Coupons.

[panophobia]

I feel really silly asking this, especially when I could just drive to the store and find out...but it's keeping me up

Comments

[daisyrainwater]

It means, I think, that you buy 8 and get a dollar off the total. So if something is 1.99, you pay 16 bucks, minus the dollar off.

EDIT: Since I'm single, I don't use any coupon that is buy more than one for the deal (unless it's for cat food or something). I think they're mostly aimed at families or people who are stocking up.

[heatherejc]

You get one single dollar off of the total price of 8 items. Those coupons irritate me, but I still use them when the coupon is for something that I will definitely buy in that quantity, like yogurt cups.

I much prefer the $1 off one item coupons better, and then I buy as many of that item as I have of that same coupon. I tend to get 2-3 of each coupon, since I take the coupons from the people I babysit for (they don't use them), and also trade coupons with a friend (I get the ones she doesn't clip and vice versa).

[alex_askew]

Sometimes it depends on where you shop. At Target, they will usually give you the discounted price even if you don't buy all 8, but at other retailers, this is not always the case.

[greycoupon]

Is that with a manufacturers coupon or a target store coupon. If it is the former they aren't supposed to do that.

[alex_askew]

no no, store coupons. Sorry, I guess I've never seen a manufacturer's coupon at Target before. And actually, in hindsight, I was really just talking about the signs, i.e. "2 for 5.oo" tag on the shelf. It may be different for coupons, though I'd be surprised.

[aithyne]

Yeah, it's different.

[strawdogs]

always keep in mind that a lot of money-saving deals are made to be misleading.... and in a case like this where you're not sure if you're getting a good deal or a kind of shitty one.... chances are it's a shitty one!

but yea, don't get sucked into buying a ton of something that you'll never eat a ton of...... probably it'll go bad before you have a chance to eat it!

[spicycurvydiva]

I see you got the coupon question answered already BUT one really awesome thing I learned is that at Kroger, buy one get one free just means 'buy one and it is half price'. You don't have to buy the second one.

[greycoupon]

This is correct at many stores. The key is to call and ask a manager ahead of time. Kroger didn't used to do this but they changed the policy a few years back.

Publix, for example, rings up buy one get one free items at half price each in Georgia. So if a box of Kelloggs cereal is $3.50 and on sale BOGO you can buy one box for $1.75

Publix in Florida however, would ring it up as $3.50 for the first box and $0.00 for the second.

It varies by chain and even geographic area how this is handled.

[jewel_case]

This can even vary store by store, at least it did for me at two Florida Walgreens locations that are about two miles apart from each other. I bought some socks that were $4 or 3 for $10 and at the first store they rang up $3.34, $3.33, $3.33 and at the second they rang up $4, $4, $2.

[sinandsilence]

Lol, I work at a convenience store and if I ring up 3 items that are 3 for a dollar it will actually change each time I hit the subtotal button. It's absurd. The final price is always the same but it literally will be like .33, .33, .34 then if you go back and hit subtotal again it will be like .42, .42, .16. And anywhere in between.