I know it's been forever since I posted a grocery store transaction, but the truth is I haven't been shopping much. I've been buying mostly just produce. So, here's my Vons trip today. They will have pasta and hot dogs on sale with store coupons on Monday so I'll be going back then, we can never have too much pasta and hot dogs! The only reason the b4g4 cereal is a good deal is because I had a slew of e-coupons loaded to my shopping card which basically made the cereal free.
What are e-coupons?? Well, e-coupons may be the wave of the future, there are some great things about e-coupons and some not great things, and truthfully overall, the bad outweighs the good, but I digress. E-coupons are coupons that are loaded directly to your shoppers card. Vons and Smiths (and their affiliates) participate in e-coupon programs at Cellfire and Shortcuts. It's very simple, you just go to their site, register your shoppers card and choose the coupons you want to put on your card. They have expiration dates just like regular coupons BUT they are one time use which means you can by 1 item with that coupon and then it's gone. Now, Vons and Smiths handle e-coupons a little differently. At Vons if you buy and item for ex. Honey Nut Cheerios they will deduct ALL the e-coupons you have loaded on your card for that one box of cereal from shortcuts AND cellfire PLUS you can use a regular paper coupon as well, you'll see how this works in my transaction. Smiths, on the other hand, will only deduct 1 coupons per item. So if I had 2 Honey Nut Cheerios coupons they would only deduct 1 unless I had 2 boxes of cereal. Clear as mud???? You can also stack e-coupons with paper coupons at Smiths.
Both Smiths and Vons also have loadable coupons on their site. The Vons coupons from their site have been hit or miss with coming off your card. The Vons loadable coupons are Coupons.com coupons which means if you load them to your card, you cannot print the paper coupon from coupons. com-- Not good! Smiths also has coupons on their site, but they are not linked in any way to coupons.com--GOOD! And although I've only used the Smiths website coupons a couple of times, they have come off without any problems. I LOVE Smiths!
I know it sounds a little confusing, but it's really super easy! Just go to Cellfire and Shortcuts and load the coupons and then shop as normal with your paper coupons! You can also print off a shopping list from both sites that you can keep with your coupons. Both sites load new coupons about every two weeks, sometimes more often.
You can also load coupons from P & G to your Vons card.
Okay, so here's my transaction at Vons today!
NV Maple and Brown Sugar Granola bar Free (B4G4 + free granola bars)
Cinnamon Toast Crunch $1.99
Golden Grahams $1.99
Honey Nut Cheerios $1.99
NV Cashew Nut clusters $1.99
Chicken $6.71
(3) 6 Packs Coke $2.50 ea.
used
$1 NV Nut Clusters IP (coupons.com)
$.75 Honey Nut Cheerios IP (you have to play the game)
$.60 Cinnamon Toast Crunch IP (coupons.com)
$3/3 Coke 6 Packs Peelie in store
$1.50 Cat coupon from previous Purchase
e-coupons
Golden Grahams $ .75 X 2
Honey Nut Cheeriosn $ .55
Nut Clusters $1 X 4
OOP $9.17
So, the e-coupons gave me an extra$6.05 off which combined with my paper coupons made the cereal free plus a tiny bit of overage.
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