Upfront, I don’t shop Meijer so not sure how things work over there.  The Spend $20 get a $10 cat was showing up all over as something you could roll – –  wrong, since it’s a store calatina.  Each set of six came to $22.18, less six of the $2 coupons from 7/30 rp (I used self-checkout).  Total with high wax was $11.80 and out popped a $10 cat.   But since you can’t roll it, you’re not saving that much money (to me, anyway).  I ran this 3 times and ended up spending about 78¢ a bottle (the first cat wouldn’t scan, so the attendant entered two $5 coupons, which broke the $10 Beauty lock and enabled me to earn a second cat).  But that price isn’t good enough for me; I’ll wait for the next instant savings deal at Jewel, thank you very much.

next time pass – pain in the ass!

Meijer has a two-day Father’s Day Sale (Friday and Saturday) and one of the items shown is Weber seasonings for $1 – there’s a $1 coupon 6/14 S – so figured it would be worth a drive…wasn’t.  These were shelf-tagged at 89¢ (I scanned to be sure!) so figured I’d get a bit of overage and tossed a pack of sponges and a Coke into the cart.  When I checked out at self-scan the coupons auto-adjusted to 89¢, so I had the cashier remove the sponges and Coke.

The belt kept missing jars and saying item not found, which eventually caused the cashier to halt the transaction and complete it at her station.  Ended up paying 86¢ in tax, but that included 25¢ worth of high tax when I hadn’t bought any high tax items and there was also a subtotal amount (which should have been zero).  Cashier suggested I go to Customer Service, but by this time it was almost Saturday and I passed.  As I will on any future deals at Meijer.  Maybe if one were more convenient it might work, but as it stands…no.

Forgot all about posting this deal from yesterday!  FirstBorn announced he was going to Meijer and I jumped on the opportunity to grab some free deodorant, since it’s too far away unless you are grabbing huge quantities of something or have free gas.  Meijer has BRUT deodorants on a temporary price cut to 99¢ – shelf tags for most are over $2!  Use the $1 coupon from 5/18S and it’s free.  FirstBorn was able to get the 16 remaining on the shelf – I was surprised that they didn’t have more, but even without the coupon people were probably scooping it up.

Note:  Since this is a temporary price cut and not a sale, you won’t be able to price match at Walmart.

The Ice Mountain 1L bottles are on sale through July 28th at Meijer for 79¢.  There was a catalina promotion that ended yesterday, but since I needed to get sufficient coupons to make a road trip worthwhile, I pretty much passed on it.  And frankly, Meijer can be pretty pissy about running small transactions just to roll cats (this is a mfr, not a store cat, so you can roll it).  Using the $1/2 coupon from the 6/16 rp means you’re paying 29¢ a bottle.  I plan to come back until my water needs for the entire summer are met (no rain checks). ’cause that’s the only way I want to see water now:  bottled!

Since I was driving around any way, stopped at another Food4Less for razors.  hehehehehe.

The Sunday-Saturday stores reported this unadvertised sale a few days ago, and I was hoping we’d get it in the Thursday-Wednesday areas (we did):  Pompeian olive oil is 50% off.  Use the $1 coupon here and the $1.99 variety will be only 99¢.

You can also pick up some very cheap Smart Balance milk, currently on sale for $1.99.  Use the $1.50  from 2/10 S for 98¢ a gallon milk!  This stuff also freezes very nicely (assuming you have room in your pizza freezer).  Great timing, since DH just brought in the last gallon from the garage refrigerator.  PITA’s off tomorrow (teacher in-service); they said she could spend the day shopping with me.  oh joy…