Whole Foods Market keeps touting its new lower prices under its new owner Amazon, and now it wants to show you exactly how much you’re saving when you shop there. That’s even though a new pricing study says you’re not saving as much as you might think.
The entire Coupons in the News article is here, but the takeaway to me is that as more and more grocery stores increase their fresh produce and organic sections, Whole Foods is losing their edge. Read and come to your own conclusions.
Heard this on the business news yesterday (think it was an NPR report), but it’s not as much a “possible” as a “probable,” at least according to the radio. If you want to believe pie in the sky and Walmart eating the increase on their higher food costs, I have some land in Florida…or Alabama…or Georgia for you. Here’s an article from Coupons in the News.
But what what if you could shop at a store that offers the lowest prices of all, promising that “many of our products are priced less than you would pay elsewhere with a coupon”?
If you live near a Grocery Outlet store, you might already be doing your shopping and saving there. And if you don’t live near one – just wait. Here’s the Coupons in the News article.
In case you missed the KFC Mother’s Day commercial, here the YouTube link The KFC Chickendale Dancers…
As a “value brand”, Arm & Hammer laundry detergent is not too expensive. But when you can buy it on sale, with a coupon, it’s even better. If you can find a coupon, that is. Read more about the coupon-not-a-coupon in inserts in Coupons in the News.
Here’s an article from Coupons in the News about a lawsuit involving Murphy USA and Kit Kat. You can read the entire article here, but my takeaway is the following quote:
“Such cases frequently occur when coupons are involved. In all but a few states, sales tax is calculated based on the total before any manufacturer’s coupons are used, but after any store coupons are used. When coupons aren’t involved but an item is on sale, as in the Murphy case, the same principle applies based on who’s funding the discount. If it’s a manufacturer incentive, sales tax is assessed before the discount is applied. But if it’s a store discount – as the plaintiffs in this case argue the Kit Kat sale was – sales tax should only be assessed on the final selling price.”
How does a regular customer know which incentive is funded by the store and which is funded by the manufacturer?
As if it weren’t bad enough that P&G has switched to pages of pretty pictures instead of actual coupons, now they’re cutting back areas of distribution – – again. Here’s today’s article from Coupons in the News.
“We’re making strong progress realizing higher selling prices,” Kimberly-Clark CEO Michael Hsu told investors on Monday. “We’ll continue to monitor the impact on our volumes and competitive activity, but we remain focused and confident on realizing the benefits of the price increases.” Here’s the entire piece of cr*p from Coupons in the News.
That’s the National Restaurant Association, obviously! Opened yesterday with the latest and greatest and, of course, tons of food and the booze wing. Turano is always a staple here and boy, they have good bread.