I have been seeing on several news broadcasts that some of the larger chains such as Target, Walmart,and some other larger grocery and retail stores may be changing their coupon policies because of the "extreme couponing" that is sweeping the US. In these difficult times many households depend on saving with coupons and the extreme savers could be jeopardizing the standard consumers who use coupons weekly just to provide for their families and don't stockpile hundreds or even thousands of items in their homes. Please click on the following link to see one of the news reports. http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/coupon-shopping-food-market-save-customers-retailers-13609257
On a good note, our local stores such as County Pride, Family Dollar, Dollar General, Reeds Pharmacy, Rite Aid and CVS still have their same coupon policies in place. Even though only County Pride doubles their coupons up to $.49, to me it makes perfect sense to stay in our immediate area to save instead of driving a half an hour to an hour somewhere else and paying close to $4.00 a gallon of gas. To me that is not saving...
In my next entry I will hopefully have complete coupon policies for each store in our community....try to stay cool in this heat!! :)
I heard all CVS will change this fall, but I think it is only eliminating the stacking on BOGOs.
ReplyDeleteI like County Pride, especially for meats. They have the best deal and I think they are much better quality. They don't seem to use the dyes and preservatives that the big chains use.
I do go out to Martin's about every 3 weeks. It takes us only about 10 dollars in gas to and from. So I use that as a baseline that I need to save way more than that. I just watch for a good week with lots of good deals. I can often then stop at Walmart and catch a couple deals then too.