Sunday, August 15, 2010

Randalls run - needed milk since coming back from vacation

I needed milk and that was the perfect excuse to get out of the house and go shopping! I loaded up my Randalls card, printed up coupons and set out for Randalls. I wanted to take advantage of the advertised buy 4 save $4 promo they have advertised. What I like about this promo is that you do NOT have to buy in groups of 4, just need to have 4 or more items to get the discounted price.


Now, I am not exactly sure what happened to a few prices on my first transaction(2 items rang up cheaper?) Here is how I worked the deals:Trans #1: (my card)
Please recall my store doubles/triples ONE like coupon(loadables at face value)
1 Fiber One chewy bars $1.49 - 2 .50 cellfire - 1 .50 shortcuts - .50 IP = -1.01
5 BC fruit snacks .99 each - 2 .50 cellfire - 3 .50 shortcuts - 2 .50 IP = .95
1 Cinnamon toast crunch *.00 - 2 .55 cellfire - 1 .55 shortcuts = -$1.65
1 Cocoa Puffs $1.49 - .55 shortcuts - $1/2 IP = -.06
1 Cheerios * .49 - 2 .55 cellfire - $1 peelie = -$1.61
3 Honey Nut Chex $1.49 each - $3/3 peelie = $1.47
1 Kix cereal $1.99 - .50 in ad coupon - .75 shortcuts - .75 IP = -.01
4 NV nut clusters $1.49 each - $1 IP = $1.96
1 BC warm delight $1.99 - 2 .50 cellfire - .50 IP = -.01
2 Hidden Valley dressings $2.79 - $2/2 cellfire - .50 insert(coupon fairy left it) = $2.58
1 Pillsbury sweet moments $2.29 - .30 in ad coupon - $1 cellfire - $1 IP = -.01
2 Glade candles reduced $2.49 each - 2 $1 randalls.com - 1 $2 Randalls.com - $2/2 in pkg = -$1.02
1 Hostess donuts $2.25 - $1 randalls.com - $1 IP = .25
Cost Oop: $1.85
Earned $3 for buying 5 BC fruit snacks and $3.50 for buy 5 NV granola products(fiber one counts)
*Not sure why the Cinn toast crunch and Cheerios rang up so low? they were supposed to ring up $1.49 each????
Did a second transaction on my moms card so I could get milk. Similar to first, with the exception of me finding a few items reduced with 50% stickers making them MM's, found a MDA coupon book with Bush beans coupon making a can .19, got Bisquick with loadables, etc.
Cost oop for this transaction(it is 2:30 am so I am sorry I am not breaking this down by line item)
$8.19 (used cats from first to pay this amount down)
Earned another $3 and $3.50

11 comments:

KKennedy said...

Glad plastic baggies are a money maker too. 2 @ $2.49 ea - (2) $2/2 cellfire and a $2/2 from the MDA booklets at the front of the store. $1 money maker!!

katycouponers said...

weird, I don't have any Glad cellfire coupons?

Unknown said...

Glad to see your back in action! I have a couple of btfe from Kroger. I'm just a reader and love your blog. Would you like for me to leave them in a comment or email them?
Thank you!
London N

Anonymous said...

How is the Cinn Toast $0?

qrazyguy said...

The same thing happened a few weeks ago with the B4S4 sale, many items rang up either free, or .49 or .99, and again for me this time my cheerios and CTT both rang up as .99. It seems completely random.

What's the story with the Hidden Valley dressing? Is it on sale this week for that price? Last week I saw they were 3.19. But shouldn't another $2/2 loadable come off and couldn't you use the $2/2 from the MDA booklet? I'm just surprised to see you spending that much for dressing. :-)

Deb said...

The Glad coupons are MDA coupons. My Randalls didn't have the MDA booklets last week when I went looking for them. I was speculating that maybe the e-coupons were released to specific areas and the booklets went to other areas. However, since someone was lucky enough to get both, I'm going to keep looking for the booklets. ;)

This Sunday's three-day ad says "buy $25 worth of P&G items, get $10 toward the purchase of a gift card." It also states that "purchases exclude [all] coupons." Does that translate to "$25 before coupons are applied" or to "$25 total remaining after coupons are applied"?

katycouponers said...

London, I know this sounds selfish of me, but I would love the codes emailed to me! My kids go to a very small school and could use all the help they can get to get new playground equipment.
catladyfour4 @ yahoo . com

katycouponers said...

qrazyguy- lol. Yes, I expected the extra coupon to come off on the dressing(and I was actually hoping for a glitch and the 2.50 to come off too, that is why I PAID for dresseing- being the guinea pig). At the time, I had not found the MDA books or yes, that coupon would certainly have helped. The dressing was on sale due to overstock clearance.

katycouponers said...

Anon, I don't know why the Cinn toast crunch rang up for $0, but I was happy to see it :)

katycouponers said...

Deb, that P&G deal has been going for some time and even though it says that, it is definitely PRE coupons :)

Shawn M. said...

Usually when I have multiple q's for the same item loaded onto Cellfire, they will all come off, but this time they didn't. I went last night & got several of the MDA items (sugar, pickles, etc), all of which have at least 2 q loaded for each, but only 1 came off & none of them came off for the C&H sugar, even though I bought 2. Anyone else have the same problem?

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