Corey, ???

mally · Senior Member

RE: Corey, ???

apies · Guru

Mally the breadcrumbs didn't work for this deal. They were on the list but didn't generate cats.

Are you on afc or hcw? I'm on both And that was reported by someone right away so I avoided those.

mally · Senior Member

apies wrote:

Mally the breadcrumbs didn't work for this deal. They were on the list but didn't generate cats.

Are you on afc or hcw? I'm on both And that was reported by someone right away so I avoided those.

They did for me! I've done them a few times, and I just did them tonight and they worked.
Tonight I bought:

2 bread crumbs
2 cheerios
2 cinn toast crunch
2 no yolks (free with .75 double)
2 chex
2 grands
1 simply pills cookie

That's 32.29 taking out the pasta. If the bread crumbs didn't work, I wouldn't have gotten 2 cats back.

I am on those...i check the shaws ones, so maybe that's the difference? People were using the bread crumbs on there.

-- Edited by mally on Thursday 17th of December 2009 09:08:12 PM

apies · Guru

mally wrote:

apies wrote:

Mally the breadcrumbs didn't work for this deal. They were on the list but didn't generate cats.

Are you on afc or hcw? I'm on both And that was reported by someone right away so I avoided those.

They did for me! I've done them a few times, and I just did them tonight and they worked.
Tonight I bought:

2 bread crumbs
2 cheerios
2 cinn toast crunch
2 no yolks (free with .75 double)
2 chex
2 grands
1 simply pills cookie

That's 32.29 taking out the pasta. If the bread crumbs didn't work, I wouldn't have gotten 2 cats back.
I am on those...i check the shaws ones, so maybe that's the difference? People were using the bread crumbs on there.

-- Edited by mally on Thursday 17th of December 2009 09:08:12 PM

hmm, then i have no idea!

we had the same deal running and our stores are in the same "family" but the bread crumbs didn't work here. dammit! we needed some!

mally · Senior Member

apies wrote:

mally wrote:

apies wrote:

Mally the breadcrumbs didn't work for this deal. They were on the list but didn't generate cats.

Are you on afc or hcw? I'm on both And that was reported by someone right away so I avoided those.

They did for me! I've done them a few times, and I just did them tonight and they worked.
Tonight I bought:

2 bread crumbs
2 cheerios
2 cinn toast crunch
2 no yolks (free with .75 double)
2 chex
2 grands
1 simply pills cookie

That's 32.29 taking out the pasta. If the bread crumbs didn't work, I wouldn't have gotten 2 cats back.

I am on those...i check the shaws ones, so maybe that's the difference? People were using the bread crumbs on there.

-- Edited by mally on Thursday 17th of December 2009 09:08:12 PM

hmm, then i have no idea!

we had the same deal running and our stores are in the same "family" but the bread crumbs didn't work here. dammit! we needed some!

LMAO, I can send you some smile

I think I got 12 of them during this sale.

I wish there were more consistency with these...it seems as if there isn't a lot.

Joyce · Senior Member

Damn I have to figure out how to get started

mally · Senior Member

Joyce, I am a total newbie at this, but have been saving a LOT of money. What I am learning is the basics to this is to create a stockpile...this takes time. Then, when your stockpile has been built, you can shop from that for your frozen or non perishables and buy your perishables weekly.

Places I read are

afullcup.com
hotcouponworld.com
slickdeals.net

You can get coupons from
coupons.com
redplum.com
smartsource.com

As well as direct...for example, Filippo Berio olive oil is on sale right now for 2.29 at shaws. On their website, if you sign up for their newsletter, you can get 2 $1 off coupons. We use a lot of olive oil here, and that's a good price.

Joyce · Senior Member

mally wrote:

Joyce, I am a total newbie at this, but have been saving a LOT of money. What I am learning is the basics to this is to create a stockpile...this takes time. Then, when your stockpile has been built, you can shop from that for your frozen or non perishables and buy your perishables weekly.

Places I read are

afullcup.com
hotcouponworld.com
slickdeals.net

You can get coupons from
coupons.com
redplum.com
smartsource.com

As well as direct...for example, Filippo Berio olive oil is on sale right now for 2.29 at shaws. On their website, if you sign up for their newsletter, you can get 2 $1 off coupons. We use a lot of olive oil here, and that's a good price.

THanks Michelle! I have been on those site for the past few days just reading up. I have been trying to collect coupons and I need to get ink so that I can print some. I want to try to get organized so I am going to buy a binder and other materials. I also just found out on HCW that you can send expired Qs to overseas military families which is awesome.

I'm going to be picking your brain for a while :)

Corey · Guru

michelle,

sorry--my computer is totally on the fritz (tyvm, connor)....

hmmm...what flavor chex mix did you get? typically the fancy types don't work.

everything else looked fine to me...did the catalina machine beep that it was done after the 2? is there any way it ran out of paper??

mally · Senior Member

Corey wrote:

michelle,

sorry--my computer is totally on the fritz (tyvm, connor)....

hmmm...what flavor chex mix did you get? typically the fancy types don't work.

everything else looked fine to me...did the catalina machine beep that it was done after the 2? is there any way it ran out of paper??

It beeps when it's done? No beep. I actually emailed them, and they got back to me saying 8-10 weeks...I think that meant they were sending me the coupon. Had to give them the info off the receipt. I bought the dark choc before and it worked...the other two were regular chex. The dk choc had a card underneath it.

Corey · Guru

mally wrote:

Corey wrote:

michelle,

sorry--my computer is totally on the fritz (tyvm, connor)....

hmmm...what flavor chex mix did you get? typically the fancy types don't work.

everything else looked fine to me...did the catalina machine beep that it was done after the 2? is there any way it ran out of paper??

