Last Post

I have decided that this will be my last post. I have really enjoyed blogging over the past year but I can't give the blog all of the time that I would like, so it's time to give it up. Thanks for checking in for good deals and local updates. I will still be teaching Grocery Tutor classes, but can't commit the time to blog. Have a great summer. Hope to see many of you at Rainbow Foods!

Thanks!

Walgreens Deals

Walgreens has a couple of good deals this week.


Nivea for Men Active 3 Bodywash 16.9 oz.

• Regular Price $5.99
• Register Rewards $5.99
• Final Price FREE

Schick Hydro 3 or 5 Blade Razor System

• Regular Price $7.99
• Register Rewards $4.00
• Use $5/1 SS 6/13
• Final Price $1.01 MoneyMaker

I went to one of the Walgreens in Eden Prairie tonight and did the following:

• 3 separate orders:
• 2 orders of (1) bodywash and (1) razor
• 1 order of (1) bodywash

I spent $26.43 and received $26 in Register Rewards! Remember that you can use these RR at Rainbow Foods or Cub Foods. Rumor has it that Target will also accept these, but I haven't tried it yet. I plan to use these RR at Rainbow to enhance my grocery savings.

FREE at CVS

Here are 2 great opportunities at CVS this week:

Schick Hydro $8.97
Extra Care Bucks $4.00
$5/1 6/12 SS coupon
Final Price: $.03 Money Maker (limit one per ECB card)

Gillette Body Wash $4.00
Extra Care Bucks $4.00
BOGO Gillette Body Wash 6/6 PG
Final Price: 2 FREE with ECB

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Old Spice Body Wash $4.00
Extra Care Bucks $4.00
BOGO Old Spice Body Wash 6/6 PG
Final Price 2 FREE with ECB

FREE Snapple!

Hurry! Print these coupons before they're gone! Snapple is offering BOGO coupons on their Facebook page. Click HERE for your coupons. Click "LIKE" and you will be able to print 2 coupons.

Vitamins and Supplements!

This is a great time to be stocking up on vitamins and supplements!

• This week Rainbow Foods has their Nature's Bounty Your Life Multi Vitamins on sale BOGO. This is a new women's vitamin. Price is $10.79. Use (2) $3/1 coupons from SS 6/6 or (2) $2/1 from Grocery Game 1 Get these for as little as $2.40/each. Most of the Nature's Bounty supplements are BOGO this week as well.
• This week Rainbow Foods also has Sundown Naturals Children's Vitamins BOGO. This is for the Marvel Hero's Gummy vitamins. Use (2) $1/1 coupons from Grocery Game 1 to get these for as little as $1.85/each. This is assuming that you are shopping on Sat. and doubling your coupons.
• Next week (6/13-6/19) CVS has Nature Made Vitamins and supplements on sale BOGO limit 6. Use (2) $3/1 coupons from SS 6/6 or (2) $2/1 coupons form Grocery Game 1 to make this a great deal. These vitamins/supplements start at $4.29.

Rainbow Foods Catalina Coupons

I noticed a change in the way Rainbow prints some of its catalina coupons this week. The current Kellogg's cereal promotion includes an instant $10 off and a coupon for a gallon of FREE milk up to $3.00. Typically this milk coupon would print out of the catalina machine upon the completion of your checkout. This week it printed out in the form of a coupon at the bottom of the receipt similar to the CVS ExtraCareBucks. It doesn't look like a coupon so you have to look carefully. This would be easy to miss if you weren't looking for it. I'll keep my eyes open to see if this continues to be the way this type of coupon is presented. Don't let any of these end up in the trash!

Why does Cub Foods accept expired coupons?

I had the chance to visit with a woman who has worked closely with Cub Foods in the past. She shared with me that the reason Cub can accept expired coupons is because they own their own coupon clearinghouse which allows them to reimburse themselves for coupons. This answers the question as to whether Cub gets reimbursed for the expired coupons or not. This also explains why the cashiers at Cub never check the expiration date to see if it's within the 5 mo. period or not. One more piece of local shopping information to tuck away!

