Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> In article >,
> notbob > wrote:
>
>> I've been going to Safeway to buy their great turkey bargains for over 30
>> yrs. Never have I encountered a problem. Go in, buy turkey, go out. Today,
>> we went to our local Safeway to buy the advertised turkey sale of $5/$7
>> turkeys, as we/I have done some many times before. Low and behold. once in
>> the store, we were confronted with a disclaimer sign above each frozen
>> turkey bin informing us that we must buy $25 worth of groceries to get said
>> discount! This was not in the flyer. Upon questioning Safeway storedroid,
>> I was informed this was policy for whole Denver district stores.
>>
>> Have any other of you rfc regulars... about the country.... encountered this
>> extortion sales gambit?
>>
>> nb
>
> I always thought it was SOP.
>
>
It certainly is around here, buy something and get a second one "free"
with a ten dollar purchase. Buy x dollars of food excluding tobacco and
alcohol and get x cents off on a ham, turkey, roast. Etc, etc.

That being said, I got a coupon from Kroger for a free Private Selection
turkey weighing from 10 to 16 lbs. Didn't have to buy anything else as I
shop there all the time anyway.

Note: Best time to buy hams around here is right after Christmas. It's a
few months until Easter and the stores need to get rid of the hams on
hand. Same with frozen turkeys. I usually buy as many as I have room in
the big freezer for and then cook, smoke, make soup stock out of stuff
until the next big sale. Getting a Cooks Smoked ham for 39 cents a lb is
a deal around here plus they're a top rated ham.