So Rachel shoots me an email about all the great clearance stuff at Dominicks … unfortunately, I was making money at Jewel so didn’t get over there for a couple of hours, by which time LOTS of stuff had been sold. and i took the rest. Took lots of Cover Girl mascaras and eye liners, which allowed me to use those $3/2 coupons and one lonely L’Oreal hair color, which got the $2 coupon. Pay attention, now, ’cause there’s gonna be a pop quiz later.

Covergirl mascara is $1.33 and I have a $3/2 coupon (well, a few of them). Since Dominicks always just draws a line through the UPC, the cashier enters it as grocery. Gets to the last item, the hair color for $2.25. She says I can’t use it. I say why not? She says that the coupon won’t scan because it’s too low a price (now, this is a new one for me from a Dominicks cashier, and I figure I’d heard them all by now). I pointed out that the coupon was for less than the price being charged and she said that I would be getting it for only 25¢.  I gave her the ole “wanna dance with your Safeway health care benefits, bitch” look (if you have kids, you know the look) and pointed out that it didn’t scan because she entered the hair color as grocery and the register showed nothing to which the coupon could attach.  I did refrain from pointing out that she was giving me overage on the CG – I mean I like to make a point, but I’m not that stupid.  Although Danada Dominicks did tell me that giving me overage would be coupon fraud.  When I pointed out that Jewel’s official coupon policy allows this, she said that was the reason Jewel was doing so bad.  Yeah, like Dominicks is right up there hitting the high notes.  Didn’t have the heart to tell her that Walmart actually gives you the cash back…