Omelet wrote:
> I have the same issue with coupons. Most of them are for stuff I'd
> never use, and many more, it's less expensive to purchase a generic
> brand than use the coupon for the same but name brand item with a
> drastically higher price.
>
> They no longer double coupons around here. Used to, but not any more.
> Mom would sometimes save coupons for "treat" foods that we rarely ate
> (things like Toaster Strudels which are delicious,) then we'd go coupon
> splurging when the stores had a triple coupon day. ;-)
>
> We didn't really save anything as those are foods we don't normally
> purchase, and would never purchase without a good coupon.


So many coupons lately are "Save 40¢ when you buy 2!", and for items
where I *might* buy one if it were on sale, but that's it. It's
generally much cheaper to shop at Aldi (which doesn't take coupons) for
90% of my shopping, and Cub Foods or the local convenience store when
they run good specials. Wal-mart is way down the list; I buy dogfood
there, and sometimes paper products, and I scan the produce section for
markdowns and that's about it.

Any time I can use a national brand coupon without really altering my
shopping habits I will, but the way I shop doesn't really lend itself to
that. (Cub and Kwik Trip sometimes print coupons for their specials, i
guess so they can limit quantities easier)

And I have to stay away from TJ's for the most part (I do go there to
buy their tuna curry) because they have such good deals on candy. Try
their pecan pralines that look like sugar-coated pecan halves sometime...

-Bob