Originally posted by: ravana
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Agreed.
Our local Safeway has it on sale buy 1 - get 1 free, we have some $0.75 off coupons AND Safeway double coupons!!!
Plus if we pay using our CitiBank Dividends Platinum Select credit card we earn 5% rebate!
Did you look that up or was it off the top of your head?
check out all your local supermarkets. see which one has double coupons. those will become your new favorite stores. some of you might be lucky and get triple coupons.
every week you should receive a new circular from grocery stores in the area. read it thoroughly, marking down sales items. this week for example, in southern california vons, campbell's chunky soup is 10/10 with von's card. (just get one, who cares if they track your buying, that just means more coupons for you later on.) i also have a coupon for 50 cents off of 2 cans. i'm hunting for more so i can stock up and will be raiding vons daily to stock up on soup.
(note: if you do not receive a circular, go to the store's website. they usually have ad posted there. i don't like looking when i'm in the store, as i can't plan my shopping accordingly.)
no greater glee in the world than seeing the amount you saved is equal to or more than you actually paid for your groceries. coupons are NOT a pain if you plan well. if i know i will be certain items, i take those coupons out in advance and as i'm strolling around the store if i see another deal i will pull the coupon out so i have them ready for the checker when i'm ready to pay.
a better bonus is the citi dividends card as RossMAN promotes. nothing like getting money back on spending on necessities such as groceries! better dividends than discover card for sure, as it's 5% for groceries (unless discover upped their's again, they do run promos from time to time.)
anyways, there's a bunch of us over at gottadeal.com forums - we have a grocery coupon forum there - and we exchange coupons, alert others of deals (i.e. blinkie coupons in stores) and of general good deals.
why pay more than you have to?