Rainbow Match-Ups June 6-12

Click HERE for this week's Rainbow Foods Coupon Match-Ups from Minnesota Coupon Adventure.

Remember that tomorrow is Double Double Coupon Day. Double 10 coupons with every $25 grocery order. This is a great chance to stock up on those things for summer!

$10 Target Prescription Coupon

There was a $10 Target GiftCard coupon in this week's Target ad. It expired on 6/21. Clip this like you would any other coupon and hold on to it in case you need it! If you find that it's getting close to the expiration date and you haven't used it, surprise someone in the pharmacy line with an extra $10! I love paying this kind of thing forward. I am a huge believer in what goes around comes around. Try it and see how grateful a stranger can be!

Gillette Fusion Razors $.89

Here's a great opportunity to pick up a razor for next to nothing! My husband and brother-in-law love these so I pick them up whenever I can. Makes a great stocking stuffer or donation to the local food shelf as well!

Walgreens has the NEW Gillette Fusion ProGlide Manual or Power razor system on sale this week for $9.89 with a $5 Register Rewards bringing the price down to $4.89. There is a $4 coupon in this week's Proctor&Gamble supplement bringing the price down to $.89.

Remember to split your order at the register if you plan to purchase more than one of these. If you buy several in one order then you will only get one $5 Register Reward. If you split your order you will get (1) $5 Register Reward for each one you purchase separately.

Target RedCard Holders MUST READ

Here is a MUST READ if you are a Target RedCard holder.

New program scheduled to start before the holiday season!

MINNEAPOLIS, Jun 03, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) –Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) announced today that beginning this fall guests will receive 5 percent off at check-out every day when they use a REDcard at any Target store or on Target.com.

Target’s REDcards include the Target Credit Card, Target Visa Credit Card and Target Check Card debit product.

“We’re excited to offer this outstanding value to our REDcard holders across the country,” said Gregg Steinhafel, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Target Corporation. “We believe guests will appreciate the simplicity and compelling value of this program, which will lead them to choose to shop more often at Target. As a result, we expect this new program to drive profitable incremental sales, which will more than offset the cost of providing this everyday discount to our cardholders.”

Target has tested this program in Kansas City since October 2009 and guest response has been overwhelmingly favorable, leading to meaningful incremental sales and profits. The response has been particularly strong among our existing better and best retail guests.

This new Rewards program will replace the current Rewards program in which new account holders receive an initial 10-percent-off coupon and existing cardholders earn coupons for 10 percent off a future day of shopping. Guests participating in the current program will continue to earn points until the new program begins.

Target today also announced a change to its Pharmacy Rewards program. Beginning this fall, guests will receive a coupon good for 5 percent off a future day of shopping every time they fill five prescriptions at a Target pharmacy with a Target REDcard. Guests in the program currently receive a coupon good for 10 percent off a future day of shopping every time they fill 10 prescriptions at a Target pharmacy with a Target REDcard.

Thanks Ginger from AttentionTargetShoppers!

Lunds/Byerly's BOGO Sale

Lunds and Byerly's are having a great BOGO sale from June 3-16th. Check your local paper for an insert with lots and lots of items included in this sale. Some highlights include:

• Minute Maid OJ
• General Mills Cereals
• Salad Bar
• 1 gallon annuals from Bachmans
• Wine

Click HERE for the Lunds/Byerly's website so you can see all of the items included in this sale.

Rainbow Foods Update

The word is that Rainbow Foods will be having Double Double Daze on Wed. June 9th. That means that you can double 10 coupons with a $25 order. This is awesome!

Remember that the FuelPerks Program with BP is scheduled to change in July. It's not too soon to begin watching the Sunday ad carefully for details about this. You'd be amazed by the information you can find in the ad if you look through it very carefully.

The Double Coupon Saturdays are also scheduled to end in July. This was extended from the April deadline if you recall. Not a bad idea to begin watching the ad and instore flyers for informaiton about this as well. Wouldn't it be great if this continued? If find it really convenient to stop in early on Sat. for a few items if some of what I need is out on Wed.

Please Rainbow???

