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Save a little bit of cash (Just being a smart shopper)
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Published: Nov 21, 2005 1:28 a.m.
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Because most of you are younger and don’t have a place of your own or are independent this egg may not be an interesting article for you. However, to the people who are out on their own and trying to stretch their money a little further (the smart consumers) this may be beneficial piece.

Now... for a little while this is gonna seem like a waste of time. But like all methods of savings prove... over time when things accumulate it’s sweet payoff. Kinda like throwing all your change in a jar for awhile. Alot of grocery stores have "special" incentives clubs (Giant Eagle Advantage Card/Shop N Save Rewards Program" where you get discounts in exchange for your informally sworn exclusive shopping experience rights. Like all business entities... the bigger it gets the more help they need. The more help they need the more desperate they get for help. I mean... what are the odds of Emeril just up and quitting his cooking show to go get a 5.15 an hour job at Giant Eagle Deli section? All employees of these stores (No offense for the remainder of this statement intended) are easy to manipulate. You want a drink at McDonalds jsut go in and ask for one..."I just came through drive thru and you forgot my large coke." or "We ordered a large and you gave me a smaller one" or "Can I have a big cup for ice please". Go to Giant Eagle and find a small bag of candy or some item you want and then take it to the customer service desk and say that you were here yesterday and left (Insert Item Here) in the cart when you left and say you left the receipt in the cart too. Most of them will let you take the item. But anyways... those ideas aren’t what this egg is about... I was just overaccentuating how easily this little scam can be overlooked. Before you go grocery shopping at one of the stores with the incentive programs... look in the coupon section of the newspaper. Find a insert for that particular store. Scan the coupons for the highest dollar amount able to be saved ($2.00 off). Clip maybe like 2 or 3 of those out. For obvious reasons soon to be disclosed... Buy one Get one Free will not be applicable to your situation. Go buy your groceries. Let’s say you get $80.00 worth. $80.00 worth of whatever the hell you usually buy. Go to the register and have them scan your card... and start loading your groceries onto the belt. When they tell you your total grab those $2.00 off coupons (You don’t really buy the item the coupon is valid for... like let’s say $2.00 off a plunger and another $2.00 for a couple cans of soup) and hand them to the cashier. Sometimes the coupon will over ride the register and the fact that you didn’t actually buy this particular item, sometimes the cashier will need to manually over ride it if the register won’t accept it, and sometimes a manager will have to be called to put in their "Security Code". Let’s face it... after bagging $80.00 worth of groceries... neither the cashier nor the bagger remembers or gives a fuck what you bought. They work for minimum wage usually and to them you are just a regular customer. They don’t want you there any longer than you absolutely have to be. 99.9% of the time they will not check the receipt or dig through the bags to find out if the item was purchased. Neither will the manager. A good idea would be to find the youngest looking one. You might also want to put big things like 50 pound dog food bags and cases of pop on the bottom of your cart. At most places... as mentioned before... nobody really notices anything. There’s alot going on at a supermarket. So just don’t mention that you have the expensive shit at the bottom of the cart. At most supermarkets... the sensors only pick up the stuff from their electronic section and cigarette cartons. It also can be even more helpful to go the grocery store without clipping any coupons and walking the aisles to spot the machines that dispense the coupons right where the physical product is. That means its on sale and they’ve been dealing with the coupon alot lately. And because of its familiarity, psychologically the cashier is most likely to feel obligated to personally remedy this in house embarassment quickly and just assume that you got the product that matched the coupon. The flaw is... you can only do this a little bit at a time do it with decent amount coupons. Because they might get suspicious if they’re manually inserting every coupon on the register because it keeps getting rejected. Also like I said it works best when you’re grocery shopping and are purchasing alot of items. Make a personal commitment to match every single cent that you save on your grocery bill. By doing this (If you save 6.00 on your grocery bill then you put 6.00 in a jar) you will save enough money to treat yourself and a few others to a good time after awhile.

I did this today at Giant Eagle and I figured you might like it. 		 
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soloboy
Nov 21, 2005 2:32 am -
paragraphs!!! were u away that day in school?


Trent-6441
Nov 21, 2005 3:00 am -
I hated school. I still hate paragraphs. All joking aside... I thought it’d be kind of like a filter so that the egg would be truly exclusive for those who have an interest in saving money. The message would get to those who deserve it and not to those who are too lazy to read or too ignorant of the facts to benefit. I don’t really put too much thought into "Oh well someone is gonna give me 0 stars" because they obviously didn’t get the message.
But I’ll be the one getting the better deal on my grocery bill. Take it or leave it. By the way... thanks for giving me 0 stars. If I knew you I’d make you a dog shit candle for christmas.


H-Dogg
Nov 21, 2005 7:15 am -
Those self-service scanners at Giant Evil are a shoplifter’s dream come true. Though I’m opposed to using them because it’s working there part time for free, but think of it. Get a notebook, tear out some pages, stuff in some greeting cards, and scan and bag the notebook. Scan your coupons, and insert old, expired, or illegible coupons. Of course you can’t use your Giant Evil Surveillance Card, or your shenanigans can be traced back to you.
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Alot of grocery stores have "special" incentives clubs (Giant Eagle Advantage Card/Shop N Save Rewards Program" where you get discounts in exchange for your informally sworn exclusive shopping experience rights.

People have different "loyalty" (surveillance) cards for every store... what kind of loyalty is that?


MatchMe
Nov 21, 2005 8:17 am -
Thats a great idea im goin to have to try that
Its easy to manipulate most people and get what ever you want if you just ask. theres alot of socially uncertain people out there just find one and start recieving.


fitynickels
Apr 11, 2007 2:17 pm -
i fuckin hate people like this
i work at a supermarket and i get people who give me cupons for shit they didnt even buy and i know they didnt because the register computer tells you that there is no match
just pay for ur shit like everyone else does
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