Loot from CVS
I had $2.85, so I went to CVS to go shopping.
Jan 062011
Jan 312010
$9.79!
12 bags of Kraft shredded cheese
12 Kraft chunk cheese
3 pounds Johnsonville sausage links
3 boxes Nabisco crackers
10 tubes Pillsbury sweet rolls
8 tubes Pillsbury crescent rolls
6 Philadelphia Cream Cheese
3 French’s Mustard
Jan 212010
Jan 052010
$13.18
Regular price for the 2 packages of Viva paper towel I got is $9.12, so $13.18 ain’t bad at all!
24 boxes of cereal
(2) 2-packs of paper towel
6 Coffee-Mate coffee creamer
Math:
Net cost $8.38!
Not the best photo, but what you are looking at is enough cheese to block up a small horse.
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Dec 112009
Not a bad day at Meijer! Free Red Star yeast, .24 coffee creamer, and cheap Kraft cheese slices!
Total: $30.05* Continue reading »
Nov 252009
I’d never been to a Save A Lot until today.
I don’t think I’ll go back anytime soon. It may just be the location I went to, but the store was unorganized, unclean, and uninviting. Some of the lights flickered. It reminded me of the stock grocery store in every low budget horror film. I wondered to myself while shopping if this store was a physical manifestation of low self esteem as a retail outlet. Yeah, it was that bad.
Save A Lot has some manufacturer’s coupons on their website, so I went specifically looking for some of those things. I couldn’t find them.
I didn’t see any major savings at Save A Lot. Most of the off brand items are loaded with trans fat. I actually found lard for sale there. I hadn’t seen that for sale in years! I was a little skeered of the off brands to be honest, so I tried to stick with brand name items. In fact, after I’d seen a “breakfast pack” with raw bacon, raw sausage and hash browns bundled up, I was totally disgusted by the meat department. I mean, the hash brown potatoes were on top of the raw bacon. No thank you.
I picked up bread from a local distributor, chocolate milk from a local farm group, dish washing sponges, apples from a local packager, i.e. things I recognized from coming semi-regularly off a truck. If it weren’t for the 25% savings off the top with the store coupon, I would have turned around and just left. My cheapness trumped my pride, however, so I went through with it.
I feel bad posting this, because I know some loyal SAL shoppers. I can’t figure out why because I really didn’t see any savings there that weren’t in line with what you can find at Meijer or Kroger, or even WalMart, even without using coupons.
Nov 162009
