THE MARCH 2011 GROCERY CHALLENGE THREAD

[saveinla]

Deal Alert - SW has the CPK singles on sale for 2.50 and is printing a 1.25 CAT for each one. Combined with the 5$/15 Frozen food promo and the 1$ off 2/20 RP MQ or the FB q, this is a great deal.
Details on the centsable shoppin. HTH

[herekittykitty]

Mar 2, 2011 20:18:25 GMT -5 mizbear said:

After watching Extreme Couponing, my family became afraid of my couponing for awhile- they were afraid I would be headed from Extreme Couponing to Hoarding: Buried Alive. They did not portray people in a good light at all.
If I need any reality show to come see me- it's What Not to Wear!

Hahaha! That's a good one...me too! I love Clinton and Stacy! "Shut Up!"

[leanna]

Mar 2, 2011 22:43:01 GMT -5 shelly527in said:

Mar 2, 2011 16:29:28 GMT -5 herekittykitty said:

I still have a hard time passing up a "great" deal, even when it is going to cost me something OOP or if I don't really "need" it right now. I do a lot of donating, so if doesn't cost much OOP, I will get it and add it to the donate stash if I think it is something the shelter can really use. I am trying to do better and really think about my OOP cost before I do the deal, but it almost killed me to let some BOGO q's expire a few weeks ago! I was holding out for a BOGO sale to pair them with, but never got one, so I left the q's for someone else to use. Does anyone else suffer such grief when a great coupon can't be used?

YES! I was so sad that I could only get 2 Dove deodorants when Rite-Aid had their deal.. I spent $ for the Qs from Ebay and hated for them to go to waste. I paid 14 cents OOP per deodorant at Wal-mart using the RA ad. I bought about 15 and lest the rest of the Qs for someone else.

I had 2 Dove deod coupons and a raincheck from RA, because unfortunately a shelf clearer bought 12 of them first thing in the a.m. My coupons were going to expire, but fortunately Wags had them on sale last week, so I did get 2 deods. It's a bummer though when you have in mind a particular deal (4 free deods) and it doesn't work out.

That was nice that you left the q's for someone else to use.

[Deleted]

Good evening ladies!

I'm feeling a little giddy tonight. I like coffee, but have to avoid as much caffeine as possible. I was running a little low when I found a BOGOF coupon for Community coffee; it was for the 12 oz red bag.

I went to a Target, but they didn't have the decaff. I stopped by my flagship Krogers after seeing they had the bags on sale for $4.99 w/card. After scrounging to find the decaff, I was crestfallen because the bag was the 13 oz size and there was no sale sign by it.

I was about to leave the store empty handed when I remembered a lesson from my favorite Walgreens store clerks. Some of you grandmaster couponers probably already know this; there are numbers above the barcode that indicate to which products a coupon can be applied.

I wanted to break out into the happy dance when I saw that my product code was covered by the coupon. If the clerks had not given me that hint, I would have missed out on my 26 oz of coffee for $4.99. Yaaaay me!

[kathyattraverse]

I am still waiting for my rebates from the Neoteric Diabetic cream. Have you gotten yours?? It was end of Nov/beginning of Dec.

[constanz22]

Mar 3, 2011 9:21:59 GMT -5 kathyattraverse said:

I am still waiting for my rebates from the Neoteric Diabetic cream. Have you gotten yours?? It was end of Nov/beginning of Dec.

Yes, I got mine several weeks ago.

[marvholly]

More Safeway (Dominicks) Issues

Seen on another web site:

Safeway has another new coupon book: Pet Pals w/$28 in coupons. Before I tear my Dominicks store mgr a new one, has anyone seen/gotten this book. If yes, what part of the country (ie N. CA, metro Chicago, New Eng….)?

Last weekend store mgr outright LIED to me when I asked for the freezer coupon book. Said he did NOT have it at 11:30 am on Sat but it was there at 8:30 am on Sun. These are WAAAY too heavy to send USPS and USP does NOT deliver on Sat so I really would like to report this jerky mgr to corp.

