Giant Eagle Weekly Ad May 27 - June 2

Here are some deals I noticed, let me know which ones you spot!

Buy 4 get $1.00 OYNO (monthly reward)
Pringles super stack cans 2/$3 buy 4
$1/4 05-23 RP = 4/$5 plus $1OYNO

$2.00 OYNO when you spend $10.00 below
Wish bone salad dressing 2/$4
(If shelf cost is $2.50 or greater you should be able can buy 4 and get the $2 OYNO) * confirmation by CherryPicker
buy 4 = $8
2 x $1.25/2 5/23 RP = $5.50 – 2 OYNO = $3.50 for 4
Ragu 46 oz 4/$10 (If shelf is $3.34 or greater you only need to buy 3 to get the $2 OYNO)
3 x .60/1 05-23 RP doubles = $3.90/3 plus $2 OYNO
Bertolli 15 or 24 oz 4/$10
Hellman’s 2/$5 (If shelf is $3.34 or greater you only need to buy 3 to get the $2 OYNO)
3 x .25/1 5-16 RP = $6/3 plus a $2 OYNO
I can not believe the Q is only for .25
Country Crock 2/$5
(You can mix and match these so you end up with $10 buy shelf price and still receive your 2 OYNO)
A possible way to mix it if you do not have duplicate coupons
2 wish bone salad dressings = $4 - $1.25/2 = $2.75
1 Ragu = $2.50 - .60/1 doubled = $1.30
1 Hellman’s = $2.50 - .25/1 doubled = $2.50
total = $6.55 plus $2 OYNO

$3 OYNO when you buy 2 of the following items
Cottonelle wipes refills $3.99
.50/2 4-18 SS doubles
Kleenex bundle packs $3.99
Scott paper towels 4 rolls $6.49
Can be found HERE
bath tissue 12 rolls $6.49
$1/1 4-18 S  * Naturals not included - Thank you CherryPicker!
Huggies little swimmers $6.99
$1.50/1 IP can be found HERE
Huggies jumbo diapers or boxed wipe refills $8.99
$2/1 Huggies wipes IP can be found HERE

$4.00 OYNO when you spend $12.00 on the following items
Edy’s ice cream 4/$10
Edy’s and hagan daz cups 3.6 to 6oz 10/$10
hagan dazs ice cream 14oz 3/$10
Edy’s fruit bars 6 or 12 3/$10
Skinny Cow novelties 3/$10
Dibs ice cream snacks 2/$6
$1/1 5-02 SS
Drumstick Lil Drums 2/$8 
$1/1 5-02 SS

