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My grocery store is Stop & Shop. Every once in a while, depending on what you buy, you get a coupon for x amount off your next order. I've had a coupon like this for $1 and, well, I learned I can recycle it!
It's even expired and it still works. I scan it over and over until it doesn't let me scan anymore. Basically, it attributes the dollar to one of the items you've bought, so if you have 10 items, it won't take more than $10 off.
Stop & Shop has just implemented a new scan-as-you-go feature. When you go into the store, you scan your card and a price-scanner gun is released. As you shop, you scan and bag the items. It keeps track of your order, so you know how much you're spending, makes it easy to remove items from your order if you wish to put something back, and gives you extra savings on certain items you normally buy that you wouldn't get if you shopped the traditional way.
When you get to the checkout, everything is already bagged. You can use an actual cashier or the self check-out aisles (I much prefer the latter.) You scan your price gun, then your card, your order is retrieved and then you scan your coupons, if any, and pay.
I stopped in the store on Friday for a few things: four bottles of Life Water, a package of Perdue short cuts and a bottle of hazelnut coffee creamer.
The Life water is usually $1.39, but was on sale for $1. The chicken is normally $5.99, but was on sale for $3.99, and the cream is usually $3.99, but I got $1 off for using the scanner gun.
The actual total of these items, if I had not used my card, would have been $15.54. Because I used my card, the total went down to $11.98. Because I used the self-scan gun, I got yet another dollar off, for $10.98. I then scanned my $1 coupon 6 times, bringing me down to $4.98 and THEN I had yet another $1 off coupon, but this is a new kind that just comes off the order without attaching itself to an item so the grand total was $3.98.
The way I see it, I bought the creamer and got the rest for free.
It's even expired and it still works. I scan it over and over until it doesn't let me scan anymore. Basically, it attributes the dollar to one of the items you've bought, so if you have 10 items, it won't take more than $10 off.
Stop & Shop has just implemented a new scan-as-you-go feature. When you go into the store, you scan your card and a price-scanner gun is released. As you shop, you scan and bag the items. It keeps track of your order, so you know how much you're spending, makes it easy to remove items from your order if you wish to put something back, and gives you extra savings on certain items you normally buy that you wouldn't get if you shopped the traditional way.
When you get to the checkout, everything is already bagged. You can use an actual cashier or the self check-out aisles (I much prefer the latter.) You scan your price gun, then your card, your order is retrieved and then you scan your coupons, if any, and pay.
I stopped in the store on Friday for a few things: four bottles of Life Water, a package of Perdue short cuts and a bottle of hazelnut coffee creamer.
The Life water is usually $1.39, but was on sale for $1. The chicken is normally $5.99, but was on sale for $3.99, and the cream is usually $3.99, but I got $1 off for using the scanner gun.
The actual total of these items, if I had not used my card, would have been $15.54. Because I used my card, the total went down to $11.98. Because I used the self-scan gun, I got yet another dollar off, for $10.98. I then scanned my $1 coupon 6 times, bringing me down to $4.98 and THEN I had yet another $1 off coupon, but this is a new kind that just comes off the order without attaching itself to an item so the grand total was $3.98.
The way I see it, I bought the creamer and got the rest for free.
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