[dancinmama]

Mar 3, 2011 0:15:18 GMT -5 @texasjunebaby said:

Good evening ladies!

I'm feeling a little giddy tonight. I like coffee, but have to avoid as much caffeine as possible. I was running a little low when I found a BOGOF coupon for Community coffee; it was for the 12 oz red bag.

I went to a Target, but they didn't have the decaff. I stopped by my flagship Krogers after seeing they had the bags on sale for $4.99 w/card. After scrounging to find the decaff, I was crestfallen because the bag was the 13 oz size and there was no sale sign by it.

I was about to leave the store empty handed when I remembered a lesson from my favorite Walgreens store clerks. Some of you grandmaster couponers probably already know this; there are numbers above the barcode that indicate to which products a coupon can be applied.

I wanted to break out into the happy dance when I saw that my product code was covered by the coupon. If the clerks had not given me that hint, I would have missed out on my 26 oz of coffee for $4.99. Yaaaay me!

texasjunebaby: Welcome back to the board!! I'm glad that you were able to get the coffee.

[dancinmama]

Mar 2, 2011 23:02:39 GMT -5 saveinla said:

Deal Alert - SW has the CPK singles on sale for 2.50 and is printing a 1.25 CAT for each one. Combined with the 5$/15 Frozen food promo and the 1$ off 2/20 RP MQ or the FB q, this is a great deal.
Details on the centsable shoppin. HTH

saveinla: Great deal, but no CA Pizza Kitchen coupons in my inserts. I even was lucky enough to get a major metro set that weekend and there wasn't one in it either. Oh well. Just curious as to whether you got them cuz if you get them in the Times I often will get them in the Chronicle.

[saveinla]

Mar 3, 2011 10:16:07 GMT -5 dancinmama said:

Mar 2, 2011 23:02:39 GMT -5 saveinla said:

Deal Alert - SW has the CPK singles on sale for 2.50 and is printing a 1.25 CAT for each one. Combined with the 5$/15 Frozen food promo and the 1$ off 2/20 RP MQ or the FB q, this is a great deal.
Details on the centsable shoppin. HTH

saveinla: Great deal, but no CA Pizza Kitchen coupons in my inserts. I even was lucky enough to get a major metro set that weekend and there wasn't one in it either. Oh well. Just curious as to whether you got them cuz if you get them in the Times I often will get them in the Chronicle.

dancinmama,
I got them in both of my papers - the local one and the Times and tried it last night. Worked like a charm, but I don't have any more Qs.

[dancinmama]

Mar 3, 2011 10:30:46 GMT -5 saveinla said:

Mar 3, 2011 10:16:07 GMT -5 dancinmama said:

saveinla: Great deal, but no CA Pizza Kitchen coupons in my inserts. I even was lucky enough to get a major metro set that weekend and there wasn't one in it either. Oh well. Just curious as to whether you got them cuz if you get them in the Times I often will get them in the Chronicle.

dancinmama,
I got them in both of my papers - the local one and the Times and tried it last night. Worked like a charm, but I don't have any more Qs.

saveinla: Thanks for the info. I wasn't expecting you to have any extra Qs, I was just curious.

[suziq38]

Mar 2, 2011 23:02:39 GMT -5 saveinla said:

Deal Alert - SW has the CPK singles on sale for 2.50 and is printing a 1.25 CAT for each one. Combined with the 5$/15 Frozen food promo and the 1$ off 2/20 RP MQ or the FB q, this is a great deal.
Details on the centsable shoppin. HTH

SaveinLA.
Thank you! I love CPK!
FreeSalsa, SaveinLA, and I have the same grocery stores. Most of us have the major drug stores in common, but all of our grocery stores are different.
The Grocery Challenge is to find a few people that live in the same state or geographical area to compare deals. This is a big help.

