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.
Update: For those unaware, Jill Cataldo aka MOM BLOGGER will be on CBS (channel 2) today, the 17th on the 5 o’clock news – I’m assuming it’s the Dorothy Tucker consumer reporter segment.
OK, show is over. Does channel 2 go out of their way to deliberately make disparaging comments like that? Jill Cataldo is no more a mom blogger than George W. Bush is a Rhodes Scholar. sheesh! However, now I’ve got an idea: Hows about coming up with fictional books for Dominicks to promote? I’ll throw out the first ones in the Safeway’s in the Kitchen series: Green Eggs and Ham for breakfast or Salmonella and rice pilaf for supper.
One comment made by the co-anchor was a response to Safeway’s comment: “A high level and highest priority team has been assembled to immediately address these issues.” He wondered that selling expired food wouldn’t have always been a high priority for them (and I paraphrase here).
I’m a little late jumping on the bandwagon here, but if I can reach anyone who hasn’t yet read this series of posts by Jill Cataldo, please click. One of her readers purchased frozen meatballs a few weeks ago and served them to her family for dinner. Everyone commented on the “plastic” taste and how terrible they were: obviously they didn’t eat them. The reader checked the package for expiration dates but only found a code, which, when she called the manufacturer, showed the product had expired in 2007. Disgusted yet? Jill then, with the same two people, visited the LITH store to see if this was problem extending to every store (we know that it is) or an isolated instance. Here’s her post from the February 15th shopping trip.
Read and take action? How? Apparently IL has no laws governing the sale of expired food items (with the exception of baby products), unlike New York State, which nailed CVS a few years ago for selling expired food products. and maybe this is why CVS is looking for a greater presence in IL…
by the way, the pictured cheese is a professional and has no ties to Dominicks.
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.
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.
Normally, I’d just stay home, but my toner cartridge was empty!! Since this could easily wind up being the biggest tragedy of the week, I braved the elements.
First stop was Office Depot where they sucked $73 out of my wallet. grrrrr Well, I’ll have to make it up somewhere.
Wags, to check out my Splenda special order and burn some RRs. Well, the order was due on the 3:30 shipment and frankly, I wasn’t going to hang around. kwim? So picked up another Arnicare for DH who is old, tired and weak – you can tell him I said so … Got another 12 of the Snackerz and threw in a BOGO on the Stress B-complex vitamins (had a $1/1 coupon) ’cause being married is so very stressful. Tossed in a pocket tissue for filler, used a $10 Sinex RR and paid $1.73. Got back $6 RR for the Arnicare.
Dominicks to burn some expiring RRs: Picked up 3 of the boneless pork chops wrapped separately so I could use 3 of the $1 pork mfr coupons from Jewel a few months ago (exp. 11/15); 1 small RR chuck roast ($2 q) and 1 porterhouse ($2 q); 2 lbs of the sale asparagus; 4 pounds of ruby red grapefruit; 6 1/2 pounds of honey tangerines; 18-ct eggs (supercoupon) and 2 loaves of Asiago cheese bread. Total came to something crazy high, but after coupons we were at $29.52 (.51 was tax). Handed over 2 $10 RRs, a $6 RR and a $3 and .52 cents.
The comedy portion of this trip was being told by the cashier that he could only take RRs for things that Dominicks sells (?). He checked with his supervisor and was told that as long as it scanned, they could take it. None of the $10 RRs from the appetite spray would scan, so handed over a P&G and a Joint Juice and we were good to go. Got a call from a reader that another Dominicks told her that she could only use one $2 RR coupon per order, even though the cashier could not point to the wording on the coupon where it said so…
Oh, and got another coupon booklet.
Couponers don’t play Lotto, we play Dominicks!
Just got a call from a reader who stopped at the Woodridge Dominicks a few minutes ago to pick up some steaks: The store is wiped out! She saw maybe 20 packages of butter, 12 gallons of milk, only organic eggs, no RR porterhouse steaks (pretty much all the meat gone) with the frozens cleared out (two little pizzas sitting in an endcap).
is there snow predicted?
While at Dominicks a short while ago…checking out the cheap meat to use with my $2 coupon, dontchaknow… the butcher comes up to me and asks me if I like Porterhouse steaks. It’s only my favorite type! She tells me that starting Sunday, the Porterhouse steaks will be $4.99/lb in the large value packs and (she thought) $5.49/lb for the individual ones. You know which ones we will all be stocking up on, right? We’re talking a couple of bucks, MAX, for non-clearance stuff.
Yet another time when the clearance meats will be more expensive than the sale stuff!
And I only took one coupon booklet. see how considerate i am?
the store, not the guy…perv
I pick up the PITA at school and head over to Chick-fil-A for their 
today only promo of a free sandwich when you say the secret phrase: Chick-fil-A rocks my socks…. shudder… the things I do for free. After that, decided to check out the grapefruit sale at Dominicks (3 lbs/$1); hoped I’d get maybe ONE coupon booklet…so not only is there a sale on the ruby red grapefruit, the honey tangerines are 2 lbs/$1! This is a great deal, especially since my aborted trip to Ultra shithole included a very small bag of these for $1.39 lb. So here’s what I ended up with, besides the two sets of coupon books pictured: 1 RR cube steak for $2.58 ($2 RR q); 2 Horizon organic puny milks ($1/1 ip); 2 quarts Lucerne clearance creamer; New York Style bagel chips ($3.99/1 ip); almost 5 pounds each of the tangerines and grapefruit. Total was $9.77 and I used an expired $6 RR to get down to 3.77 – sweet, pun intended.
I had to pass the deli section looking for the bagel chips (and I did not intend to stuff my fat face sample the wide selection of cheeses put out with little toothpicks). They had a full freezer of gelato and a cooler of sushi (pictured). Both were extremely reasonable and fresh-appearing. Even using restaurant.com at sushi places, there are times when you just want to sit in your underwear and eat – – not that i would know about going out in my underwear — except for that time….no, wait, I’m sure that that’s been expunged.
I cannot in my life remember a time when I hit Dominicks three times in one week – and I wasn’t there just taking coupon booklets, either! Today’s excursion into the Twilight Zone went smoothly, with clean, well-lit aisles, friendly cashiers and customer service people all happy to take all my coupons and register rewards. Understand the Twilight Zone reference now?
This was a very pleasant shopping experience for me. I split the order into two, just because it’s hard to see what coupons go with what. Ran 5 (put in trunk) and then 4. Total of 9 Van de Kamp fish, 18 steamer veggies, 9 steamer brown rice and 2 10-lb bags of russet potatoes (supercoupon). Total was $33.12 for both transactions; I used the $3.50 Chex RR, the $5 Go! RR, 2 $10 Sinex RRs and paid out $4.62.