Condiments
kraft bbq sauce bogo free
bulls eye bbq sauce bogo free
French’s mustard 3/$4
.30/1 5-9 SS doubles
Beverage
Aquafina 24 pack 3/$10.00
Coke 2 ltrs 10/$10
Gatorade 10/$10
Pepsi cubes 2/$11 plus $2 off instantly 2/$9
Lipton iced tea bottles 12 pack $4.99
Pepsi 24 oz 6 packs 4/$12 plus 2.00 off instantly 4/$10
Snack
Lays chips BOGO free watch for $1/2 peelies in the store.
Nabisco Ritz or Toasted chips 2/$5
$1/2 5-16 S
Emerald almonds or cashews BOGO free
Pop Secret 6 packs BOGO free
Sweets
Giant Eagle whipped topping 10/$10 (cool whip at SNS 10/$10)
Nestle morsels 2/$5
$1/2 3-21 RP
Nilla wafers 2/$5
Smuckers ice cream toppings 2/$4
$1/2 5-16 RP
Entenmenn’s choc. chip cookies BOGO free
Chips deluxe 2/$5
.55/2 04-18 RP doubles
Dairy
Athenos Hummus 2/$3
.50/1 or $1/1 4-25-10 SS EXPIRES 5/31 = .50 cheap humus only until Monday!
Dannon yogurt cups 20/$10
Sargento shredded cheese 2/$4
if reduced sodium included
.75/1 4-18 SS doubles
Florida natural OJ 3/$9
Breyers Disney or Yogo Crunch $1.99
Breyers Swirled Multipack Lowfat Yogurt Disney Multipack $1.99
.50 5/23 SS doubles
breyers yogo crunch 1.99
.75 Q 3/28 SS doubled
Olivio butter 10/$10
.55/1 01-03 SS = FREE
International Delight creamers 2/$3
$1/2 03-07 SS
Bread
Thomas plain English Muffins BOGO free
Produce
Farmers Market or Fress Express salad mixes BOGO free
corn 8/$2
strawberry or blue berries 2/$5
Frozen
Super Pretzels 3/$6
.50/1 5-2 RP
.50/1 3-14 RP
Meat
Ball Park Hot dogs BOGO
$1/2 5-2 RP
Bar S hot dogs 10/$10
Butterball sausage, turkey bacon or shaved lunchmeat 2/$6
$1.50/1 5-23 SS
Breakfast
Kellogg’s Frosted Mini wheats 5/$15 plus 5.00 off instantly 5/$10
when you buy 5
$1.50/3 5-23 RP = 5/$8.50 = $1.70ea
when you buy 6
2 x $1.50/3 5-23 RP = 6/$9 = $1.50ea
Post cereal Raisin Bran, Honey Bunches of Oats 2/$6
$1/2 5-16 SS
Cleaning
Downy liquid fabric softner 2/$6
$1/1 5-2 P&G
Palmolive 2/$5
.75/1 5-23 SS doubles
or
.25/1 5-23SS doubles (Not sure which will work on this deal)
Raid 2/$7
$1/1 any 5-23 SS
Health and Beauty
Stayfree 2/$5
$2/1 3-28 RP
$1/1 4-25 SS
Carefree 2/$5
$1/1 4-25 SS
Buy 1 Get 1 22 ct Free up to $1.59 3-28 RP
Pets
Iams dry dog food $15.99
Iams dry cat food $6.99

Shop N Save May 27 – June 2

Here are some deals I noticed, let me know which ones you spot!

• Not all SNS stores accept IP’s and some only accept some IP's…check with your individual store.
• When there is a BOGO free each item rings up at 50%, so if you only have Qs for 1 you can just buy 1. Store packaged meat is the exception to this rule, then you need to buy 2.

Buy $20 in participating General Mills Products Below in 1 transaction and save $5 INSTANTLY Yoplait Originals or Whips 10/$6
$.50 on 8 4-25 SS
$.40 on 6 4-25 SS
$.40 on 6 5-16 SS
Cheerios select varieties 4/$10
General Mills Fiber One Bars 2/$6
.50/2 doubles 04-18 SS
.50/2 doubles 05-02 SS 90 cal or Reg.
if 90 cal. included
.50/1 doubles 05-02 SS
Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks 4/$9
Pillsbury Toaster Strudels or Scrambles 4/$9
$.35/1 03-07 SS EXPIRES 5/29 doubles
$.35/1 05-16 SS doubles
Totino’s Party Pizza or Pizza Rolls 4/$6
$.35/1 Pizza Rolls 04-18 SS doubles
$.50/3 Party Pizza 04-18 SS doubles
$1/5 Party Pizza 03-28 SS doubles
Pillsbury Grands! Biscuits select varieties 4/$7
$.40/3 03-28 SS doubles
Pillsbury Ready to Bake Cookies $2.69
$1/3 03-28 SS
Green Giant Boil in Bag Vegis 4/$6
Condiments
Kraft Miracle Whip 2/$5
French’s Yellow Mustard 2/$3
Vlasic Pickles BOGO of the same for free
Open Pit BBQ sauce 10/$10
Beverage
Coke select varieties 12 pack cans or 6pk 24oz btls 4/$12 -$2 off instantly = 4/$10
Dairy
Kraft Cheese Singles 16ct 3/$5 or $1.34ea
Hershey Milk Shake 10/$10
Bread
Shop N Save Hamburger or Hot Dog buns 10 for $10
Produce
Corn 8/$1.99
Sweet Mango 4/$5
Strawberries, Blueberries, Blackberries or Red Raspberries 2/$5
Frozen
Mama Lucia Meatballs, Italian or Home style BOGO free
Hagan Ice Cream 3/$9
Hagan $1/2 ice cream 5-9 SS
Meat
Ball Park all meat franks BOGO free (save up to $3.79 on 2)
$1/2 5-2 RP
Steak-Umm Burgers BOGO free (save up to $8.99 on 2) I would love to hear how you like these, we have never tried them before.
Sweets
Duncan Hines Brownie Mix 10/$10
Cool Whip 10/$10
Breakfast
Fruit Loops, Apple Jacks, Corn Pops Frosted Flakes 5/$10 buy 3 and use
$1.50/3 05-23 RP = $4.50/3
Health and Beauty
Benadryl 20 – 24ct. $3.99 buy 2 and use
$5/2 4-11 RP = $2.98/2
or if you prefer
Sudafed PE 18 - 20ct. $4.49 buy 2 and use
$5/2 4-11 RP = $5.98/2

