I cannot believe I am hitting Dominicks so hard and fast! Stopped in for the fish fillets, Bird’s eye veggies and a brown rice steamer. OOP was $2.08 Used an expired BOGO (10/24 s) – in addition to the expired $2/2 coupon from the Dominicks “Muscle” booklet – to get your choice of either another lightly sauced steamer or a whole grain one.
and picked up another 3 booklets…
with apologies to Rachel … Spent the day with MUM, basically hitting every store within a 10 mile radius…and this includes *dum dum dum* Sam’s Club. Yes, even though I espouse the coupon party doctrine, I secretly wanted to see if there was any merit in the warehouse clubs. Since Sam’s Club has a free membership promotion going until January 25th, we stopped in. But first:
Wags: OOP $2.80; got $24 in RRs: 6 Maalox; 20 Chex Mix and 2 Splenda. 20 Chex $1/1 coupons from the Dominicks Football booklet; 6 Maalox $5/1 (1/9 S1) and 2 BOGO Splenda (1/9 S2) and $2/1 ip (from MUM, ’cause I’m too lazy to link it myself). Since this was the only day the cat was working with the free Chex, we hit ’em hard and fast. The Maalox deal continues through the week and boy, do I wish I had ordered coupons (shoulda, coulda, woulda)
Dominicks: 3 loaves of their incredible artisan breads (no coupons, but sheer heaven); 5 Van de Kamp fish fillets and 6 Birds eye steamers; 4 packages clearance Johnsonville Brats; 1 Ranchers Reserve steak. Used a $2/1 Ranchers Reserve coupon from the new book, so the steak was .02, 2 $1/2 Johnsonville Brats coupons (long expired); 5 buy Van de Kamp fish and 1 Bird’s eye steamers and get $2 off, combined with the Dominicks $2 instant savings when you buy them this week (ended up costing $2 for each combo). Had an additional free Bird’s eye when you buy the fish (from the Feb. All You). Total was $22.46, but I used RRs to get down to $8.96.
Target: 4 Chobani quarts of vanilla yogurt (2 pictured): used a rain check to get them for $1.20/each, or $4.88 OOP.
Sam’s Club: The big kahuna, the main event, our raison d’etre … $39.10 before coupons — $39.10 after. Honestly? I just don’t see the allure of this place. I took pictures of some of the items for comparison purposes, so you be the judge…
I think this 5 gallons of Coke bag is odd, although I realize that it’s strictly a business-type purchase.
Paying for Chex Mix seems funny, since they just paid me to take it out of Walgreens. And the salmon? You’re paying almost eight bucks a pound here when it’s less than $4 at Ultra, Jewel or even Aldi. That’s sheer lunacy.
My favorite thing of all? The hand dryers in the washroom! I knew Dyson sucked, but didn’t know it blowed…
or stuff I keep forgetting to post about…
If you’re looking for the $70 Football coupon booklets, avoid the Danada Square Dominicks. An empty display at the front door with no other display anywhere in the entire friggin’ store and most employees clueless. Asked at cs and the young man gave me one. You know you’re screwed when they’ve turned young men into coupon nazis.
Update on the K-Clark $25 Jewel gift card rebates: Peeps who sent in for their rebates within the first few days of the promotion have already started getting their cards in the mail. Catch is that they are coming CERTIFIED MAIL! Yep, so far it’s 100%, so if you get a notice in your mailbox, that’s what it is. Please notify any and all who may or may not be getting a gift card in the mail so they’re aware of it…
Pinch me, please, ’cause for sure I must be dreaming. Picked up all the “stuff” in the picture: 5 Sobe; 4 of the .99 Jimmy Dean clearance sausage; 3 1/2 pints blueberries; 2 Jolly Time popcorn; 2 50% off cottage cheese; 1 package bulk cinnamon; 1 HerbaShine hair color; 2 Cottonelle; 3 dozen corn tortillas; 3 Del Monte smoothies; 4 lbs pork loin chops; 4 loaves of various artisan breads and 11 Football coupon booklets! woot!! I used as many of my free coupons as I could but no coupon for the breads, which just about killed me. I don’t remember the subtotal, just that it was high! After my coupons, it was down to 28.20, so handed over $25 in RRs (remember, the $10 Sinex ones only ran me $1.30 each) and $3.20. The bottom of the receipt shows Total Savings Value 99% $101.93, which works for me. Check out the picture on the right of cake slices.
