/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.6439498]

Is coupon clipping worth it?

[Anonymous No.6439503]

>>6439498

it's hard to tell, but I'm getting the feeling that this coupon lacks legitimacy, are you sure you really want to get raped in jail over three dollars worth of ill gotten hotpockets?

[Anonymous No.6439511]

>>6439498

No, because coupons are only for brand-name processed foods, and you should be buying those at all.

Pic related is what you should be buying. Notice there are no brand names and no boxes, and thus no coupons.

[Anonymous No.6439522]

>>6439511
>he doesn't clip coupons for fresh produce from the Shopper

[Anonymous No.6439591]

>>6439498

Yes, if done correctly, but instead of clipping try digital coupons. I shop at Kroger's and can go to their website to add coupons to my Kroger card. I usually only buy sale items or Manager reduced items (I got a $70 turducken for $10). Along with only using coupons on sale items, I try to only use them on items I was going to buy. There is no point in saving a quarter on a $3 box of snack cakes I wouldn't have bought anyway, you didn't save money, you lost money. Most of the time with the digital coupons, I don't remember what I have, so I'm shopping for what I want/need and when a coupon works, I don't usually know until I've paid.

Ignore >>6439511
I get coupons for fresh food and store brand all the time, not just name-brand and processed foods. I don't use most of them, because I don't want the all-natural chicken at a dollar off because it's still three dollars more than store brand. I had three coupons for dole salad kits the other day, each a dollar off the price. They were marked down to $0.99 and the coupons had to be manually typed in as the amount off was more than the item. They literally paid me a penny each for the salad kits.

[Anonymous No.6439601]

remember reading all those /b/ threads back in the day with fake/duplicated coupons and thinking about using them but being too lazy and not even bothering

[Anonymous No.6439619]

My mom used to clip coupons like a madwoman but it was only for stuff like laundry detergent, deodorant, toothpaste, soap, etc. She'd give us a handful of coupons and money and make us stand in line because there was a limit on items per person. We were a big family.

[Anonymous No.6439622]

>>6439498
Shit of course it's worth it. Doesn't /ck/ still care about being frugal?

[Anonymous No.6439624]

>>6439601
I wonder if those ever worked.

[Anonymous No.6439651]

>>6439624
I think they only worked if you had a lazy employee that didn't want to bother calling a manager over.

[Anonymous No.6439654]

>>6439651
When I worked in that industry I never accepted coupons. Fuck 'em.

[Anonymous No.6439655]

>>6439651
As a cashier at a grocery store, I remember seeing a notice about fake coupons that resembled the ones from the day

I'm too much of a bitch to have had a go at that though

[Anonymous No.6439671]

>>6439651

Used to use fake coupons for $10 off 30-packs of Natural Light in college. Worked for about 4 months til the big chains caught on

[Anonymous No.6439700]

>>6439511
>mfw my local supermarket gives out dollar off coupons on produce purchases over $5