I also have "coupon friends:" Coupon Catherine, Coupon Tina, Anita Baby Doll, Coupon Pamela, Coupon Faith, Coupon Two...etc. I see these people in the grocery and drug stores. They "talk my ear off," and are always looking in my cart to see what I am buying, LOL.

If you haven't already, you will find some friends too.

These people would be considered a bit stange by some of my regular friends and neighbors., LOL. I don't care, because I KNOW I am a bit strange myself.
At the age of 50 or more, this is what happens to you. You don't care as much about what the neighbors think, LOL.

[saveinla]

Mar 3, 2011 10:35:05 GMT -5 dancinmama said:

Mar 3, 2011 10:30:46 GMT -5 saveinla said:

dancinmama,
I got them in both of my papers - the local one and the Times and tried it last night. Worked like a charm, but I don't have any more Qs.

saveinla: Thanks for the info. I wasn't expecting you to have any extra Qs, I was just curious.

dancinmama,

I wanted to do the deal a few more times, since I too love the margherita pizza from CPK and that's why I was sad that I did not have any more Qs

[dancinmama]

Mar 3, 2011 10:49:30 GMT -5 saveinla said:

Mar 3, 2011 10:35:05 GMT -5 dancinmama said:

saveinla: Thanks for the info. I wasn't expecting you to have any extra Qs, I was just curious.

dancinmama,

I wanted to do the deal a few more times, since I too love the margherita pizza from CPK and that's why I was sad that I did not have any more Qs

saveinla: I am just shocked that I did not get them. I have gotten them in the past in my inserts. There are Qs in the Safeway booklet for $1/1, but they are for the large ones only.

[saveinla]

Mar 3, 2011 10:38:56 GMT -5 suziq38 said:

Mar 2, 2011 23:02:39 GMT -5 saveinla said:

Deal Alert - SW has the CPK singles on sale for 2.50 and is printing a 1.25 CAT for each one. Combined with the 5$/15 Frozen food promo and the 1$ off 2/20 RP MQ or the FB q, this is a great deal.
Details on the centsable shoppin. HTH

SaveinLA.
Thank you! I love CPK!
FreeSalsa, SaveinLA, and I have the same grocery stores. Most of us have the major drug stores in common, but all of our grocery stores are different.
The Grocery Challenge is to find a few people that live in the same state or geographical area to compare deals. This is a big help.

I also have "coupon friends:" Coupon Catherine, Coupon Tina, Anita Baby Doll, Coupon Pamela, Coupon Faith, Coupon Two...etc. I see these people in the grocery and drug stores. They "talk my ear off," and are always looking in my cart to see what I am buying, LOL.

If you haven't already, you will find some friends too.

These people would be considered a bit stange by some of my regular friends and neighbors., LOL. I don't care, because I KNOW I am a bit strange myself.
At the age of 50 or more, this is what happens to you. You don't care as much about what the neighbors think, LOL.

Suzi,

Glad to help.

Has anyone seen the recent ads in your local TV station for a site called couponsuzy dot com. She says you can print free coupons and when I checked, it has a link to coupons dot com. Not sure why she has a website for that

[mandyms]

Mar 3, 2011 0:15:18 GMT -5 @texasjunebaby said:

Good evening ladies!

I'm feeling a little giddy tonight. I like coffee, but have to avoid as much caffeine as possible. I was running a little low when I found a BOGOF coupon for Community coffee; it was for the 12 oz red bag.

I went to a Target, but they didn't have the decaff. I stopped by my flagship Krogers after seeing they had the bags on sale for $4.99 w/card. After scrounging to find the decaff, I was crestfallen because the bag was the 13 oz size and there was no sale sign by it.

I was about to leave the store empty handed when I remembered a lesson from my favorite Walgreens store clerks. Some of you grandmaster couponers probably already know this; there are numbers above the barcode that indicate to which products a coupon can be applied.

I wanted to break out into the happy dance when I saw that my product code was covered by the coupon. If the clerks had not given me that hint, I would have missed out on my 26 oz of coffee for $4.99. Yaaaay me!