Oh and Rachel? Mary says “hello” or something with the word hell in it…
Well, apparently Mary aka Coupon Nazi is back and completely refreshed after her few days off (stalker-cam). A reader stopped by last night to pick up a few items: OJ, produce, just a small order. Mary refused to accept wts, saying “I can’t take these because they’re expired.” When told that Dominicks takes expired coupons back one year (news flash!), she replied that Dominicks had changed their policy effective January 1. Reader asked to see a copy of the new policy and was told that employees aren’t allowed to hand out corporate documents. (again, no surprise). So reader said that the new policy should be available on the website, right? (hello smart phones!) Apparently, corporate hasn’t gotten around to updating their coupon policy online… Reader left items on belt and walked out. lather, rinse, repeat…
The only thing that surprises me about the above is that psycho broad continues to use the same lines – can’t she come up with anything more original? And no matter how many calls get placed to corporate about her, like the Energizer Bunny, she just keeps going and going. unfortunately, not out the door…
MUM always posts about the various deals that show up on her personalized Just for You emails – I hit delete. Decided to check it out this morning – just for grins – but nothing funny about it. Now I’m certain they don’t want my business, ’cause my Haas “personalized” avocado is gonna cost me $1.25, while Rachel’s is only .99.
So if the cereal prices they compare favorably to Walmart (!) don’t suck me in , they’ll wave (semi)cheap avocados in front of me. pah
Since I had no luck at another Dominicks, I thought I’d try the one Rachel goes to (I’m stalking her – shhhhhh). So 12 of the Reeses, two 50% off chorizos and one 2L of Pepsi Max (not shown) for a total of…..$3.86. I remember the last time I paid for sausage…but that’s another story in the big city…
and i picked up another Thanksgiving coupon booklet…well, that’s something to be thankful for, right?
Just got an email from Coupons by Dede that she will be pulling all 12/31/2010 exp. coupons off today, the 27th, at midnight. If there’s something you’re getting at Jewel (special order, perhaps?) or plan to pick up, don’t forget that you can buy it now and return within the next 60 days with your receipt and coupon to get your money back. Make sure that the total you pay before coupons will allow them to give you the cash back (ex. don’t bring the total down to a buck using RRs and then look for two bucks back in coupons – voice of experience here, folks!). If your coupons expire before you return with the receipt, it’s fine, since they were current when the items were purchased.
Isn’t it nice to shop at a store where they not only treat you well and value your business, but also have corporate coupon policies written on paper (instead of shifting sand)?
with Dominicks, that is….but first – – –
picked up some more wonderful (Fannie May) chocolate toffee from Hallmark, together with this great card. Not sure, but I think it’s too good to mail. Another pound or so of fudge from Fannie May and elastic waist pants, I’m a comin’.
Wasn’t going to drive to Butera for a couple of lousy pancake mixes (especially since I picked up the free cases at Meijer), but found myself driving past there, so stopped in. You have to understand that many, many years ago (pull up a chair, it’s going to be a while…), before I drifted over to the couponing darkside, I would hit Butera ever week or two because they used to have the most fantastic “deals” on almost-expired products. 
Yes, in hindsight that’s pathetic… Check the pancake aisle and see the small containers for 1.19 and the 1.99 size with an empty space. Grab two of the puny ones and head up to customer service, where I ask to scan for a price check – 1.19. hmmm. Tell the girl that I thought they were on sale for .99. She calls someone and then starts going through the paper, but doesn’t see it. I tell her that it’s on sale in the Piggly Wiggly ad and (she cuts me off here to saw that they’re not the Pig). I know, but someone purchased it and they’re on sale here. (Again interrupt…) Sometimes the online ads are (so I interrupted her to say that if she would stop interrupting me I could complete my sentences.) Well, she gets huffy and I know she’s about to say we don’t have it on sale when an older woman comes up behind us and says “That’s the small one. It’s the larger one on sale, but we don’t have any.” So I say thank you and hit the road. And go to my nice, clean, well-mannered Jewel, where I placed a special order for another two cases of the Manischewitz chicken broth and get some more free bakery bread and bananas. -insert happy dance here- cue Peanuts song
Dominicks, sigh. All I wanted from you was a few, a precious few, Reese’s cups and some Purina One puny little bags of dog and cat food and the free Pepsi Max. sadly, it was not to be…First they told me I couldn’t use the candy coupons without buying some first (even if it works on the register) and then they tried to mark down the $2 Purina coupons to .99. Now, I’m not going for overage here, I was using 1 coupon on 2 bags, but the day they mark down a coupon and then submit it for the reduced amount...well, I’ll eat my hat. So subtract the candy…subtract the dog and cat food….give me back my coupons and oh, yeah, thanks for the Pepsi Max. Dominicks should really start worrying about their next generation of customers: the current crop appears to be roughly 108.
So that’s it for my wonderful shopping. The sun’ll come up, tomorrow, bet your…
