Either we get lousy dollar values OR we don't get certain choice coupons at all...usually its the "not at all" option that we suffer through.
It really chaps my hide since we also don't have ANY major grocery retailers either, beyond our "smaller, not as good deals" regional ones.....and they don't take internet printed coupons at all, adding insult to the injury.
I guess it's just as well the advertisers/manufacturers don't supply us with the good coupons.....if we did get the good coupons, we wouldn't have anywhere to use them, where we could maximize our savings with them.
Sometimes it sucks to be us and live here.....
Anyway, I am noticing something even more disturbing lately with the coupon inserts here.
Hubs and I bought a total of 5 newspapers on Sunday.
Our "metro" area has 2 major publications(I'll call them #1 and #2), plus the town south of us has one publication as well(we'll refer to it as #3).
We bought paper #1 at the local convenience store/gas station.
I bought paper #2 & #3 at Rite-Aid.
We bought 2 more of paper #2 at the Dollar Store.
Now there were 3 different coupon inserts available this past Sunday.....a Smart Source, a Red Plum and a P& G.
Here is what I found in paper #1......
Just the Smart Source insert.
Here is what came in paper #2....
All 3 inserts.
Here is what came in paper #3.....
Just the P& G insert.
Rite-Aid-where I bought paper #2 & #3 had stacks of paper #1 also. I checked 3 different papers randomly pulling them from the stack(not just from the top)of the #1s. All of the #1s I checked ONLY had the Smart Source insert!
The Dollar Store carries paper #2.....the 2 I bought had these inserts....
All 3 that were release.
This seems to be a new development. These 3 different papers have always carried ALL the available inserts for the week in the past. This week only 1 of the publications carried the full complement of inserts.
I've heard of certain areas losing the Valassiss(RedPlum)inserts but papers in the same town/area losing different inserts from each other?
Is anybody else seeing loopy stuff like this going on in their area?
Or am I just paranoid OCDing here?!lol
Sluggy loosing her grip
