Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Shopping Trip 9-15 Wal-Mart

Today I went to Walmart to do the majority of our grocery shopping for this week.  For everything, I spent $43.70.  I figured it up and for everything without any coupons, or price-matching it would have been $97.23.  So I saved $53.53 or 55%.  What I bought:

Nectarines price matched with My Store for .69/lb.
Peaches price matched with My Store for .69/lb.
4 Kiwi for .25 ea.
Bananas price matched to County Market for .38/lb.
1 Bunch of Broccoli price matched to Aldi for .99
1 loaf whole wheat bread $2.50 -$1.00 coupon received by emailing the company. = $1.50
2 coffeemate stick packs $1.28 ea.  -$1.00 peelie coupons on packages (actually the coupons were for free stick packs but the register only took $1.00 off.)
2 large packages of Athenos Feta Cheese $4.28 ea. - B1G1 free coupon from HERE= $2.14 ea.
1 Tropicana orange juice price matched with Kroger for $2.50
1 Friskies cat treat price matched to $1.00 with Meijer - $1/1 coupon from HERE= free
2 New York Strip Steaks price matched to $3.97/lb. with Kroger = $5.00 total
5.5 lbs. of split chicken breast price matched to .97/lb. with Kroger= $5.34 total
(1) 40 oz. bag of Tyson Chicken breast strips price matched to Meijer for $4.99
2 large bottles of Coffeemate price matched to Meijer for $2.50 ea. - (2) .75/1 coupons from HERE =$1.75 ea.
1 tub of Dannon Natural Yogurt price matched to Kroger for $1.88 - $1/1 coupon from HERE (no longer available)= .88
2 lbs. of Land o Lakes butter price matched to Meijer for $2.50/lb.  - .50/2 coupon from HERE =$2.25 ea.
2 boxes of Ice cream cones price matched to IGA for $1.69 ea.  -(2) $1/1 coupons = .69 ea.
2 bags of Green Giant Frozen Veggies price matched to My Store for .79 ea. -$1/2 coupon from HERE = .29 ea.
2 bags of Pepperidge Farm cookies price matched to CVS for $1 ea.  - (2) $1/1 coupons from HERE = free

Want to learn more about Price Matching?  Check out this post
Learn more about how I email companies for coupons HERE.

6 comments:

  1. Today, I bought $50.04 worth of groceries for $31.26 at Wal-mart using your tips on price matching & several coupons with the links you posted. I was disappointed that they would not match Kroger for meat prices even though I had the sale ad in hand. Guess I will be buying those items at the "other" Wal-mart store. Thanks for the great tips. I look forward to your posts each day!

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  2. Sometimes it can be a little tricky ad-matching meat at Walmart. According to Wal-marts policy, if you do have the competitor ad with you, then you should have no problem ad-matching an item. Sometimes with Kroger however, I have found that their meat is listed differently than what is sold at Walmart. Such as: Kroger may have "semi-boneless" ribeye steak on sale and Walmart only sells the totally boneless varieties. In this case, the cashier could deny you the ad-match, though many would allow it since Walmart does not carry that type. Unfortunately, it is usually all up to your cashiers discretion. To be honest with you, their are certain cashiers that I absolutely will not check out with because they make ad matching so difficult. I have found that the cashiers that are the most ad-match friendly are young people, and men. For some reason some of the women who have worked at the store for 20-some years feel like it is their personal obligation to protect the store, and almost act like you are trying to steal from them personally!

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  3. It did take me just a little longer at the store to find the exact product I was looking for and I did have a few product that they just didnt carry. However, I almost saved a $1 a minute for the extra time it took so I feel it was well worth the effort.

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  4. I have never had big success at Walmart, but you did great.

    I would like to invite you to link up your savings at the Weekly Savings Linky @ Frugality Is Free , it’s a great place to connect with other frugalistas. You can win a free ad space too!

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  5. How do you do the price matching???

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  6. You can check out my post here for more information on ad-matching: http://livinghealthyonabudget.blogspot.com/2010/09/ad-matching-101.html
    Or you can click on the link at the bottom of my post above that says: Want to learn more about price matching? Price matching is just another term for ad-matching.

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