Shoppers Food Warehouse has placed an ad online for special in store savings. Shoppers has advertised that when you purchase $25 of participating products, you will receive a coupon for $10 off your next shopping trip. Receiving the $10 back on your next shopping trip is the equivalent of 40% savings, since you will have $10 worth of Shoppers Store Money in your pocket. You will just need to pay attention to the date that the coupon expires, and use it before that date to buy something you need. The dates for thi s offer are from 12/09/10 to 12/15/10.
Several items are priced very competitively. Hunts ketchup is on sale 4 for $5, or, $1.25 each. So, if you were to purchase 20 bottles of Hunts ketchup, you would pay 20 x $1.25, or, $25.
20 bottles of Hunts ketchup @ $1.25 each = $25
20 x $1.25 = $25
Then you would receive at checkout a coupon for $10 off your next shopping trip. This is $10 you may spend on anything in the store, so it is like being able to spend $10 again. If you subtract the $10 from your purchase price of $25, you get $15.
$25 - $10 (savings on your next order) = $15
That is like getting 20 bottles of ketchup for $15, or, like paying $.75 for a bottle of ketchup.
But that is more ketchup than I need.
What if I did this:
$ 5.00 4 bottles Hunts ketchup @ 4 for $5
$ 6.00 4 bottles Guilden's mustard @ 2 for $3
$ 2.99 Wesson cooking oil
$ 4.00 4 Swiss Miss hot chocolate @ 10 for $10
$ 2.08 3 Blue Bonnet margarine @ $.69
$ 5.00 4 cans Ro-Tel tomatoes (or 4 cans Hunts tomatoes) @ 4 for $5
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$25.07
- 10.00 receive back $10 off your next shopping trip coupon
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$15.07, plus sales tax, for 4 ketchup, 4 mustard, cooking oil, 4 Swiss Miss, 3 margarine & 4 cans tomatoes, or, on the average, $.75 per item, including the cooking oil.
But it gets better.
Shoppers doubles coupons up to $.99 every day. If we use coupons for the items we purchase, and then we get the $10 off our next order, our savings will really add up.
Shoppers has a limit of for identical manufacturer coupons per order. Sometimes I find that it is simpler to plan to use only four coupons from any one manufacturer.
But what about the coupon for $10 off your next order? Will it still print?
It has been my experience that using coupons does not prevent the coupon for $10 off your next order to print. Employees do not seem to know this.
Sometimes the coupons print, and sometimes they do not. I have been issued $10 gift cards on numerous occasions by customer service when coupons for promotions for this have not print. This takes time.
Here is what you need to know. In order for the coupon for $10 off your next shopping trip to print, a couple of things need to be set in order first. The coupon comes in the form of a slip printed at the conclusion of your order. The machine, manufactured by a company called Catalina, must have ink. It must be turned on. And it must be properly loaded with paper. Additionally, the items included in the promotion must be properly entered into the grocer's computer system. And you must purchase the exact items included in the promotion.
If your coupon does not print, it could be for any of these reasons.
What if we do this:
$ 4.00 2 Peter Pan peanut butter @ $2 each
$ 8.00 8 Swiss Miss
$10.00 4 Poppycock glazed popcorn
$ 4.00 4 Banquet fruit pie
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$26.00
- 2.00 2 manufacturer coupons $.50 off Peter Pan peanut butter, doubled
- 4.00 4 manufacturer coupons $1 off 2 Swiss Miss, doubled
- 6.00 4 manufacturer coupons $.75 off Poppycock, doubled
- 2.80 4 manufacturer coupons $.35 off Banquet fruit pie, doubled
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$11.20
- 10.00 receive back $10 off your next order coupon
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$ 1.12 plus sales tax, final cost.
I placed an order this morning from Coupon Dede (see my sidebar for link) for the coupons mentioned above. I ordered them very early, so they are supposed to ship today. I have ordered coupons from Coupon Dede before, and they always arrive promptly.
$ 2.99 Wesson Cooking Oil
- 1.19 purchase $25 participating products, receive $10 off your next shopping trip ~ 40% off
- .80 manufacturer coupon $.40 off Wesson oil, doubled, ordered at Coupon Dede
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$1.00 with purchase of $25 participating products
$2.00 Peter Pan peanut butter
- .80 purchase $25 participating products, receive $10 off your next shopping trip ~ 40% off
- 1.00 manufacturer coupon $.50 off Peter Pan peanut butter, doubled, ordered at Coupon Dede
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$ .20 with purchase of $25 participating products,after $10 off your next trip savings
$ 2.00 Swiss Miss @ $1.00 each
- .80 purchase $25 participating products, receive $10 off your next shopping trip ~ 40% off
- 1.00 manufacturer coupon $1 off 2 Swiss Miss, ordered from Coupon Dede
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$ .20 for 2, with purchase of $25 participating products, or $.10 each, after $10 off your next trip savings
$ 2.50 Poppycock glazed popcorn
- 1.00 purchase $25 participating products, receive $10 off your next shopping trip ~ 40% off
- 1.50 manufacturer coupon $.75 off Poppycock, doubled, ordered from Coupon Dede
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free with purchase of $25 participating products, after $10 off your next trip savings
$ 2.00 Orville Ridenbacher's popcorn, 3-4 pack
- .80 purchase $25 participating products, receive $10 off your next shopping trip ~ 40% off
- .80 manufacturer coupon $.40 off, doubled, ordered from Coupon Dede
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$ .40 each with purchase of $25 participating products, after $10 off your next trip savings
$ 1.00 Banquet Fruit pie
- .40 purchase $25 participating products, receive $10 off your next shopping trip ~ 40% off
- .70 manufacturer coupon $.35 off, ordered from Coupon Dede (hurry, only 30 coupons in stock)
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free with purchase of $25 participating products, after $10 off your next trip savings (actually better than free)
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