Saturday, July 24, 2010

WOW!!!!! Randalls single store going out of business!


Ok, for starters, I had no big plans of shopping Randalls this week. Also, I hope this post does not appear as just a brag post. I had grand plans of hitting Walgreens, Target and Kroger today, but instead, I had to alter my plans. I received a heads up from a reader, thank you Rachel, that a Randalls fairly close to me was reported going out of business. Everything in the store was set at 50% off. I wasn't sure how long this had been going on, and wasn't really sure if there would actually be anything left, but I had a noon appointment nearby so I thought I would scout it out.
Well, this turned into a post with a few suggestions to couponers.
Keep your eyes and ears open. Find coupon buddies and friends and make coupon friends on facebook etc. This is a GREAT way to be alerted to these kind of deals. My reader informed me, she heard the deal from a facebook connection.
Second suggestion: ACT FAST!!!!! I went this morning at around 8:30 am and did a few transactions. The store still had a good supply of stuff and I decided I would go back after my appointment. Three hours later I did just that and the store was nearing BARE status. Even items that "should" not really be considered an amazing deal at 50% off were gone.
Ok, so the great thing to take from this is 1. get friends and listen to deals they find! They can be a wealth of knowledge. 2. You might have to change your plans to act fast on a deal that fades faster than a weekly ad.
Now, I know many won't be able to take advantage of the deals I got, but here are a couple deals I found that you can score that do not seem too bad:
Kraft cheese bricks(and shredded etc) on sale for $1.99
Buy 5 get a $5 oynso catalina. That makes them $1 each, but if you find blinkies at your local Kroger(possibly other stores) for $1/2 shredded, you can get cheese for .50 after cat and sale (I didn't buy shredded because with the 50% sale, I could get bricks free and I needed those more)
Bulls Eye barbeque sauce is $2.19 right now. There are Safeway Grilling booklets out(near the meat counter is where I found mine) with $1 off STORE coupons. I also happened to have a free coupon from hosting a houseparty, so $1 moneymaker.
Kraft dressing is currently on sale for $2. There is a $1 STORE coupon in the grilling book ,and $1 insert from 6-20SS making Kraft dressing FREE.
Ace Wrist Braces were on clearance for $3.09. I had a $1 and a $2 loadable come off my order. These I assume came off the Randalls website.
Febreze Home Collection has a $10 rebate deal on their home collection line when you spend $20(I thought it was $25, so I could have broken this up better). Anyway, the candle and reed diffuser were on closeout for $8.99 each and the Luminar Starter Kit was on closeout for $12.99. We have $5 off coupons from the Parade mag 6-27 and there seem to be loadables on the pg website for $4 for the Starter kit and $3 for the candle.
So if you buy just the starter kit and the candle 12.99 + 8.99 = 21.98 - $7 in loadables - $10 in paper coupons = $4.98 cost oop and mail in for $10 rebate. A profit of $5!
For those curious, I spent: $16.24 and will mail for $10 Febreze and $3 Finesse insert rebate and $5 oynso for Kraft cheese, my profit is $1.26 for everything pictured (this does not include the 1% I earned for the Snyder's pretzels from upromise)

6 comments:

jennie said...

Which Randalls?

katycouponers said...

Sorry, this is the Randalls at Westheimer and Gessner

Colie's Kitchen said...

Dang and I was just at Ragin Cajun! Thanks for the heads up!! I will head over tomorrow!!

Sallyann said...

Yippie! I'm sure everything is gone by now. lol Our nearest closed about 6 months ago, I just happened to transfer a prescription the day it started or I wouldn't have known about it! Only down side was I waited until around 6pm to pick it up, so all diapers/wipes/formula were gone. lol But still made 2 trips and brought home more than $300 worth of groceries for about $50 ($30 of which was paid for with the RX GC!) :) Wish I would have known about this one sooner!

jennie said...

I liked that Randalls. Don't care too much for the Walgreens next to it. And I hate going to the Randalls on Westheimer and Wilcrest. Some of the cashier are very anti couponer. Now I will have to drive way to Sugarland or Memorial for good service.

Anonymous said...

The Randalls at Westheimer and Gessner is going to be torn down (demo started on Friday 08/13) and re-built. I heard it should open in early spring 2011. Supposed to be a very nice store with a good assortment of bells & whistles! :)

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