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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Kroger Paid Me to Shop! :)

Here is what the grocery store (Kroger) paid me .13 cents to take out of their store last night! Total savings of $23.00! :)





If you are wondering "How?!", here is how I did it:

I'll type the regular prices first:

Dole Mandarine Oranges $1.89 ea
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter $2.08 ea
Danimals Yogurt Cups $2.29
Danimals Yogurt Smoothies $2.29
Platex Gloves $2.79
Idahoan Potatoes $1.39

With the store reward card, you get these sale prices on sale items:

Dole Mandarine Oranges $1.00 ea
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter $1.79 ea
Danimals Yogurt Cups $2.29
Danimals Yogurt Smoothies $2.29
Platex Gloves $1.00
Idahoan Potatoes $1.00

The store reward card is important: You get the sale prices, promotions and gas reward points.

The store is also having what they call a "Mega Event" Sale, which means that if you buy 10 (mix and match) of certain items that are included in this promotion, you'll also automatically get an additional $5.00 off for every 10 items. There is no limit of how many sets of 10 items you can buy, so if you were to buy 10 of the promotion items, you get $5 off, if you bought 100 items, you'd get $50 off, etc. ;)

With the above promotion, the actual prices now are as follows (the items with a '*' in front are part of the promotion):

*Dole Mandarine Oranges $0.50 ea
*I Can't Believe It's Not Butter $1.29 ea
*Danimals Yogurt Cups $1.79
*Danimals Yogurt Smoothies $1.79
*Platex Gloves $0.50
Idahoan Potatoes $1.00

Now the fun begins!!! LOL!
COUPONS!!!

With the store reward card, you automatically get Super Double $1.00 Coupons, meaning that if you have a $1 coupon, it doubles up to the price of the item, and this doubling occurs BEFORE the Mega Event prices, since the Mega Event savings comes off the total bill, not as individual items. ;)

The coupons I used are as follows:

$1.00 off 5 Dole canned fruit
$1.00 off 2 ICBINB
$1.00 off any Danimals (I used 2 coupons, as I bought 2)
$1.00 off any Platex Gloves
and one coupon for FREE Idahoan flavored mashed potatoes up to $1.69 (found this coupon THAT NIGHT on the parking lot as I stepped out of the car!!! YEAH!!!)
The cashier had to put in the price and she put in $1.29.

After sale prices, mega pricing, and doubled coupons, here are the prices:

5 Dole = $0.50 total
2 ICBINB = $0.58 total
2 Danimals = -$0.42
1 Platex = -$0.50
1 Idahoan = -$0.29

So you can see that the Platex gloves covered the Dole fruit, and then the negetive amounts on the Danimals and Idahoan potatoes over covered the ICBINB by -$0.13, which is what my total was and they gave me the .13 cents!