One positive thing about shopping at Dominicks – you don’t have to worry about getting hit in the aisle by another shopper’s cart!  Won’t bother with any pictures:  not that much to show.  Needed brats for grilling, and I still have a few of the $5 store coupons from the Glade deal last month, so thought I’d drive on over and check out the clearance meat section.  Nothing looked good, so checked the dates on the Jimmy Dean sausage rolls, since I always carry around my $2/2.  One roll was dated October 16, so the PITA handed it to the butcher, telling him it was out of date and there were a lot of others with today’s date, October 17.  Thanks, etc.  Get the buns, rolls, cherry turnovers, shhhh and went back to check if they’d been reduced.  Yeah, the butcher had reduced the expired roll to .99 and left all the other rolls on the shelf.  So I did the only proper thing: report him to the manager.  Most of the rolls have the dates stamped just under the seam flap; you have to lift it up to check the date.  Do you really think most people do this?

And no, I have plenty of sausage rolls in my freezer, so I wasn’t hovering around to get more.  And I wouldn’t report someone for an honest mistake, but when you specifically tell the butcher that stuff is expired…  As someone once pointed out, Dominicks accepts expired coupons. which you use on expired products…

I actually wanted the Scrubbing Bubbles, which supposedly had a blinkie dispenser next to these which would have made these a money maker – hah!   And then I realized that I’d thrown out (last week) the February, 2010 inserts which had the BOGO coupon for the Renuzit Crystals.  Since I’d already driven out there, went ahead and got the 3 Crystal refills and used 3 $3/1 coupons, got 4 Smuckers and used 4 $1.50/1 printables and the in-ad coupon which reduced the jams to $1.99.  After coupons, my total was $9.33 (but I received a $5 cat from spending $15 on the Renusit) so I paid with a $5 Wags RR and a $3 Jewel catalina, leaving me with $1.33 OOP.

I had heard earlier today from some shoppers that the ecoupon was now coming off the Tide Stain Release – let’s not wait until the last minute, guys!  Wanted to check it out for myself and yes, it certainly does come off, so got one Tide Stain Release and 3 of the single use Tide powders for tax.  As I always say, you shouldn’t have to pay for laundry.

It has now been commented upon by every site on Earth:  the P&G ecoupons which are supposed to take $3 off the Tide Stain Release (making it free) aren’t working.   The P&G offices closed early on Friday, so can only hope that Tuesday shows it’s been corrected.

When I bought my Tide Stain Release last week, I noticed that the grocery total was $6 (crazy high, I know, for groceries – I mean, why should I have to pay to do laundry?).  I asked the cashier if she was sure my Fresh Values card had scanned – it had.  Then I asked if all the ecoupons had come off and sure enough, the P&G one had not.  I was going to tell her to just take off the Tide, when she hit a few keys and took off the $3.  At the time, I thought it was because I had loaded it onto my card less than 24 hours earlier and so it hadn’t yet registered.  Which was why I posted the deal.  Now, I have to tell everyone that if you haven’t yet done this deal, wait until Tuesday or Wednesday.  I’ll keep checking and when I learn it’s been fixed I’ll post immediately.  If you’ve already done the deal and haven’t yet opened the package, return it to Dominicks and get your money back.  I’d suggest waiting until the glitch has been fixed so you can just rering the same product.