As I was getting ready for dinner on Tuesday night, I decided on a whim to pick up some beer to serve with it. While I was at the store, I also found some tea on clearance:
Total spent: $6.29
Total before coupons: $8.27
Got:
1 6-pack of beer – I picked this kind just because it’s so festive! I love holiday-themed groceries.
2 boxes of Celestial Seasonings tea – on clearance for .99 cents, used two $1/1 coupons from the 10/5 Smart Source newspaper inserts. They were both adjusted down to .99 cents,
although the store will still be reimbursed for the full $1 value of the coupon. And this time they wouldn’t double the coupons – I’ve spoken to managers at Safeway before who said it is perfectly legitimate to get overage from doubling a coupon such as this, so long as you are not getting cash back. There doesn’t seem to be any official Safeway corporate coupon policy; it seems to generally be left up to each store to decide their own rules, and everyone seems to have different policies. So, I missed out on a little overage, but oh well!
Here’s what we had for dinner:
BBQ chicken wings and garlic roasted potatoes.
