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square peg
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 Posted - Oct 25 2009 : 08:57:52 AM
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| Our safeway doesn't give the key card either (we are in WA). I hate that! And we have moved a lot so I can never remember which phone number I used when I signed up for it. Half the time, if I have forgotten the card, the cashier will just make up a phone number or use their own to get me the discounts |
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Fluffy
Advanced Member
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Posted - Oct 25 2009 : 1:45:00 PM
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Just about every grocery store here with th exceptions of Aldi, Whole Foods, and Trader Joe's, have "club" cards and you can't get the sales price without one, so I have a keyring full of the #$%^!! things. The same is true in Indianapolis where I'm traveling, although so far I've only been to one of the two chain groceries, Marsh. I suspect Kroger probably has them, too.
This is one of my weekends at home, so I stopped at the Acme on my way home from church and discovered that instead of a lot of special sales, they had posted a number of prices that were permanently reduced. How refreshing! |
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camlan
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - Oct 25 2009 : 1:53:17 PM
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Originally posted by greg44
I do a lot of the grocery shopping in our house, dw and I both think it is the job from heck. I HATE stores that advertise multiples. I just want to go grocery shopping, I don't want to have to "wonder" if a price is good or not. I don't want to have to bring a calculator and even have to do simple math in my head. Just give me the price $#&*@!
I shop a lot a WINCO - which tends to have the cheapest prices around - but they never put a "was" price next to their sale price. So is this $ 5 cents off or 50 cents off? I want to know just how much I am saving...
Albertsons is big on the 10 for 10 sales. Give me a break. I don't want to wonder if I got 9 or 11 items... Stores like this make it to hard to shop. And besides their fish market makes their whole store stink.
I so totally agree with the "job from heck." When math challenged to begin with, grocery shopping becomes stressful as you stand there, trying to figure out which one really is cheaper. When every penny counts, you have to do the math, but when they don't even use the same units for the unit pricing, it gets ridiculous, i.e. gallons for one can of tomatoes, ounces for another of the same size. Yes, you can do the math and figure it out, but it seems designed to keep you from easily knowing just how much you are really spending. |
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lhamo
Moderator
China
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Posted - Oct 25 2009 : 4:45:16 PM
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Originally posted by camlan
it seems designed to keep you from easily knowing just how much you are really spending.
DING DING DING -- we have a winner to the "Mysteries of Grocery Pricing" game!
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"What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility -- a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character than giving our all to a difficult task. This is the price and the promise of citizenship." (Barack Obama, January 20, 2009) |
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Pink Shakira
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - Oct 25 2009 : 5:31:50 PM
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I like the regrigerator biscuits too. And the refrigerator french bread. We don't eat it that often and with it in the fridge we don't have to plan ahead.
As for the "loyalty" card, I got mine by promising to mail in the form and never did. So they're collecting a lot of info about an anonymous person.
And speaking of loyalty cards, is it safeway everywhere, or just here in CA, that only gives the full size card and not a keyring sized card? I don't like carrying a lot of cards in my wallet so half the time I never had it with me. Finally I cut out the barcode part of it, drilled a hole in it and put it on my key ring. The checkout clerks always look a bit baffled at first when I hand them my keys, but then admit that it was a great idea.
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Safeway's got my old address and my old work phone. I never carry the card with me. Just use my old work phone.
Only those with keychain cards get carried. We'll see about Smart and Final. They've got this giant card. Maybe I can cut it and add it to the others on the keychain. |
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Mary H
Associate Member
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Posted - Nov 03 2009 : 9:04:57 PM
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| Regarding: home made rolls you can keep in the fridge until you want to bake them. Look in any old Betty Crocker cookbook. Mine dates from the late 70's, don't know if the most recent ones have it. They have a recipe that has mashed potatoes in it. It's a yeast recipe called (in my book) Refrigerator Roll Dough. It's a yeast recipe, not biscuits. It can keep in the fridge all week. You can even make brown and serve rolls: shape and partially bake in a low oven just to firm them up and kill the yeast. Then freeze and and bake when wanted. Amy D talks about it in the Tightwad Gazette but doesn't give the recipe. She says it's in all pre 1986 editions. |
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Mhousework
Advanced Member
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Posted - Nov 03 2009 : 10:58:13 PM
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Originally posted by Mary H
Regarding: home made rolls you can keep in the fridge until you want to bake them. Look in any old Betty Crocker cookbook. Mine dates from the late 70's, don't know if the most recent ones have it. They have a recipe that has mashed potatoes in it. It's a yeast recipe called (in my book) Refrigerator Roll Dough. It's a yeast recipe, not biscuits. It can keep in the fridge all week. You can even make brown and serve rolls: shape and partially bake in a low oven just to firm them up and kill the yeast. Then freeze and and bake when wanted. Amy D talks about it in the Tightwad Gazette but doesn't give the recipe. She says it's in all pre 1986 editions.
Thanks Mary, I'll look for it. I have a recipe my family loves, it's spinach, browned hamburger and mozzarella baked in a casserole pan lined with refrigerated biscuits. I always wondered if I could make my own dough for it. I'll have to experiment as the refrigerated biscuits are expensive and have lots of ingredients I'd rather not serve my family. |
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Grocery Store getting rid of '3 for $5' type signs
