My first stop was the Dominicks in Woodridge; hadn’t been there since the shelf-clearing.   No Quaker Squares, so picked up these four Better Oats using two BOGOs.  Since it’s Dominicks, the price is crazy high either with or without a coupon, so used one of the $1.25 OYNO from the CPK and handed over $.86.  And on to

the Western Springs Dominicks…Picked up everything here for $24.59.  Yeah, a lot of money, but I did get quite a few high-ticket items.

2 eight o’clock coffee; 6 CPK singlea pizzas, 1 Cool Juice; 3 dozen vegetarian eggs; 3 Ocean Spray juice blends; 2 boxes Cheese Nips; 1 bag Flaming Hot Cheetos; 2 bags Lays Kettle Cooked and 1 regular chips and 7 boxes Quaker Oats Squares.  The eggs were 50% off; used 3 juice wts; 5 salty snack wts; 1 free Cool Juice coupon (posted this a couple of months ago); 7 $1 coupons for cereal; 2 $4 coffee wts and a $1.25 OYNO from the CPK purchase yesterday.  THE BOY complains that there’s no more room in the freezers or refrigerators – and that’s a good feeling.

Also got a rain check for 10 more cereal.

Went back with coupons and a plan.  Always works better with a plan.  Ran two transactions, since the $5/15 frozen coupon does not stack.  Picked up four of the Coke Classic 20 oz six-packs.  They were on supercoupon for $2.49 ($9.96) and I had three Free Soda cats (expired), so .24 a six-pack.  The CPK singles were couponless, so pay $15 less the $5 and get back $7.50 in mfr cats.  Advil was free using an unexpired coupon.  The Gortons was $3.99 so picked up four less the $5 and four .50 coupons from the Dominicks Football booklet ($15.96 – $5 – $2 = 8.96).  The big splurge was on the Tony Roma ribs on Friday special for $5 each (normally $10.99).  Sometimes I just get tired of THE BOY complaining that there’s not enough meat in the house, you know?  So my total OOP was $42.75 and got back $7.50 in cats.  Grabbed 12 of those $42 Frozen Foods coupon booklets.

This Western Springs Dominicks is freaky-deaky land.  Everyone there was super nice; I must have had at least fifteen people ask if I needed help, would I like for them to show me where things were located.  Even one guy carrying a load of boxes asked if I needed help!   A row of guys in suits went by, and honest-to-god everyone said Hello, need anything? as they went by.  Stepford Management.

So, here’s the way the coupons work until April 1:  If the expired scans it’s accepted.  CS assured me earlier that 99% of the coupons scan.  No RRs, either expired or un-.  No expired OYNO coupons, they must be for a specific product or product category (my Free Soda cat).

Well, they’ve already updated the page to include the expired food media explosion.  Dominicks ignored the past year of comments and complaints; let’s see how many more feet the Safeway CEO has left to shoot.

Stopped in to pick up another football booklet; needed just one more of the Skippy coupons…don’t ask…

Got that and right there in the same display basket on the cs counter (at Danada) was this LIVE Whole Heartedly booklet with $20 in Store Coupons!  Coupons are valid 2/07 – 3/11/11 so let’s hope the sale goddess smiles down on Dominicks in the next couple of weeks, ’cause this week’s a snoozer.

Ignore the crappy picture.  I don’t know why my iphone won’t transfer the edited picture – pissing me off here.

I braved the Danada Square Dominicks, not because I have a death wish or otherwise suffer from low self-esteem, but because I was at the great Wags across the street and I wanted to pick up some .99/lb pork shoulder roasts…which I did.

I took three of these monster roasts (bone-in) which I will have DH smoke.   yummmmy Also picked up four RR chuck eye boneless steak packages at $3.19/lb, which made for some very low-priced packages.  Butcher injected them with marinade and rewrapped them for no charge, so I’ll let them freeze on the back porch and then bring them in and slowly cook for total tenderness.  Needed a giant can of refried beans, cilantro and a few more avocados for our big game nachos platter, so threw them into the cart and headed to check-out.
Without my card the total was $99, but the card brought it down considerably, even more when they put through the $2 RR coupons (all of which went through as .01, and had to be manually corrected).  When I tried to pay with RRs, I was told they were no longer able to accept them, but he did take one $10 RR.  Paid OOP $25.75, which I’d rather have been lower, but I still say I got good value and everyone was exceedingly pleasant, so I’m happy.

Especially since I ate practically the entire platter of fako crab with horseradish cocktail sauce while I waited for the steaks to be injected and rewrapped.

By the way, they did say that their store’s policy is to still accept expired coupons within a reasonable time. definitions, please?

Once again a very pleasant shopping experience at the Woodridge Dominicks – now I’m gonna be jinxed.  Picked up 5 of the RR porterhouse, 3 ripe avocados, 9 of the Banquet chicken nuggets and/or patties, a zillion pounds of bananas and a 2 lb package of fatty ground beef (for nachos tomorrow).  The bananas on my card were .48/lb, had the $10/$50 also clipped and combined the Banquet sale of $2.99 when you buy 3 or more with the $2/1 from the Dominicks Thanksgiving Day coupon booklet.  Can’t tell you just how odd it is to be using the Dominicks coupons at —– Dominicks!

So my actual total was about $25 (from memory – their receipts make me crazy); used two expired $10 rrs and one $3 rr and handed over $2.44 in American currency.