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- Beginner Coupon Strategies
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Whether you've been a Coupon Clipper for years or are just getting started, using coupons on your groceries and household products can significantly reduce your spending when you apply a few strategies:
1) Combine coupons with sale prices. Manufacturers put coupons in the newspaper (or elsewhere) wanting you to buy now, and that's often your inclination when you clip the coupon. However, by holding the coupon until the product goes on sale, you increase your savings and spend even less.
2) Combine store and manufacturers coupons. Most stores (Safeway, Kroger, CVS, Target, etc.) will allow you to use two coupons per item as long as one is a store coupon and one is a manufacturers coupon. You can find store coupons in their weekly paper ads, or you can head to their websites for printable in-store coupons.
3) Know your store's coupon policy. Do some of the stores in your area double coupons? To what amount? Will they accept multiples of the same coupon? Will they accept internet-printed coupons? What about using two coupons on a Buy-One-Get-One-Free sale item since you're purchasing two items? Knowing your store's policies makes you an informed consumer and helps you save money.
What strategies are you using with your coupons? What do you find challenging about using coupons?
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- Mom2SammyW - April 29, 2009
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Those are great suggestions! Thanks, Gina.
A couple of the stores here won't accept internet-printed coupons. Do you have any suggestions as to how we can prove the coupons are legit? Is there something that we should say to the managers that really works? I've even given one store manager a list of URLs so that he could see online that the coupons were for real. He still wouldn't allow them, so I didn't buy very much there because I was counting on using the coupons I had printed. I wonder if anyone else is having this problem.
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- Pork-and-Beans - April 29, 2009
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Those are great suggestions! Thanks, Gina. A couple of the stores here won't accept internet-printed coupons. Do you have any suggestions as to how we can prove the coupons are legit? Is there something that we should say to the managers that really works? I've even given one store manager a list of URLs so that he could see online that the coupons were for real. He still wouldn't allow them, so I didn't buy very much there because I was counting on using the coupons I had printed. I wonder if anyone else is having this problem.
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I've ran into this problem too. Most stores in my area have also done away with the "double" coupon days as well.
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- ferrari-johnson - April 30, 2009
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Our 2 big grocery chains do not accept on line coupons. They do however, let you use as many coupons as you have items. So, if it it BOGO you can use 2 coupons. The way of thought is....if it scans you get the coupon. Haven't run into any problems. :) One of our wholesale stores (BJ's) takes on line coupons, manufacturers and mail out monthly store coupons. Just received one for April/May and I'm going to make out like a bandit!
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- GinaVA3 - April 30, 2009
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Those are great suggestions! Thanks, Gina. A couple of the stores here won't accept internet-printed coupons. Do you have any suggestions as to how we can prove the coupons are legit? Is there something that we should say to the managers that really works? I've even given one store manager a list of URLs so that he could see online that the coupons were for real. He still wouldn't allow them, so I didn't buy very much there because I was counting on using the coupons I had printed. I wonder if anyone else is having this problem.
- By Mom2SammyW
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It's very difficult to prove the coupons are legit when a whole store or chain has declared them a problem. In my area, we've had a lot of fraud, so they're very careful. I find that the store managers who are educated about internet-printed coupons and train their cashiers are much easier to deal with.
In your case, I would call the Corporate office for your store chain and ask them what their coupon policy is. Often times, it is policy to accept IPs (as they're called). You can ask them to email you a copy of the policy, then take that into your store. I've done that at Target and Walmart before, and it eliminates the hassle of a cashier not accepting the printed coupons.
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- Mom2SammyW - May 02, 2009
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It's very difficult to prove the coupons are legit when a whole store or chain has declared them a problem. In my area, we've had a lot of fraud, so they're very careful. I find that the store managers who are educated about internet-printed coupons and train their cashiers are much easier to deal with. In your case, I would call the Corporate office for your store chain and ask them what their coupon policy is. Often times, it is policy to accept IPs (as they're called). You can ask them to email you a copy of the policy, then take that into your store. I've done that at Target and Walmart before, and it eliminates the hassle of a cashier not accepting the printed coupons.
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Thank you, Gina! I'll definitely do that.
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- CouponsCoach - May 04, 2009
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Just wanted to point out that I've changed my username from GinaVA3 to CouponsCoach. Don't be confused! :)
It's still me, just a new name.
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