Safeway is a great store if you have one. The daily normal prices are higher than most grocery stores, but the sales that are offered every week (ad’s run from Wednesday to Tuesdays) you can save more money than other stores!
Safeway Club Card- First thing first, you need a Safeway card, you can request it at the customer service desk, normally located in the front of the store. It’s completely free. Be sure to associate the card with your phone number, I lost my card years ago and just enter my phone number at check out.
More on the Club Card: http://www.safeway.com/IFL/Grocery/Club-Card
Safeway Ad- Second go to the store and get the current Safeway ad, Sure you may have gotten one in your Sunday paper, but there are different deals and different “Super Coupons” in each. I grab at least three of the ads, because of the limit you can get on the “Super Coupons”
Safeway’s Coupon Policy-Print up Safeway’s policy and take it with you, this will help if there is ever an issue with your coupon.
E Coupons- You can load coupons onto your Safeway card from Safeway’s website. You can only use one e-coupon per one item. Remember that or you will misunderstand your discount.
Load coupons- http://www.safeway.com/IFL/Grocery/Offers-Landing-IMG
Store Coupons- “Super Coupons”- Every week in the Safeway ad you get store coupons, that Safeway calls “Super Coupons”. These coupons have a limit of how many you can buy at the “Super Coupon’s” Price. Safeway takes one Manufactures coupon and one Super coupon per item. If you have a Super coupon with a limit of two, and you buy two items, you can use two manufactures coupon. You do not need two of the “Super Coupons”. You can also only use one of a like “Super Coupon” per transaction. So say you have a Super coupon for Cascade making it $3.99 and you have a limit of two. You cannot use two of the super coupons to get a limit of four cascades. You must do another transaction to use the other like Super coupons in order to get 4 at the super coupon price.
Coupons Booklets- Sometimes Safeway will set out in random parts of the store coupon book. These are free and have both Safeway and Manufactures coupons in them.
Catalina’s- these print up at the register to be used on your next transaction. These can be anywhere from a store coupon to a coupon with $ off your next order.
Printed Coupons-Safeway does accept printed coupons; however they will not accept a printed coupon for a free product. Yes they take BOGO Free printed coupons, but not just free. At Safeway you have to buy something in order to get anything free.
Other Store Coupons- Safeway does take other store coupons; please review #6 on the policy. I was confused when I first read this and after talking to the management they said yes they do, but it has to be for the exact same item. This means you can use your Giant, Target, and other store coupons at Safeway. If you have questions simply ask the management and show them the policy.
Buy One Get one Free- Safeway takes both manufactures and printed coupons for BOGO, however, you cannot use two BOGO free’s to get both products free. You also cannot use a BOGO free coupon on a BOGO sale. What you can do is a coupon on the one you buy. Say cereal is BOGO free; you can use a coupon on the item you buy.
Rain checks- When Safeway is out of an item at a sales price you can go to the customer service desk and get a rain check for that item at that price. They expire within 90 days. And you cannot get a rain check on your manufactures coupon.
Zero is as low as you can go: The coupon policy says “our customer cannot net a cash credit or payout from a coupon purchase”. So what that means is after coupons, zero is as low as you can go, you will not be given cash back or a credit. Say you use coupons and your total is negative $1, the price will be adjusted to zero.
Double a coupon- My Safeway doubles all coupons (unless it says not to double on it) up to 99 cents. So if I have a 99 Cents off coupon (I have yet to ever see one of those) it would double to $1.98. My favorite coupons are the ones for $.75 off one product; this is the highest coupon in the cent range I have ever seen. This is regional; some Safeway’s only double up to 50 cents. You should check with your Safeway Customer Service for the policy on doubling at that store. There are even some places that offer no doubling or doubling on certain days, so you should check before you shop.
10 for $10- At my Safeway when there is a 10 for $10 sale, you do not have to buy ten items, they honor it at $1 each. You should check with you Safeway to see if they honor this also.
How to ad match- (Week of July 20-July 26)
This week there are a lot of “Super Coupons” in the ad. You can pick one up at the store. There are also a lot of printable coupons that you can match with the ad to really make the items cheap.
(Again these are examples; your Safeway may differ in price, coupons and doubling. Prices are also pretax amounts)
Super Coupons we will use with Printable coupons-
Breyers Ice Cream is on Sale with the Super coupon at $2.49 a piece. You can print a coupon (these are at coupons.com) for $.75 off one. My Safeway doubles all coupons up to 99 cents. (Math $2.49 minus coupon of $.75 (doubled is $1.50) equals $.99 each!) You have a limit of ten with the super coupon.
Kleenex tissue is on Sale with the Super coupon for $.99. You can print a coupon for $.60 off three. The Super Coupon limits you to two at the $.99 price and with your club card you can get a third at $.1.99. (Math .99x2+1.99=$3.97 minus $.60 coupon (doubles to $1.20) =$2.77! Which is about $.92 each)
Cocoa Puffs Brownie Crunch is on sale for $1.79 with the Super coupon. You can print a coupon for $.75 off one, or use the one in last week’s paper (Sunday July 17) for $.75 off one. (Math $1.79 minus $.75 coupon (doubles to $1.50) equals $.29 a box!)
So say this is all we buy, all these items at the limit. At home you can print coupons 2 per computer. I have 4, so I will get 8 of every coupon.
How to check out- (IMPORANTANT)
First have them scan all the items, second enter your phone number attached to your Safeway card (or have them scan the card if you have it.) Next give them the Safeway Super Coupons, AFTER those are scanned hand over your manufactures coupons. If you don’t do it in this order your coupons will be taking off the full price and not the Club price or Super coupon price!
(so this is hypothetical because you can only use 4 like coupons for the cereal and ice cream (because it states so on the coupon), you would have to run two transactions to get all 8 boxes and all 8 ice creams and have two super coupons, one for each transactions, but we are doing it this way to show the full cost.)
Buy 8 Breyers Ices cream- Super Coupon $2.49/2, Use 8 Printed coupons for $.75/1 (which doubles at my store) Total OOPS (out of pocket Spending)= $7.92
Buy 3 Kleenex- Use Super Coupon for $.99/1, Club Card price for $1.99, use 1 printed coupon for $.60/1 (which doubles) Total OOPS=$2.77
Buy 8 boxes of Cocoa Puffs Brownie Crunch, Use super coupon for $1.79/1, use 8 printed or manufactures coupons for $.75/1 (which Doubles) Total OOPS=$2.32
Total OOPS for all: $13.02
Now let’s see how that compares to the retail price:
Total Retail:
Breyers Ice Cream- Normal Price- $3.69x 8=$29.52
Kleenex- Normal Price-$2.19x3=$6.57
Cocoa Puffs Normal Price-$3.89x8=$31.12
Total for all = $67.21
This means you would save =$54.20!
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