After I got back from Walgreens, I decided to stop by Safeway and get in on a few deals there. I did pretty well:
$25.15 worth of groceries for .59 cents – and I also earned $15 in gift cards! Here’s the breakdown:
First transaction –
Total spent: -.05 cents. They paid me .05 cents!
Total before coupons: $8.48
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Got:
1 box of South Beach Fiber Fit bars – on sale for $2.50, used a $2/1 printable, which doubled. Final price: Free!
1 bag of Purina cat chow – on sale for $2.00, used a $3/1 printable that I received for requesting a pet insurance quote. The coupon stated that it was good on any size or variety of Purina products, which is why I was able to use it on a lower priced bag to receive overage. Final price: Free plus $1.50 overage after coupon and doubles!
2 boxes of Hormel Pepperoni – on sale for $1.67, used two .75/1 coupons from the 1/18 Smart Source newspaper inserts, which doubled. Final price: .42 cents each.
.81 lb. of Bok Choy – .79 cents per pound, final price: .64 cents.
I thought that between the Bok Choy and the pepperoni, I would have more than enough items for the overage to pay for. However, the Bok Choy ended up weighing slightly less than I thought – the scales in the produce department just give you an approximate weight – so between that and my .03 cent credit for bringing my own bag, the register ended up negative .05 cents! Yes, they handed me .05 cents to take these groceries! Keep in mind, Safeway will be reimbursed for the full amount of my coupons by the manufacturer, plus a shipping and handling fee; so they did not lose any money by doing this.
Second transaction –
Total spent: .64 cents
Total before coupons: $9.17
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Got:
1 box of South Beach Fiber Fit bars – on sale for $2.50, used a $2/1 printable, which doubled. Final price: Free!
1 bag of Purina cat chow – on sale for $2.00, used another $3/1 printable. Final price: Free plus $1.50 overage after coupon and doubles!
2 boxes of Hormel Pepperoni – on sale for $1.67, used two .75/1 coupons from the 1/18 Smart Source newspaper inserts, which doubled. Final price: .42 cents each.
.89 lb. of onion – on sale for $1.49 per pound, final price: $1.33.
Third and final transaction –
Total spent: Zero!
Total before coupons: $7.50
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Got:
Three boxes of South Beach Fiber Fit bars – on sale for $2.50, used three $2/1 printables, which doubled. Final price: Free! You are allowed to print two per computer, and I printed these from my desktop PC, my laptop, and Jai’s computer – that’s how I get so many printables.
But that’s not all – every time I went through the checkout, I got a survey invitation:
These invitations printed out from the Catalina machine, and offered a $5 gift card incentive for taking their survey online. At first I thought these were invitations to the same survey, but when I got home I realized that these were all different surveys! I took each of them this morning and should be receiving $15 in gift cards for my time. I love taking these surveys – I got one of these invitations last summer, and I received a $5 Safeway gift card just for spending a few minutes answering their questions.
I’m so glad that the sales are starting to pick up again. The last few months have been pretty thin on the ground, at least in this area, so it’s fun to be getting the rock-bottom deals again!
