Grocery Coupon Guide

Wow! You really score some amazing deals. I imagine the local food pantries think of you as their hero.

Yay, Jeffrey! (Even though those biscuits have the most wax-like fat I have ever seen in a food.)

Couple of questions: How are you able to place orders of cases? Do you have to speak to the manager and if so how are nice or accomadating are they to that? Also, you got those coupons from the books at Safeway right? How many did you get? Did you clean them out at all the stores to buy 737 bisquits or did you speak to the Safeway manager and get a separate shipment of the books? Just curious so I can copy what you did!

How are you able to place orders of cases? Do you have to speak to the manager and if so how are nice or accomadating are they to that?

The few times I have done it I have had no problem and the managers have been extremely helpful. That being said, I assume your experience will vary from manager to manager the same way that different stores treat coupons.

you got those coupons from the books at Safeway right? How many did you get? Did you clean them out at all the stores to buy 737 bisquits or did you speak to the Safeway manager and get a separate shipment of the books?

I never clean out stores of food or coupon booklets. There is nothing more frustrating for me when i find someone has done that when I want to get something for the food bank, so I take extra care not to do that.

The coupons I used were actually split between the Safeway Thanksgiving coupon book out now and the Safeway dairy coupon book that came out about a month ago (both had the same coupon). I did end up getting a lot more books than I normally would have because I did quite a bit of traveling this past week, and I simply stopped into every safeway I went buy and grabbed a handful of coupon books.

I did not ask for a special order, but I think that is something that I will do in the near future and see what type of response I get.

Hope that helps — let me know if you have any further questions.

Coupon policies around here are so different than they are where you are. My local grocer has this catalina deal too, but it’s only the small cans on sale for $1 (and I live in a state with sales tax on food, but I could get over paying that for the joy of making a donation). I’ve looked for $1 off 2 coupons, but couldn’t find any. The best I could find was 50 cents off 2, which they WOULD have doubled, except they limit doubling to the first 20 coupons per household per day, and only 3 coupons for the same item per day. If I could have found 21 coupons for 50 cents off 2 and gone every day AND not stressed using up my double coupon count (it was Super Doubles at HT’s they were doubling Q’s up to $1.98 face value, so for my own household NOT worth the loss for the food pantry’s gain unfortunately), the best I could have done was 42 small cans for the price of sales tax.

Not that they had them in stock any of the days I did go hoping to grab 6 cans for my household to eat for free.

@Sam – I too have had bad luck when going to the HT this week. I get very angry and imagine ritzy folks doing stockpiling for the thrill, when I’m just trying to stretch my food budget. That’s not very fair of me, but it stinks to feel like you never get the freebies, doesn’t it?

@ Sam and Dog Food provider —
I recommend checking with your local HT to see when they stock their shelves. I’ve got 2 HTs near me, and I try to do my super double shopping around the time they are stocking up.

Catalina Type Purchase six or more (6+) Pillsbury Refrigerated Holiday, Receive $3 OYNO
valid 11/1 – 12/26/10

This appears to be a simular deal as the bisuits

I commend you for think of others on a day that we should be giving sincere thanks. Job well done!