The Coupon Mom on KDKA

The Coupon Mom, Stephanie Nelson, is the person who inspired me to start discovering great deals here in the Pittsburgh area by using coupons and store sales.  She is now sharing how to use electronic coupons at Giant Eagle, Shop N Save and Target on KDKA. 

Watch the Coupon Mom on KDKA

FREE Reinhold Ice Cream in Manchester, Get While It Last!

Pick up your FREE 3 gallons of ice cream and sherbert in a choice of 34 flavors.
Tuesday May 25 11am - 5pm
at the Reinhold Ice Cream plant at Fulton Street and Western Avenue.

For more information read
Hey, Pittsburgh, who would like a little free ice cream?
By Tom Fontaine
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Kuhn's May 24th - June 1st

The Kuhn’s Weekly Ad Can be found HERE.

Here are some deals I noticed, let me know which ones you spot!

Condiments

Kraft BBQ 10 for $10

Heinz Ketchup $1.88 40 oz

Texas Pete's Hot Sauce 2/$3

Vlasic Relish .99

French’s Classic Yellow Mustard $1.29
use .50/1 3/21SS and 5/9SS doubles = .29

French’s Worcestershire $.99
use .50 doubles = FREE

Beverage

Folgers Ground Coffee $5.99

Minute Maid Fruit Drinks 10 for $10

Coke, Sprite, Dr. Pepper 2 liter 10 for $10

Pepsi, Mt. Dew Lipton Brisk Tea Cube 2/$12 - $2 In Ad Q = 2/$10

Lipton Tea Bags $2.88

Lipton Iced Tea mix $3.49

Lipton Tea Bags, To Go or Iced Tea Mix .60/2 doubles

Capri Sun Fruit Drinks 3/$5

Tang, County Time Lemonade, Kool Aid drink mixes 8ct cntrs BOGO (save $3.99)

Dole Blended Juice 64oz $2.39
if Dole Sensation Natural Lemon Lime or Watermelon Juice included

Snack

Lays Potato Chips BOGO (save $3.99)

Orville Redenbockers Popcorn $1.69
if Cheese is included, use Orville Redenbachers Gourmet Microwave Popping Corn Cheese flavored 3

pack or larger $1/2 = $2.38/2

Dairy

Kraft Salad Dressing $1.88 14-16oz select varieties
use $1/2 5-2 SS = $2.76/2
(there is a better deal at GE until the 26th if you buy 4 and use 2 Coupons)

Kraft American cheese $1.88
use $1/1 4-18 RP = $1.39

Land O Lakes White or Yellow American Cheese $3.99 (save $2.00)

Bread

Kuhn's hamburger or hotdog buns $.88ea

Produce

Whole seedless watermellon $3.88 ea

Southern Blueberries 1 pint $2.99

Red Ripe Strawberries 2/$5

Frozen

Friendly's Ice Cream 4/$10

Klondike Ice Cream bars or Sandwiches $1.99 4-8 ct

Meat

Semi Boneless Rib Steaks $5.99lb save $3.00

Shrimp Ring $3.99

Breakfast

Kelloggs Cereal 4/$10 use 1.50/3 Qs
buy 3 = $2 ea

Walgreens Register Reward Challenge

In most weeks Walgreens sales ads offer Register Rewards (or RRs) for purchasing certain items during that week. The Register Rewards can be used on your next purchase of anything in the store.

