Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I’m going to give you a rundown of what I purchased for $30.75 at Ultra and compare it to the same or comparable items at Jewel (sorry, Jewel, but you’re gonna lose big time):
Centrella corned beef was $1.48/lb vs. $1.99 for comparable at Jewel.
cabbage was 10¢ a pound vs 3/$1 at Jewel.
dozen large eggs were 78¢ vs $1.79 at Jewel.
El Milagro tortillas were the same price, 39¢.
The Van de Kamp fish sticks were $1.88 – I used a rain check from last month – now they’re $4.79!
Centralla cheese blocks were 99¢ – I used a rain check from last month.
Picked up a 5-lb bag of carrots for $3.99 and a large bag of small red potatoes for 3 lb/$1; sweet potatoes were 50¢ a pound.
The corned beef, cabbage and eggs along would have been almost $6 more this week at Jewel – I can’t say what the difference in other things are, although Jewel has their green grapes on sale for $1.28 and they’re 88¢ at Ultra. This is definitely the week to be at Ultra, although it pains me to say so…
Yeah, I’ve pretty much given up on Jewel. I’ve been hitting Meijer. Ultra is too far from me.
I haven’t shopped seriously at Jewel in about 2 months. Meijer, Ultra and Dominicks are where I go.