How do you do that?

[dancinmama]

Is anyone else hounding less because of the cost of gas? I know with the changes that my CVS has recently implemented I am no longer willing to run down there like I used to even though it is really close to my home.

[weaselfer]

Has anyone else noticed that the 20% off CVS Qs say "Excludes sale item"? I don't buy anything at CVS except sale items.

[AJ CouponGG]

Dancinmama:
Here is the exact link-sorry I was not more specific. The area that says request my coupons is still there. Scroll halfway down.
www.pgeverydaysolutions.com/pgeds/try-it/tryit.jsp

[dancinmama]

Mar 3, 2011 12:57:37 GMT -5 AJ CouponGG said:

Dancinmama:
Here is the exact link-sorry I was not more specific. The area that says request my coupons is still there. Scroll halfway down.
www.pgeverydaysolutions.com/pgeds/try-it/tryit.jsp

AJ: Okay, I DID see that when I looked it up myself. That is not the coupon booklet that I am looking for but I REALLY appreciate the link and am sure that other gals on here will use it.

[dancinmama]

Mar 3, 2011 12:44:32 GMT -5 weaselfer said:

Has anyone else noticed that the 20% off CVS Qs say "Excludes sale item"? I don't buy anything at CVS except sale items.

weaselfer: Ya, for the most part those coupons aren't worth the paper that they are printed on unless there is some very expensive item that you need to buy anyway and it happen to not be on sale.

[ohmomto2boys]

Is anyone else hounding less because of the cost of gas? I know with the changes that my CVS has recently implemented I am no longer willing to run down there like I used to even though it is really close to my home.

Gas is $3.50 here. I used to run out during my lunch, but now I make a stop at the grocery store or Rite Aid on my way home for the deals. I pass both on my way to pick up the boys.

Giant Eagle - Crest Toothbrushes & Toothpaste - $1. There are 75 cent q's in 2/27 P&G and these are doubled. Pick up another item to cover the overage. A guy here at work just went and got 4 of each and made 50 cents on each one. He bought some gum and paid 63 cents for all of it.

[constanz22]

HOUND ALERT: COLGATE MM AT WAGS
Just went to Wags at lunch and one of the varieties of Colgate Total is on clearance for 1.79. There was a TON of it at my store. I tried it and it gives the $3 RR. There is $1/1 MC in the Diabetes & You book in the store, so, pay .79 after coupon and get $3 RR back!

[dancinmama]

Yeah!! I just saved AT LEAST $30!!

DH has been sick AGAIN for about a week and a half. He picked something up on his business travel to Denver last week and it has effected his throat and voice.

DH HATES being sick (who doesn't) and even though I looked down his throat and could not see anything and he has not run a fever, he wanted to go to the doctor. Well, we have Kaiser and thank goodness they have a service where you can speak to a dr. over the phone. If the dr. believes that you have something other than a virus, then you make an appointment to go in ($30 co-pay); if not, they advise you over the phone as to what to do and what to take ($0 co-pay).

If had not been for this service, DH would have had to drive across town (time and gas), expose himself to other sick people, pay a $30 co-pay, and then $10 for the OTC med the dr. recommended. Due to the service, we saved the $30 co-pay and just had to pay $10 for the OTC med. DS happened to be coming over and was on that side of town so he picked the med up for DH.

For years, I was wondering why on earth no doctor provided such a service. I just assumed that they wanted to collect co-pays. Maybe Kaiser has taken on soooo many patients that it is more cost effective for them to do this. Whatever the reason, I really like it.

[saveinla]

dancinmama and other CA shoppers,
We may not have the SCR items again this week at RA. My friend just got her ad through the mail and she says she cannot see any of the SCR items in there.

I will not get the ad in the mail until Friday night or sometimes until I get the paper, so if I have time, I will go grab one tomorrow and report.

