she shops at the same grocery store chain as me just in a different town. :)
the thing that bugs me is #1--she is using 'on your next order' coupons as regular coupons. those can't be clipped from a newspaper, etc--you earn them for purchasing certain products. i think that it is a little misleading to viewers b/c those are register rewards, which unless you are a hard core couponer, you won't be getting a ton of to pay with future purchases with. she should explain that in her video.
annoying thing #2-- she hosts a couponing website and charges a membership fee. granted, it is only $1 a year, but there are a TON of free forums out there. there is no reason someone needs to pay $ to save $.
i don't see anything amazing about feeding 6 kids free easy mac, pop tarts and frozen pizzas their entire childhood.
let's hope she gets some free childrens vitamins at CVS!
seriously, good for her for taking advantage of a deal. i am all for that!
but i hope for those kids sakes, when the TV cameras are put away she spends a bit more money to help her kids eat a nutritionally balanced meal... it would be a real shame if she didn't.
she isn't doing that (only eating poptarts, etc). what our store does is run promos where you earn $$ off your next order for buying certain products. last week there was a promo where if you spent $25 in pillsbury products, you got $10 off your next visit. coupons do not count against that $25, so say she had a ton of pillsbury coupons that made her products close to free, she's still get that $10 "play money"
say she did that pillsbury promo 25 times last week and earned $250 worth of those $10 off your next order coupons...she would then use those to buy the items that don't have coupons typically, like meat, seafood, etc.
that's what i was referring to when i said she was a little deceptive...not every store runs promos like that and not every coupon shopper can spend so little without a similar method.
another way she probably gets cheap/free produce, etc is that our store doubles coupons up to .99
how this helps her is like say zone bars for instance--they often go on sale at our store for 1.00 and there are often .55/1 coupons for those. doubled that coupon is worth 1.10-1.00 sale price and that is .10 overage that will cut into other non-coupon items. .10 might not seem like much, but if you have many items that you will get overage from, it can absolutely make a difference.
another way she probably gets cheap/free produce, etc is that our store doubles coupons up to .99
how this helps her is like say zone bars for instance--they often go on sale at our store for 1.00 and there are often .55/1 coupons for those. doubled that coupon is worth 1.10-1.00 sale price and that is .10 overage that will cut into other non-coupon items. .10 might not seem like much, but if you have many items that you will get overage from, it can absolutely make a difference.
corey, our store got new f'n registers and now it automatically only doubles to the price of the item.
that's amazing! i', going to have to pay more attention....the most i ever saved with in store and manufacturer coupons is $40....Never got that much for free though...WOW!
