Not dishonest, but they are "tricking the system" so to speak. I wonder what this mentality does to other areas of life...
Sometimes I work for people who poor mouth and complain until I do some little free stuff add-ons.
I have heard some people say they would never want to do business with the company they themselves own - because they know how to extract the maximum amount of $$ from the consumer. I don't share that view. I would very much want to do business with myself/my company if I were in need of goods and services. In fact I use that as a measuring stick to keep value in perspective.
The lady I saw who filled the 7 carts actually got over 200 newspapers a week just for the coupons. Her total grocery's without coupons came to over three grand, which she got for about a hundred bucks. It is a literal sickness.
In the past two weeks the Fry's supermarket (about 500 feet from out house) changed their coupon policies where they no longer accept competitors coupons as well as sharply reduced the number you can use on a single item. Now we can actually find some of the stuff we used to get regularly until the "couponers" started hitting it and clearing the shelves.
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We are not extreme couponers, but we do clip coupons religously. We very rarely dine out or grocery shop without coupons.
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We hardly do it to the extreme they do on tv, but if I can get $200 worth of stuff for $20, Im there. If the stores are losing money then they should put forth policies that prevent that loss, however as you said, I dont see any store owners who are suffering when I drive by their homes up in the heights.
A lot of the families on the shows are like mine, 5 to 8 person families that are struggling to make ends meet. We keep about enough to survive a month on if something were to happen.
We don't buy a bunch of stuff we don't or won't use, yet at the same time, our church collects a different item each month for various charity's and if we can go in with coupons and buy that item in bulk for little of nothing then God bless us.
Since we have started we are saving anywhere from $200 to $400 a month on our food/supplies bill. That is a huge savings that can be used for things that we otherwise could not afford to do for our girls.
my only question is, how much processed food are you eating/having to eat because of this?
we try to stick with fresh/not processed....except for Mac-n-Cheese... which you cannot have enough of IMHO....shhh dont tell PO that!
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my only question is, how much processed food are you eating/having to eat because of this?
we try to stick with fresh/not processed....except for Mac-n-Cheese... which you cannot have enough of IMHO....shhh dont tell PO that!
I wondered the same thing because I haven't ever spent more on groceries in one month, than what they save in one months time... we were/are only 4 people. Processed or convenience foods is what can run a grocery bill up. I shop the outer edges of a grocery mainly, only frozen or fresh vegi's and meats...peanut butter is about the only processed food I buy...I refuse to buy snacks, (cept microwave popcorn) I'm too cheap... however, I will bake.
I guess that is another reason why I don't use coupons very often, I don't know of any for milk/meat, eggs... I do try to hit sales where frozen vegi's are 10 for $10..and I get a lot then. I like to buy what the store puts on sale...knowing what I use the most, that is mainly why I stick to Kroger, I love their sales. They send me store coupons based on what I buy with them...and give me free items every couple months. That is always nice.
I am sad that some of you seem to think that extreme couponing is dishonest/bad. I think some people can be unethical about it but I also think there is a right way to do it that is not unethical. For example, Walgreens has register rewards where you can get free stuff. Some people go in repeatedly and clear the shelves so no one else can get any free stuff. That ticks me off. Get your free items and move on.
Those of you that are worried about the stores......they set the rules in place. They are responsible for the rules. The CEO probably lives in an awfully nice place.
I don't think it's dishonest/bad. I think it is shooting yourself in the foot in the long run. When you do it the mega-extreme way. Because what happens in the long run? The stores stop tripling coupons, period. So what could have been a good thing for a long time, ends.
Whether or not the stores make a profit is a valid point - because stores can't stay in business if they don't make a profit. And they know that. So if they start losing a lot of money on these coupon programs, they'll stop having them.
The bolded part above - those are the ones who are hurting all of us, and ruining the programs for all of us.
my only question is, how much processed food are you eating/having to eat because of this?
we try to stick with fresh/not processed....except for Mac-n-Cheese... which you cannot have enough of IMHO....shhh dont tell PO that!
Well, unless you count the mac n cheese, not much. If you count the mac n cheese then all bets are off.
Most of the savings are the expensive stuff, (mind you i have 3 girls) which top of that list is TOILET PAPER !!, and then there is body wash, shampoo, conditioner, deoderant, uummm, ~femine stuff~blah blah blah... which is why we only have been saving about 30 to 50 % is because we do still have to buy the fresh stuff.
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Well, unless you count the mac n cheese, not much. If you count the mac n cheese then all bets are off.
Most of the savings are the expensive stuff, (mind you i have 3 girls) which top of that list is TOILET PAPER !!, and then there is body wash, shampoo, conditioner, deoderant, uummm, ~femine stuff~blah blah blah... which is why we only have been saving about 30 to 50 % is because we do still have to buy the fresh stuff.
I have three sisters... they used to send me in to buy what they were too embarrised to buy and I did it! wihtout being embarrised! LOL...
but I do thank the Sweet Clean Lord Jesus Himself that I have boys! LOL!
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I have three sisters... they used to send me in to buy what they were too embarrised to buy and I did it! wihtout being embarrised! LOL...
but I do thank the Sweet Clean Lord Jesus Himself that I have boys! LOL!
LOL, I will go to the store and get them what ever they need. Not ashamed at all. Matter of fact I usually get that, "awww, aren't you a sweet father/husband" .
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In fact I think that the insinuation of "hateful" Pentecostals is coming mostly from the fertile imaginations of bitter, backslidden ex Apostolics who are constantly trying to find a way to justify their actions. ~ strait shooter
We hardly do it to the extreme they do on tv, but if I can get $200 worth of stuff for $20, Im there. If the stores are losing money then they should put forth policies that prevent that loss, however as you said, I dont see any store owners who are suffering when I drive by their homes up in the heights.
A lot of the families on the shows are like mine, 5 to 8 person families that are struggling to make ends meet. We keep about enough to survive a month on if something were to happen.
We don't buy a bunch of stuff we don't or won't use, yet at the same time, our church collects a different item each month for various charity's and if we can go in with coupons and buy that item in bulk for little of nothing then God bless us.
Since we have started we are saving anywhere from $200 to $400 a month on our food/supplies bill. That is a huge savings that can be used for things that we otherwise could not afford to do for our girls.
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blah blah blah... which is why we only have been saving about 30 to 50 % is because we do still have to buy the fresh stuff.
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