awesome Ooty! I think I'll be getting my milk at Walmart with the price match from now on. Much closer to my house than the affordable grocery store.
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Post by constanz22 on Sept 16, 2011 6:40:47 GMT -5
Hi ladies! Just checking in...still doing pretty well, have had some good and not so good days. I HAVE to get out and get a few groceries today, mainly just some fresh stuff. I've REALLY been living off my stockpile these last few weeks! LOL! Not looking forward to having to drive 15 miles to the grocery store, since our one and only store was destroyed in the flood Oh well, it's gotta be done. Is there anything exciting going on at Rite Aid this week? There is a RA where I am going to the grocery store. Thought I could make a quick run if it's worth it. Any ideas? I don't have any Ups, got out of the game before my surgery... Man did it get cold here! It is 41 this morning! I had to drag out the space heater! At least the sun is shining! ETA: If anyone sees any good TP deals, PLEASE let me know. My TP stockpile is getting dangerously low...I have 2 12 packs of the "good stuff" and a couple 4 packs of the crappy stuff and THAT IS IT!
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Post by frugalsuz on Sept 16, 2011 7:18:54 GMT -5
Hello all, I've been MIA for a while. I skimmed back a few pages and didn't see anything about this, but wanted to know if others had same experience. I went to WAGS to do the spend $30, get $10 Proctor & Gamble deal from their ad. Of course, my first transaction was $29.99 and Wags doesn't round up like CVS, so we had to void that transaction. Clerk wanted to ring me up with another $.99 Dawn and then would void the second transaction. Um?? Ok, but now you're charging my debit card twice without giving me a credit yet and I've already given you all my MC's. Ultimately, we had a transaction for $31.98 and it still didn't spit out the $10 RR. I guess the ad was very misleading and you had to buy EITHER $30 of the health & beauty stuff OR $30 of the cleaning stuff. They ended up forcing the RR - but I was there for at least 25 minutes while they tried to fix everything. I was so upset, but really tried not to let it show. Then I bought a case of the Scott Papertowels, and used my $10 RR for it. As Murphath mentioned, the manuf. coupons were beeping all over the place. She tried to tell me I had the wrong towels or not the right coupon. Well, YOUR ad is the one that says $1 coupon in this Sunday's paper and THIS IS the $1 coupon from the paper. So, she forced it through. It's just getting SOOOO frustrating to spend so much time to try to put together a good deal, then you get to the store and have nothing but problems. p8nt - believe me, we've all been there. Some days nothing works the way you want it to. Don't give up though, just keep trucking along getting your great deals. Soon enough you'll have a "slick as snot" day and you'll forget about all the trouble Walgreens gave you. ;D
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Post by frugalsuz on Sept 16, 2011 7:21:16 GMT -5
So as I was driving home yesterday, I couldn't stop thinking about the Acme gift card deal so I went afterall. I bought the gift cards separately b/c I didn't read the fine print that 973beachbum mentioned about being able to buy multiple cards at once. I got two $100 Lowes gift cards and then a $50 bp, a $25 McD's and a $25 Dunkin Donuts. I redeemed the catalinas right away for a $30 Acme gift card. I really love these gift card deals. Why not make $30 in 10 minutes? ;D
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Post by 973beachbum on Sept 16, 2011 10:03:08 GMT -5
So as I was driving home yesterday, I couldn't stop thinking about the Acme gift card deal so I went afterall. I bought the gift cards separately b/c I didn't read the fine print that 973beachbum mentioned about being able to buy multiple cards at once. I got two $100 Lowes gift cards and then a $50 bp, a $25 McD's and a $25 Dunkin Donuts. I redeemed the catalinas right away for a $30 Acme gift card. I really love these gift card deals. Why not make $30 in 10 minutes? ;D I am soooo glad it worked out for you! Ironically when I went to my Acme they only had cards for stores like Nordstroms, Barnes and Noble and Starbucks. Other than 1 starbucks on the other side of the county next to us there isn't even one of any of those stores in a 3 county area. As well as tons of Acme and Master Card and Amex, naturally, which wouldn't work. Not a gas card or WaWa card in the place. So no $10 free Acme gift card for me this week.
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