The lazy man’s way to save at the grocery store — E-coupons!

Friday, January 8th, 2010

I know a lot of people have yet to jump on the couponing bandwagon (even though it is easy with sites, such as Couponmom and saves a lot of money), but anyone can benefit from the new wonder — E-coupons.

Look at this haul from tonight, including two gallons of milk, two Coffeemates, four boxes of Cherrios, Olay lotion, potatoes, carrots, cheese slices, snacks, a frozen pizza and even a frozen dinner entree. $85 in groceries for … $29! That’s a $55 savings!

I used my standard strategies, which is to combine store specials, with store coupons, with manufacturer coupons (both newspaper and Internet). But I started adding in one more saving strategy — E-coupons tied directly to your store club card.

The best news is now the stores are adding E-coupons available on their web sites! So before the shop, I stopped by my store’s site (Vons.com), added its E-coupons onto my Club card, and then went on over to Shortcuts.com, Cellfire.com and P&G.com for Proctor and Gamble savings. The best part is I never needed to leave the store’s web site — the links were right there under “coupons.” Now this is no-brainer savings!

To use them is nothing. Slide your card at checkout, and the savings is automatically deducted (usually noted as “Manufacturer E coupon”). The store makes it easy to remember what you loaded, by offering a printable shopping list on its web site.

Just with e-coupons (which take nothing to load), I saved $6.05. Adding them with regular coupons and the rebate, and my total coupon savings was $32.61 — more than what I spent!

But when you combine E-coupons with and/or store specials, store coupons and paper and Internet coupons, you can net some dang good deals!

How about these steals tonight:

  • Coffeemate creamer - 49 cents a bottle ($1.50-E-coupon, $1.50 Internet coupon and $1.50 store coupon)
  • Olay lotion - Got paid $3 to buy it! ($2 E-coupon, $1 paper coupon, and rebate for purchase price before the coupons!)
  • Cherrios 14 oz (4) - 79 cents each (55 cents E-coupon, $2.55 Internet coupons, and $4 store special)
  • Bertolli dinner entree - $3.99 ($2 E-coupon, $1 paper one)

    You can see the secret for stupendous deals is to combine the coupons. That’s the best part with E-coupons — you can combine with Internet/newspaper and store coupons. Normally, you cannot stack deals like that, with the exception of store coupons with manufacturer ones. This really can make a good deal a fantastic one. Coffeemate for 49 cents! That’s normally $3.49 (and a staple in our house).

    But even if you don’t want to go to the trouble of cutting coupons, be sure and check out the E ones available at your store’s web site or those I listed above. The $6 in savings I got tonight from them more than paid for the two gallons of milk!



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