Quick note: I’ve now placed special orders for, let’s just say, a significant number of soups and syrups. The soup comes in cases of 12 and the syrup in cases of 6, so for each case of soup you run you’d need four syrups. As long as you specify that you need the orders by next Wednesday, you should be fine. Don’t forget to get the Wesson oil, too. .50/each is a steal!
OK, figured I’d do a couple of soup runs: I got 6 of the Healthy Choice ones and 2 Hungry Jack pancake syrup (you know I needed it after buying all those pancake mixes at Meijer). Total OOP was .46 —– so I ran it five times!
This deal requires no coupons, none, nada, nothing. You are buying based on the spread between the Preferred Card price (.88) and the $2.89 shelf price (for soup) and the 2/$5 Preferred Card price (for syrup) and 2/$8 shelf price. Spend $25 and up on this Con Agra deal and you get a $10 catalina back. So the shelf price is $25.34, but the Preferred Card price is only $10.46. When you pay you get back a $10 catalina. Keep rolling those catalinas over and over and you are only OOP the .46. Didn’t I say it was easy?
A side note here: My wonderful, adored store manager, Jesse, is leaving our Jewel for Munster, IN, which is one of only four Jewel stores in the entire state of Indiana. I will inject no snarky comments here, although it’s hard to restrain myself. I definitely will miss him. Anyone in Indiana who shops this Jewel is in for an pleasant shopping experience with Jesse: He “gets” couponing.
I think Jesse used to be at my store (Antioch) I loved him and miss him terribly! He definitely gets couponing and is great! Munster, you are lucky!
I have a really stooge question. When you say rolling do you mean I can keep buying the exact same things and then pay with the last $10 cat that spit out?
Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk, then. Rolling down the river with the original ten bucks. For the first transaction I used the $10 cat from the OR popcorn prior day’s purchase. Then I kept on using the prior cat on the next order. Each order was for exactly the same items; end total was $10.46. Pay with the $10 cat and you’re at .46.
I kicked off my soup buying binge today. So you have created a monster out of me. Now, I have another totally unrelated question. What about CVS cards? I had them for me and both my kids, but then asked them to cancel them wayyyyy back. So now that I know how dumb that was, my question is: when I fill out new apps for my hubby, daughter & son, will it reject if its the same address? Shall I turn the apps into separate CVS stores? Also, what about Jewel? Can I do the same thing there? How bout online?
Ooh, dark side questions. Love it! My advice on CVS is to turn in different names with the same property address (how do they know it’s not a 3, 4, 17 flat building?), but don’t put in an email address. Pretty soon you’ll start getting notices on your receipt saying add an email for $5. Well, hell, that’ll float your boat for sure! So make sure you have lots of free emails to use.
The same pretty much goes for Jewel. I’ve used tags I found on the floor, the parking lot, sometimes even my own! The only benefit I’ve found to using multiples was when 1) Avenue actually had something other than the store brand crap they’re now pushing and 2) when you are running multiple transactions at SCOT and don’t want to wait for the register to reset. And YES, you did know that it takes time for that, didn’t you? Always give it a little bit of time, bag your groceries s l o w l y, or let someone else cut in front of you (you know, that full-price paying schnook).
Are you scanning your preferred card before or after the purchase? I’m new and trying to “get” all of this!!
Dawn, actually this is a very good question and one that newbies and “experienced” shoppers ask all the time. IMO it doesn’t matter when you scan the card, the register will take off the discounts and give you the preferred card savings. I usually scan in the middle of the transaction, mostly because I like to talk back to SCOT “Have you scanned your preferred card yet?” and then “Card accepted.” “Thank you for shopping Jewel/Osco.” and yes, I really do need to get out more.
Seriously, there are some people who say you should never, ever scan your card first, claiming all sorts of nonsense reasons (I call them idiots). The ONLY reason I’d wait would be for a catalina trigger, to make sure that the prices ringing up are the ones that will bring you to that threshold. If you read that soup is ringing up at 2.89 non-preferred, but your store has them at 2.79, you’re screwed. At that point you’d have to work in another soup, or something else IN THE DEAL to reach the necessary dollar threshold. Understand? This is actually the biggest reason cats fail to print – the shopper did not pay enough attention to what their store was selling on non-preferred price and was off by ten or twenty cents (and yes, it happens all the time). In fact, the first time I ring a deal and I’m not 100% sure of the price points, I will add more stuff in my cart so that I can throw that extra can/package in if necessary.
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