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When Specials Are Not on Shelves
I have just been to Coles to get passata for $1 each (700ml)and Nichols fresh chickens for $5.20/Kg - both of these items had sold out by first day of sale, 5 o'clock - instead of walking away annoyed that I wasted my time - I asked at the service desk, got a raincheck for 10 x passata jars (which can be used anytime over the next 12 months) - and they price matched any chicken for the special price, so I picked the organic one (most expensive) and got four chooks for $5.20 Kg - normally $7.20 a kg. I am wrapped by the service and the savings - paid with my ING debit card which is currently giving back 5% cash to your account with every paywave transaction under $100 - so I am happy today! Contributed by Sharon Sawers, 30th January 2013
Shopping with Coles Raincheck Vouchers
Approximate $ Savings: At least $2 plus
The other discounts I notice that the big supermarkets in my town regularly offer products for a third or even half discount off their regular price. I think the industry calls these their 'loss leaders' as they hope you'll stay there and buy more products that don't produce a loss for them. I don't. I only buy large quantities of the half price stuff and plan our meals etc from these, that is, except for the minimum of urgent necessities! I do this as I've noticed that the same items will again be heavily discounted thirty to fifty percent the next time I need them. This means shopping for the products I want at different supermarket chains but the savings are significant. To further sweeten the savings, the Coles supermarket will give a "we're sorry voucher" for the sold out discount items at the discount price plus a further $2.00 off the total spend when the voucher is used. Hence I go to Coles on Wednesday afternoons (the last day before the new catalogue period that starts on Thursdays) and obtain a voucher for any of the sold out items that I wanted. The voucher is good for 30 days, meaning I can buy the product at the discount rate when I can afford it, even though the discount period has ended. They will even give me a replacement voucher when they don't have sufficient stock at the time to supply the quantity that was asked for on the original voucher and extend the validity period of the voucher as well. I'm not a part of Coles or anything - this is not a plug for them necessarily. I'm just a lower income consumer trying to use every tool I can to make ends meet and feed my family. I don't know if Coles does this in any of their other stores around Australia. Hope someone can benefit from this.
Contributed by Garry Evans, 17th July 2010
The other discounts I notice that the big supermarkets in my town regularly offer products for a third or even half discount off their regular price. I think the industry calls these their 'loss leaders' as they hope you'll stay there and buy more products that don't produce a loss for them. I don't. I only buy large quantities of the half price stuff and plan our meals etc from these, that is, except for the minimum of urgent necessities! I do this as I've noticed that the same items will again be heavily discounted thirty to fifty percent the next time I need them. This means shopping for the products I want at different supermarket chains but the savings are significant. To further sweeten the savings, the Coles supermarket will give a "we're sorry voucher" for the sold out discount items at the discount price plus a further $2.00 off the total spend when the voucher is used. Hence I go to Coles on Wednesday afternoons (the last day before the new catalogue period that starts on Thursdays) and obtain a voucher for any of the sold out items that I wanted. The voucher is good for 30 days, meaning I can buy the product at the discount rate when I can afford it, even though the discount period has ended. They will even give me a replacement voucher when they don't have sufficient stock at the time to supply the quantity that was asked for on the original voucher and extend the validity period of the voucher as well. I'm not a part of Coles or anything - this is not a plug for them necessarily. I'm just a lower income consumer trying to use every tool I can to make ends meet and feed my family. I don't know if Coles does this in any of their other stores around Australia. Hope someone can benefit from this.
Contributed by Garry Evans, 17th July 2010
Wish Cards Control Grocery Spending
I buy Woolworths wish cards in either $100-00 or $200-00 denomination to the value of $400-00 at the beginning of the month for my monthly groceries purchased at Woolworths. This way I only spend the amount on groceries what I have to use on the wish cards to control my grocery spending for the month.
Contributed by Jacqui Majoor, 12th January 2011
Contributed by Jacqui Majoor, 12th January 2011