My Challenge will be to track

1. How much I have spent OOP (out of pocket)
2. My OOP cost : amount of Register Rewards
3. Retail value of items I have purchased with the RRs.
4. How long I can keep using the RRs I received the week of May 16th – May 22nd

From May 16th – May 22nd they were offering $4.50 RR when you purchased Gillette body wash for $4.49. I was starting out with no Register Rewards since I had spent all of my RRs the week before. I did the following transaction 6 times.

• Gillette Deodorant $5.79
• Gillette Body Wash $4.49

Coupons Used

• MFQ Gil. Deo -$2.00
• MFQ Gil. B.W. -$4.49
• sub total $3.79

I spent $3.79 per transaction and received $4.50 in RR on each transaction. On the 6 transactions I paid $22.74 OOP (out of pocket) and I received 6 Gillette Deodorants, 6 Gillette Body Washes plus $27 RRs.

1. I spent $22.74 OOP (out of pocket)
2. $22.74 OOP : $27 RR
3. Retail value of all items purchased $61.68
4. 1st week

If you would like to try this yourself there are a few things I should explain about Walgreens and RRs. When using RRs, you need to be careful that you are not trying to get another RR from the same company. If you tried to use the $4.50 in RR you received when you bought Gillette body wash on Old Spice body wash expecting to get another $4.50 in RR, you would not receive it. Walgreens counts your RRs as a coupon and their coupon policy requires that you are purchasing 1 item per coupon used. So if you have 2 $3 RRs and try to use them both when buying 1 item the registers will not let you…this is when you will want to have a filler item or an inexpensive item you found in the store as a filler. If the item you are purchasing is less expensive than the RR, you will need to add a filler item.  You only receive 1 RR for each RR producing item per transaction, if you buy 2 or more of the same item producing RRs in 1 transaction you will only receive 1 RR.  If you would like multiples of an item that produces RRs, you will need to purchase them in seperate transactions. 

Are you paying more in sales tax then you have to?

Many of the stores I shop at do not deduct the total of my coupons on taxable items, even though the PA Department of Revenue allows them to do so. I am being over taxed, are you?

 

This week at Walgreens I did the following transaction 6 times.

• Gillette Deodorant $5.79
• Gillette Body Wash $4.49

Coupons Used

• MFQ Gil. Deo -$2.00
• MFQ Gil. B.W. -$4.49
• sub total $3.79

I should have been taxed on $3.79 x 7% or $.27.

 

I was taxed on $10.28 x 7% or $.72.

 

That is $.45 on all 6 of my transactions that I was overcharged, essentially I was over taxed $2.70 at Walgreens.

 

I had the same thing happen at Giant Eagle. Yesterday I brought in this weeks receipts to Customer Service at Giant Eagle and they refunded me my $4.93 they had over taxed me.

 

I was over taxed $7.63 this past week, if the same thing happened every week I would be over taxed $396.73 in a year.  


Giant Eagle and Walgreens are not the only ones over taxing their customers. The same thing has happened at Kmart and Walmart.

 

What can you do to prevent this? Print out a copy of this article, Coupon Clippers Don't Reap Full Benefit at Big Stores, from the December 20, 2009 Pittsburgh Post Gazette and keep it in your Coupon Envelope. After you check out, review your receipt, if you were over taxed take the receipt and the article to customer service and ask for the refund you deserve. If we all do this, maybe the stores will fix their registers to stop over taxing us every time we use coupons on taxable merchandise. 

Hooray to Shop N Save and Target who deduct coupons on taxable items before charging sales tax.

I will also be adding the following PPG article in my Coupon Envelope.
Coupons and sales tax: Know the rules

 

 

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The Beginning

I have had many requests to share how I am able to save so much money while I shop.  It really is not a secret, and I am happy to share with anyone who interested.  I plan my shopping trips according to local sales ads and the coupons that are available.  When trying to decide the easiest way for me to share information on sales and coupons with my family and friends, I decided to start this blog.  This is my first experience with blogging, so please offer tips and be patient while I am learning.