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Double Coupons
updated: Dec 30, 2010, 10:39 AM

I just watched a special on TLC called Extreme Couponing that I found very interesting. Do any stores in the SB/Goleta area have double coupons?

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Ralphs

Scolari's

Vons

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COMMENT 131893	2010-12-30 11:21 AM
I don't know about any others, but Ralphs does double coupons. But only up to a buck - after that it's face value.
ROGER DODGER	2010-12-30 01:14 PM
Scolori's also does double coupons also only up to a buck.
COMMENT 131936	2010-12-30 02:07 PM
I didnt know stores did that any longer. cool!
COMMENT 131940	2010-12-30 02:44 PM
Oh, I watched this too and was amazed. Don't most stores (even those that double) have a limit on how many items per customer they will sell. This is the part I didn't understand about this show. Like the woman who bought 500 Butterfingers. She had a two for $1 in store special combined with $1 off coupons and so she got them all for free. I'm not sure how that works if you're at a store that limits per customer.
COMMENT 131957	2010-12-30 03:18 PM
I don't really understand how they were able to buy so many of the same item with the same coupon either. I don't think they would limit you if you wanted to buy a lot of one item at full price, but they would likely limit the number you could get at a discount or with a coupon. After watching the show, I searched and found that there's a couponing forum that 2 of the people profiled in the show participate in. They said that the producers of the show wanted to make everything seem as extreme as possible, so it looked like they were hoarding everything. But really, much of it was donated to charity. Also, the last guy said that most of the items he bought in huge numbers were pre-ordered, but the producers had the store put them on the shelves so it would look like he grabbed them all from there. He wasn't really cleaning the store out, lol. So the show wasn't completely "real" in that sense, but it did give a good idea of how it's done.
ROGER DODGER	2010-12-30 03:45 PM
I think some of those people are allowed to score more items than others at some stores. It's really hard to get alot off on coupons I think the most I ever saved on coupons about 40 bucks. I'm more of a club shopper.
COMMENT 131973P	2010-12-30 03:56 PM
Ugh, they'd have to pay me to eat a Butterfinger. Yuck!
COMMENT 132011P	2010-12-30 06:18 PM
Just a couple of years ago, there was a mailed Ralph's ad we received at home which advertised something decadent like Prime Rib roasts or lobsters (can't remember) for an astonishingly low price per pound. It was a crazy offer too, like "only available on Tues from 1 pm to 4 pm", and I remember taking off from work early to make the end of the deal. As I walked in, there were tens of people wandering around the meat and ONE guy in the white butcher uniform. One man (shopper) was yelling at him. A lady was near this argument and she looked mad too. As I got closer, and asked other shoppers, I understood the meat had sold out. I did the rest of my shopping and later went back to the meat counter and asked if the offer was available. I was told by the butcher (now "safely" behind the counter LOL) that the printed ad hadn't included the ever-so-legal-and-required wording of "one per customer" and several local restaurants had come in and bought the store out as soon as 1 pm struck. I asked if he'd share the names of the restaurants, as I wouldn't give them my business upon hearing this, and he didn't. I work in advertising and sometimes crap happens and we miss the legalese. It's up to the, um, "resourceful" consumer to notice these mistakes and stick it to the man. Or their neighbor. Whatever.
COMMENT 132013	2010-12-30 06:36 PM
@131973P, exactly what i was thinking! @132011P, that's sort of the aftermath I was envisioning while watching this show. LOL One thing I did notice that it seems impossible for these types of extreme coupon runs to garner any healthy food whatsoever. Unless you consider candy bars or pot noodles food groups. Speaking of unorthodox food groups, I watched a show that came on right after this where there was a woman who was addicted to eating (clean) toilet paper. (Yes, really.) All I could think was that if she met the couple who 650 packages of toilet paper in their garage, she should move in.
COMMENT 132066	2010-12-31 06:28 AM
NATIVE1, If you front load the TP maybe you don't need to use it post production.
COMMENT 132125	2010-12-31 10:03 AM
Vons and Ralphs both double the coupon up to a dollar. If you use more than one of the same coupon only one will be double, or you can separate your transactions. There are ecoupons that you can load to your club cards and they will add to any paper coupons you have. Unlike many think, you can buy healthy food and save with cpns. Not as extreme as the getting tons of sodas of candy bars (that my family woul never eat). But I have gotten my kids organic yogurt almost free, organic granola and some other organic groceries for cheap. Lazy acres and trader joes both take coupons (don't double) Couponing is fun (& time consuming) when not in extreme. I do have toiletries for all 2011 ;) and yes I have donated body wash & toothpaste to the entire family
COMMENT 132875	2011-01-03 09:30 AM
Extreme couponing? what a sign of the times -- remember when cable TV was obsessed with all things housing-related? Real estate profiteering and house-flipping? Frugality is in, conspicuous consumption out. For now, at least.