You might be right, I’ll check the on-line digital offerings, there might be something I can use.
Some stores up here keep the flyers at the front door, but don’t distribute them as much these days.
I’m enrolled in loyalty programmes for 4 different grocery stores. I can log in to my accounts to see what’s on special on my laptop, as well as the phone app. I also could get some emails. I unsubscribe to most emails from businesses these days.
The loyalty points add up quickly at my favourite butcher shop.
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In addition to @Phoenikia 's suggestions above, a lot of our grocery stores where I live seem to have done away with printed flyers however they post the electronic versions on their websites. One of the stores has in-store sales that aren’t advertised. The good thing is that I’ve gotten some really good deals but on the downside, you don’t see them unless you are in the store.
Like @Phoenikia I have some loyalty cards and I can log onto my account to view my balance and see my offers. I also have a Flipp app on my phone and it posts flyers for the upcoming week. We also have apps like Too Good to Go, Odd Bunch and Flash Food that have discounts on food that’s near the expiry date or imperfect.
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I like that Sobeys sometimes hands out gift cards for $10 or $20, if you spend a certain amount, usually over $200.
The produce clearance rack at Farm Boy in London is excellent. I have a feeling it gets picked over very quickly in downtown Toronto.
Some people line up before the store opens, to sweep up the reduced meat and produce as soon as the doors open, at my local indie store in London, Remark Market.
I was disappointed with Too Good to Go in Toronto
[TORONTO] Too Good To Go App
I was very excited at first. A few places were selling things that were stale and well past their best before dates. I had another business change the pickup times, and I couldn’t get there soon enough. I missed a few pickups because I was late due to traffic or poor planning, and they locked the door. The business could have left the food on a bench outside the door, imo. There was an Italian restaurant near me using Too Good Too Go, who would package up their leftovers around 10 pm. I tried to get that one a dozen times, but someone must have been waiting because that one was always gone as soon as it appeared.
My local indie coffee shop, Coco’s, decided not to use Too Good To Go. They have their day old pastries near the cash for $1 each, when the fresh pastries sell for $4-$7.
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My local grocery store flyer is advertising cabbage for $0.19 per pound this week. so my want to start lookig around.
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St Paddy’s Season!
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Yes, this week it was 99 Cents a pound (at my local grocery store) – I figure I’ll wait for it to get a little lower.
Sunshine is looking forward to a new and improved bread bowl for my next cabbage soup attempt.
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Cabbage went on sale for 49 cents/pound… YEA!! I picked up a head, yesterday. Looking forward to making a cabbage/veggie & chicken soup.
The only other item on sale that I can use was potatoes, so I’ll be digging the freezer next week and checking for clearance items. I did get 4 nice pork chops on clearance for $3 and froze them. They’ll make two meals at some point in the future.
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Today at the grocery store, I was shocked to see a huge pallet of cabbage, with a sign that said it was on sale for 12 CENTS a pound.
Thinking of this thread, and in spite of the fact that my mother won’t eat cabbage, I picked out the smallest head in the huge pile, and went to check out.
It rang up for FAR more than that, so I asked the attendant to remove it. I didn’t have a plan for it, anyway, so I didn’t feel like fighting for it. Lately I’ve noticed a trend of things being deeply discounted only if you have a coupon in the store’s app, and I won’t download the app. But the fine print saying "coupon in the app’ is in a tiny font, and it irks me how deceptive the whole thing is.
Anyway, long story short, twelve cents a pound cabbage was, in fact, too good to be true.
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Yes, some stores are putting stipulations in tiny print in the digital coupon. I add my digital coupons from my computer screen where I can enlarge them.
I forgot what the item was, but it was a great price – when I enlarged the digital coupon it said “Must by four to get this price” There was no way I was buying four.
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(I meant tiny print/no print in the sign’s storage, not in the app. Even worse!)
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Only Potatoes and Chicken Breasts are on sale this week. I have too many potatoes, so I’ll pass on them.
I will pick up a few chicken breasts – I’m thinking about maybe making some chicken & vegetable fritters??
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If you can spare the egg, parmesan pain perdu with asparagus is a nice main dish (DH pefers ketchup to tomato jam).
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Yesterday in Safeway, I saw packages of corned beef and heads of green cabbage in the cold case. I didn’t see the price for the corned beef, but the cabbage price was 49 cents/head. Day after deal?
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Yes, I picked up a head of cabbage – that is tonight’s dinner (Cabbage, Veggie & Chicken soup in a bread bowl).
I was quite happy to get it for 49 cents/pound. YEA!!
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“Even a blind squirrel finds a nut”… I found this pound of sausage for $1.54 on clearance. I’ll make a sausage meatloaf (tonight) which will yield one dinner (for the two of us) and two lunches for Sunshine. YEA!!
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What are the things you choose to stock up on when you see it’s on sale?
These are the things I find myself buying multiples of when they’re on sale:
Frozen duck legs
Carbone or Rao’s sauce
Ben and Jerry’s or Haagen Daz when they drop to $4.99 from around $7
Quaker Minute Oats
Fibre One cereal
Canned evaporated milk
Imported fancier pasta
Tate’s Cookies
Prime Rib
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I tend to stock up on any “protein” that is NOT chicken (fish, hamburger, pork roasts & chops, ham, steaks, turkey, liver, sausage, chorizo, etc.). It seems boneless/skinless chicken breasts go on sale every other week.
There was this one grocery store that had these bone-in pork “chunks” for a great price. I tried them and you got two bites of meat and the rest was bone. I stopped buying them.
Every once in a while I’ll see London Broil on clearance, so I’ll grab (and freeze) it, when that happens. I’ll also grab chicken livers when I see them on clearance. Sunshine likes breaded chicken livers.
Edited to add: Yes – ice cream (not for me), but Sunshine really likes the “Blue Bell” brand and one flavor of Safeway’s (Signature brand) ice cream (Extreme Moose Tracks)
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For us, “stocking up” is getting 2 or at most 4. There’s a limit to storage space and only 2 of us to eat.
Salmon or Cod - these go in the freezer
Bag “fancy” salad (Sunflower Crisp) when BOGO
Our favorite snack chips / crackers - Sunchips, Lays Poppables, bite sized tortilla chips, Keebler Club crackers, Triscuits
Costco nuts
Husband’s breakfast cereals - these I do get 4 at a time of each variety when on sale.
I remember reading a fun “investment” article about the ROI on canned tuna “futures” – when bought on sale and consumed within 1 - 2 years the return is better than most stocks or mutual funds. Just in really small dollar amounts. Grin.
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Definitely Breakfast cereals! Mr Autumm’s favorites were on sale about 6 weeks ago and there is one box of mini-wheats left. I bought a dozen boxes!
At least they are good about my first rule of grocery shopping: We never buy cereal that isn’t on sale
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