FREEBIE at CVS

I first tried this new product last summer when I was camping with the Girl Scouts. Either the mosquitoes weren't very bad, or this worked really well! I have also used this clipped to my camping chair on the soccer field. There were so many great coupons out that you could really try it for free, which is the best way to try new products!

CVS has the personal clip-on device on sale this week for $7.99. The refill packs are on sale for $.2.99. On the CVS website there is a $3 coupon for the purchase of one clip on mosquito repellent product at CVS. You can print 2 of these coupons.

Here are your choices:

• Purchase 2 of the clip-on devices using 2 of the $3 coupons. OOP $10+tax
• Purchase 2 of the refill packs $5.98 OOP only a portion of the tax
• Purchase one clip-on device and one refill OOP $5+tax

Now. . . I went to the CVS in Eden Prairie today. They had the Off display in 3 different places. The first place I looked was next to the sunscreen. The refills that I wanted were out. I found a second display on the endcap. It was nicely stocked. A third location was a few aisles back where these items seemed to be displayed with other miscellaneous items. So. . . the moral of the story is that if you don't find these items in the first location you look, keep looking!

JCP $10 Off $10 Purchase

JCPenney has this offer available from time to time. $10 off a $10 purchase with the code DADROCKS. Click HERE for the JCP website.

$50 Barnes & Noble Gift Card

Here's a great idea for Father's Day! For a limited time Barnes&Noble is offering a $50 B&N gift card with the purchase of a NOOK. What an awesome gift that would be! The NOOK is currently selling for $259. FREE shipping with a $25 online purchase to boot!

Register Rewards Now Accepted at Rainbow and Cub

Here's some interesting news! Walgreens Register Rewards are now being accepted at Rainbow Foods and Cub Foods. Remember that these are Manufacturer's Coupons and need to be used as such. That means that they must match up with an item being purchased. One Manufacturer's Coupon per item is the universal policy. Remember also that these do have expiration dates. Rainbow Foods will not accept expired ones but Cub Foods will! Cub Foods in Eden Prairie will accept these expired for up to 5 months as they do with all other coupons. This is a new policy at Cub Foods, so if the cashier isn't aware of it, be sure to have the store manager fill them in. One more thing to factor in while planning your weekly savings strategy!

Have you ever used your Register Rewards any place other than Walgreens?

Neutrogena Clinical Coupons

Click HERE for 2 Neutrogena Clinical coupons

Gorton's Printable Coupon

Click HERE for a $.50/2 Gorton items coupon

FREE Jr. Frosty from Wendy's

Click HERE for a printable coupon for a FREE Jr. Frosty with any purchase.

Kotex Coupon

Click HERE for a link to a $1 Kotex coupon good on pads, liners or tampons. This is a site that you can visit once a month for this coupon.

Rainbow Foods Matchups 5/30-6/4

Happy June 1st! I'm so excited that summer is almost here!

There are some great deals at Rainbow Foods this week. Free items include:

• Marcal Small Steps Napkins
• Red Baron Pizza by the Slice
• Popsicles
• DanActive Yogurt
• Crystal Light Drink Mix
• Blue Diamond Almond Breeze
• Kix Cereal
• Total Cereal

Great deals include:

• Chicken of the Sea Tuna 47% off
• General Mills Cereal many $1 or less when coupons doubled
• Arrid or Arm & Hammer deodrant 67% off
• Reynolds Wrap Foil $.99 when coupons doubled
• Dawn, Joy, Ivory Dish Liquid 56% off
• Chiquita Smoothies 63% off

I get my grocery deals from The Grocery Game where I can easily personalize my printable grocery list, match up coupons, print coupons and get information about where items are at in the sales cycle. Click HERE to check it out for yourself. Try it for 4 weeks free! Please use me as your referral by entering my email: bmccoy@usinternet.com

Minnesota Coupon Adventure and PocketYourDollars put together weekly lists also. They do a great job of linking items up with internet generated coupons. What you won'd find here is the information about where items are in the sales cycle and the ability to personalize and print your list.

The Grocery Game list and the blog lists are both useful resources when searching for the best deals at the store. I find myself always using The Grocery Game and then adding regional sale items from a blogger list to round out my shopping list.

What do you use for your weekly deals?