It beeps when it's done? No beep. I actually emailed them, and they got back to me saying 8-10 weeks...I think that meant they were sending me the coupon. Had to give them the info off the receipt. I bought the dark choc before and it worked...the other two were regular chex. The dk choc had a card underneath it.

yup. there is a loud beep when it is finished printing. could be that the machine jammed or ran out of paper, since you said you bought that flavor chex mix before.
the tags don't always ring true though-- a few weeks ago old el paso was included in the cat and had tags under the products and not one item worked...obviously some lazy programmer didn't enter any of those UPC's (hence the use of the UPC list)

also, even though pepsi products were listed on that UPC list last week, but didn't work--i think if you actually tried to match the UPC numbers, not just the product names, to pepsi items in your store you probably would have found that the item/number combo on the list didn't match the same item/number at the store. the most likely reason being is that pepsi is probably bottled by different plants who use different UPC numbers--so our regular pepsi in MA probably has a different UPC number than regular pepsi in say Pittsburgh--make sense? pepsi stuff did work in other stores in the corporation, just nto shaws, which makes me think they probably have different UPC numbers in those regions.

mally · Senior Member

Corey wrote:

mally wrote:

Corey wrote:

michelle,

sorry--my computer is totally on the fritz (tyvm, connor)....

hmmm...what flavor chex mix did you get? typically the fancy types don't work.

everything else looked fine to me...did the catalina machine beep that it was done after the 2? is there any way it ran out of paper??

It beeps when it's done? No beep. I actually emailed them, and they got back to me saying 8-10 weeks...I think that meant they were sending me the coupon. Had to give them the info off the receipt. I bought the dark choc before and it worked...the other two were regular chex. The dk choc had a card underneath it.

yup. there is a loud beep when it is finished printing. could be that the machine jammed or ran out of paper, since you said you bought that flavor chex mix before.
the tags don't always ring true though-- a few weeks ago old el paso was included in the cat and had tags under the products and not one item worked...obviously some lazy programmer didn't enter any of those UPC's (hence the use of the UPC list)

also, even though pepsi products were listed on that UPC list last week, but didn't work--i think if you actually tried to match the UPC numbers, not just the product names, to pepsi items in your store you probably would have found that the item/number combo on the list didn't match the same item/number at the store. the most likely reason being is that pepsi is probably bottled by different plants who use different UPC numbers--so our regular pepsi in MA probably has a different UPC number than regular pepsi in say Pittsburgh--make sense? pepsi stuff did work in other stores in the corporation, just nto shaws, which makes me think they probably have different UPC numbers in those regions.

Corey. I figured out what happened, but I don't know why. I contacted catalina and all my items were right, but when he added them up they came to $44 something, where as I get $45.96 based on the prices on the receipt.

His $ amts for three progresso soups are

Upc 00004119601112 Qty 1 Weight 0 Amt 1.70
Upc 00004119640482 Qty 1 Weight 0 Amt 2.24
Upc 00004119641932 Qty 1 Weight 0 Amt 2.50

My dollar amounts on my receipt are:

2.50, 2.50, and 2.99

He said to go to the store. Is that how I should proceed?

Corey · Guru

if your transaction was based on shelf price, the store won't do a thing for you.
i have yet to meet any store personnel that realizes or will admit if they do realize that it is based on shelf price.

plus, you did receive two...the only ones that can actually "see" what the catalina machine did during your transaction (ie that it printed 2, not 3) is catalina themselves.

if it were me, i would probably just suck it up and let the $5 go. if you make a big to-do at the store, you will totally be marked as one of "those" couponers, iykwim;)

mally · Senior Member

Corey wrote:

if your transaction was based on shelf price, the store won't do a thing for you.
i have yet to meet any store personnel that realizes or will admit if they do realize that it is based on shelf price.

plus, you did receive two...the only ones that can actually "see" what the catalina machine did during your transaction (ie that it printed 2, not 3) is catalina themselves.
if it were me, i would probably just suck it up and let the $5 go. if you make a big to-do at the store, you will totally be marked as one of "those" couponers, iykwim;)

True...

But here's the thing. This [articular transaction, I was in a rush to get home, went through the self checkout, and forgot to scan my card (doi)...

So the prices on my receipt ARE the shelf prices, and the sale prices aren't even listed.
I went in a day later to a different shaws and they gave me my savings in cash.

mally · Senior Member

I just hate it when things don't go the way they are supposed to. I don't get why catalina has different prices. That makes NO SENSE to me! Because I didn't scan my card I know exactly what I paid...so in the interest of learning, if I was charged shelf price because I was too stupid to scan my card, my receipt SAYS $2.50, where did the $1.70 come from? No where on my receipt does it say $1.70. It's like he pulled that out of his a$$. Who sets the price??? Obviously it's not added up by the receipt price.

-- Edited by mally on Tuesday 22nd of December 2009 06:33:35 AM

Corey · Guru

i would call catalina back. that man is obviously an idiot. he can look up your transaction by the # on your receipt and see exactly what you paid and what printed or in your case, did not print. that makes no sense that he sees one price and your receipt sees something different.

i didn't realize you had paid full price.

mally · Senior Member

Yea, I didn't actually "pay" full price because when I went in the next day, they scanned my card and gave me $21 back, but initially I did, and the prices are right there for the codes he game me.
I will call instead of email. That's why I didn't get it. He told me the three items that did not count towards the cat were codes for my milk, and two wise chips. I knew those didn't count, so then he gave me the prices and codes for everything else to show me that it adds up to 44.40. Which they do, but his prices are different than the ones on my receipt. I don't get that. Will let you know what happens.

Corey · Guru

they just started the email system recently and i do not know one single person that has had any luck that way...definitely call.