Comments on: Grocery Shop Club Cards - A little secret

By: Festival of Frugality #81

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By: Family Savings

Family Savings — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:14:27 +0000

I always have the Vons and Ralphs ads in front of me when I do my shopping list. I look over both ads and see what I need versus what’s on sale at each store. I stop by the two stores buying the things that I need that are on sale. It takes a little bit of effort but the savings are huge!

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By: Journey2Retirement

Journey2Retirement — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:09:34 +0000

yeah… Gotta check whether this applies to your grocery store before you go crazy

By: Ann

Ann — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:23:19 +0000

A little caveat here: Not all savings cards will let you only purchase part of the sale offer. One in particular around here requires that you purchase the whole deal or it’s the regular price. Be sure to check your grocer’s requirements on this. And make sure you do have your card with you. This particular one won’t even attempt to look you up to see if you’re in their system.

PetSmart, on the other hand, will look you up so you don’t have to show your actual card to them. I like that because I’m sometimes a ditz when it comes to remembering things.

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Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:42:04 +0000

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By: Journey2Retirement

Journey2Retirement — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:16:09 +0000

That makes sense… I was under the wrong impression that the only reason they did that was to “track” your habits as well as to resell your data. Thanks for the info.

By: Prince of Thrift

Prince of Thrift — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:56:05 +0000

right you are. It’s all how the ad is worded for example if it’s a 2 fer, you can buy 1. On the other hand if it’s buy 1 get 1 free then you have to get both. Another catch is like coke was recently on sale around here for 4 for $11 get the fifth one free. So while you can buy 1 12 pack and get the deal, you aren’t getting the best deal because the real sell price is 5 for 11 rather then the 4 for 11. btw coke 12 packs regular price is 3.99.

As for the selling of personal info, not every company does this. Dillions/Kroger reportedly does. However a regional company in this part of the country (Kansas, Missouri/Oklahoma) known as Homeland (HAC, Inc) and the various names it operates under does not.
Still people give fake addresses and phone numbers, the problem with that is that you won’t get the copouns the company will mail you from time to time.

The point of the card is to save the company money and provide the customers using the card with greater savings. how?

simple if a company goes to the expense of sending copoun mailers out it will cost them more to send them to everyone in an area, even if the recipents does not shop at the store and maybe doesn’t even use the products being advertised. With the card however, they can send the same mailers out to just those that their computers say will buy that item as a result the customer can get bigger savings (for example instead of a 50 cent copoun it can be $1 or even $2).