Out of Stock-Coupons 101

Helpful hint Coupons 101: When the grocery store runs out of an advertised special, you may get a rain check good for another time. Watch the date on the rain check. Often the date is good for only one week. Put the rain check in the must use soon section of your coupons 101 notebook.

This week the grocery offered Coke products-2 litter bottles. The deal is 4 for $5.00 and one free. The soda are $1.79 list. Remember a few weeks ago when the list was $1.59? The jump in price is like gasoline price jumps.

Any way what the offer amounts to is one dollar a bottle saving $.79 per bottle or $3.95 all together for 5 bottles.

On my first trip to the grocery, they were out of my soda. I was fuming and in a hurry so I did not get a rain check. I returned the next day only for soda. There was plenty. I get 25 bottles of soda and go through the check out. It rang up wrong. So I asked why (with an attitude).

Well it seems that the free soda was only on the first 10 bottles unless rung up on two orders. The coupons 101 saver in me pointed out that I wanted the order re-rung. With no argument, the order was re-entered. and I saved a total of $15.80. I will make another trip today just for soda to save $7.90 more. I am a junkie for my soda and the store is only .5 miles away.

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