WALMART VS PUBLIX ON FROSTED MINI WHEATS

My husband and I headed over to Walmart today to buy dirt. Six bags of dirt to be exact. I went around the store looking for the booklet people have said they found at Walmart but could not find it. Don't waste your time going there looking for it. I did a pricecheck on the Frosted Mini Wheat Cereal. Walmart's price is $3.50. Publix is BOGO at $4.59. Using two $.75/1 coupon, you will pay $3.09 for two boxes this week at Publix and pay $5.50 for 2 boxes this week at Walmart. That is a savings of $2.41 and you haven't even used the $1.50 off fresh fruit wyb 2 boxes of cereal coupon! That is how you use it to your advantage over Walmart. I will probably buy at least 8 boxes of cereal this week. Maybe more!! Take advantage of the fruit coupon and BOGO this week!

HOW TO REDEEM YOUR LIVING SOCIAL VOUCHER

A few of you have called me with problems redeeming their Living Social “Enjoy The City” coupon books. The link appears to be working now.

Go to your Living Social account and click on vouchers at the top. You’ll then be able to print the voucher. NO need to print, just copy the voucher number

Then click here: http://www.enjoythecity.com/deals/livingsocial/jacksonville/
Fill out the mailing information and below you will see a place to enter your voucher number and submit!

KELLOGG'S $10 GAS CARD DEAL

Don't forget about the Kellogg's Gas Rewards Card Deal that is still on until 12/31/11. All you have to do is clip 10 UPC's on certain cereals, print out the downloadable form found HERE, mail them in to Kellogg's and wait for your $10 prepaid Master Card! I already have most of the UPC's already from cereal I have in my stockpile! Check you stock and head over to that website to see all the cereals included in the rebate. You may also have the cereals in stock also!

There is a limit of 5 gas cards per household

UPCOMING DEALS

Noxzema Medicated Shave Cream should be on sale for $1 (if our area gets that sale) Use the $.75/1 from the 7/17 SS and you will pay $.25!!

Also the 12 double roll of Cottonelle Toilet Paper is on sale for $6.49. Use the Publix coupon for $.75/1 in the Smart Savings Booklet and stack with the $.75/1 that will also be in the 7/17 SS. Not that bad of a deal if you need toilet paper! I am a Scott girl myself but I will buy anything I can get a good deal on!

NEW COUPON BOOKLET

While I was in Palm Coast yesterday visiting my daughter, I stopped in a Publix and found the Happy New School Year Booklet. The best coupon in there is $1.50 off Fruit wyb 2 boxes of cereal. The Frosted Mini Wheats is one of the cereals included on the coupon. That makes the BOGO sale this week such a sweet deal! I don't know the price of the cereal yet because I don't have my ad, but at $4 a box, using two $2.25 wyb 3 coupons would make it $12.00 less $4.50 for coupons. Then use three $1.50 off fruit wyb cereal coupon and get $4.50 off fruit! If you were buying fruit anyway, it's like paying $3.00 for 6 boxes of cereal!

This is the time of year to stock up on cereal. Right before school starts they will have lots of sales on cereal. Make sure to save your coupons from all the cereal companies because the printables will go fast. I missed out on the $5 off 5 coupon. Cereal usually has an expiration date of a year or so. Use this opportunity to stock up for the months to come!

UPDATE ON MATCHING WALMART COUPON POLICY

The more I thought about my daughter and her Walmart shopping experience, the more I knew our Walmart didn't do it that way. I know because I tried it a few times. Her store will price match the sale but use Walmarts price. For example, if cereal is BOGO at Publix for $3.99, and you have a $1/2 MQ, you pay $1.50 a box. At her Walmart the cereal may be priced at $2.50 a box. They ring it through as $1.25 (she always has the math done for them because sometimes the employees are not the brighest) and then use the same $1/2 MQ and you pay $.75 each. BIG DIFFERENCE!!

I called our store and they do it differently. They use the price on the Publix ad. So my question is "Why go to Walmart"? If they are going to use the Publix price, why would I go and drive around a crowded parking lot to find a space, get a cart that has the bump in the tire (so that everyone hears you coming in the store), deal with the crowds and employees just to get the same deal exactly as Publix? If you have to go to Walmart anyway for something it might not be a bad idea to have the ads in case you want to get one of the BOGO deals there.

The only case I can see this being a positive if it is something that we know is going to be a HOT item at Publix. For example, when we were able to get the All detergent for $2 or the many items that the shelf was empty from the good deal we get a raincheck at Publix. If it is something you really want that week go to Walmart and do the deal! Then you have the raincheck to do it again at Publix and can order more coupons from a coupon clipping site! I know sometimes I have gone back 3 times in a week only to find the shelves bare (think Shick Razors BOGO sale). That is when they were taking expired coupons so I knew I was OK with my raincheck. Now that option is no longer available so we might have to use Walmart as our alternative.

WORKING LINK FOR LIVING SOCIAL DEAL

Here is the LINK for the Living Social deal. Sorry, I never checked to make sure the link was working. It is still active and you can still order. I activiated mine today and should get my books in 2 to 4 weeks. For those of you who didn't hear about this, you will pay $20 and get $60 worth of $5 off $30 Winn Dixie Coupons to use at Publix!

Sorry about the confusion!