Suzi, If you get your ad today, can you check and confirm? TIA

[AJ CouponGG]

NAG but it's about good deals on other free items.
I was talking with a coworker because I was teaching her ebates and told her I recently bought my contacts through coastal contacts because of price/rebate/and percentage of cash back through ebates and was really impressed with their customer service.
Then she told me she saw on their facebook page they had free glasses they were giving away so I immediately looked into it. Unfortunately my state of Ohio isn't on there but I put in request for them to add it, but maybe somebody else will need a pair and score so here are the details. So go to their facebook page to like it, the click FREE glasses. All you pay is $14 for shipping.

March 2- Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri residents (12pm Central) CLOSED
March 3- Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee residents (They still have 800 codes left to get free glasses)
March 4- Utah, Arizona, Idaho
March 7- Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana
March 8- New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware
March 9- District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia
March 10-Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts
March 12- Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont
March 13- Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas

[AJ CouponGG]

Mar 3, 2011 13:39:21 GMT -5 dancinmama said:

Mar 3, 2011 12:57:37 GMT -5 AJ CouponGG said:

Dancinmama:
Here is the exact link-sorry I was not more specific. The area that says request my coupons is still there. Scroll halfway down.
www.pgeverydaysolutions.com/pgeds/try-it/tryit.jsp

AJ: Okay, I DID see that when I looked it up myself. That is not the coupon booklet that I am looking for but I REALLY appreciate the link and am sure that other gals on here will use it.

Dancin: I gotcha! I was really surprised how thick of a coupon book they sent me and it had 3 coupons for each type all the way through June. I was just excited because normally I get $0.25Qs and it had $1.

[AJ CouponGG]

Mar 3, 2011 13:49:22 GMT -5 ohmomto2boys said:

Is anyone else hounding less because of the cost of gas? I know with the changes that my CVS has recently implemented I am no longer willing to run down there like I used to even though it is really close to my home.

Gas is $3.50 here. I used to run out during my lunch, but now I make a stop at the grocery store or Rite Aid on my way home for the deals. I pass both on my way to pick up the boys.

Giant Eagle - Crest Toothbrushes & Toothpaste - $1. There are 75 cent q's in 2/27 P&G and these are doubled. Pick up another item to cover the overage. A guy here at work just went and got 4 of each and made 50 cents on each one. He bought some gum and paid 63 cents for all of it.

Thanks for the heads up I'm headin gthere tonight!

[dancinmama]

Mar 3, 2011 14:07:28 GMT -5 saveinla said:

dancinmama and other CA shoppers,
We may not have the SCR items again this week at RA. My friend just got her ad through the mail and she says she cannot see any of the SCR items in there.

I will not get the ad in the mail until Friday night or sometimes until I get the paper, so if I have time, I will go grab one tomorrow and report.

Suzi, If you get your ad today, can you check and confirm? TIA

saveinla: YES, YES, YES, please report.

<<falls on her knees begging>>

We can still get the SCRs, but many of them may not be worth it at the regular price. My mom gets a 10% discount and I could buy all of them on her card and submit them on my SCR account and DS's SCR account (I think ), but still. I had planned on cashing in A LOT of my UPs.

[hopetoberich]

Mar 3, 2011 14:17:58 GMT -5 dancinmama said:

Mar 3, 2011 14:07:28 GMT -5 saveinla said:

dancinmama and other CA shoppers,
We may not have the SCR items again this week at RA. My friend just got her ad through the mail and she says she cannot see any of the SCR items in there.

I will not get the ad in the mail until Friday night or sometimes until I get the paper, so if I have time, I will go grab one tomorrow and report.

Suzi, If you get your ad today, can you check and confirm? TIA

saveinla: YES, YES, YES, please report.

<<falls on her knees begging>>

We can still get the SCRs, but many of them may not be worth it at the regular price. My mom gets a 10% discount and I could buy all of them on her card and submit them on my SCR account and DS's SCR account (I think ), but still. I had planned on cashing in A LOT of my UPs.

OK i am confused. Do you mean that because of your CA addy you cannot get these rebates? Or you cannot buy the product.