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Or someone who wants to save a third off their shopping bill.

I don't get it.

This place is full of threads where people complain about the cost of cheese and chicken, car insurance, mailing costs, renewing passports and god knows what else - even to the extent of going across the border to save a few dollars.

Yet come the chance of cutting a couple of hundred bucks off the monthly grocery bill (freeing extra cash for cheese and chicken), they chuck it away.

:confused:

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I've now managed to whittle my flyers down to about three or four key ones and I now spend my Thursday night scanning through to see what stuff I usually buy is on special. As someone else said, you pretty much get the same groceries every week and after doing this for a while I know which products I buy often go on sale and reasonably frequently so I get a couple extra e.g. Nappies, baby formula, etc for the supply cupboard, when they are cheaper. A five buck saving on a tin of formula is quite significant when they go through one and half tins a week!

It's surprising the difference in price between some supermarkets for some products.

Flyerland.ca is quite a good site that links to a lot of the flyers.

Also, our local Safeway and Sobeys have a customer appreciation night the first Tuesday of the month where they give you 10% off your shopping bill, which isn't to be sniffed at.

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I look online for codes. They are so easy to find. One of my fave stores over here is Bath and Body Works and they always have flyers.

Old Navy always have ones and you can share them too. One of my girlfriends here is the Coupon Queen. I went shopping with her to Old Navy and she handed her phone to me so they could scan the coupon. I got 20% off the sale price. Then I handed the phone back to her and she used it. We were blatant and Old Navy didn't even bat an eyelid.

I was in there a couple of days ago and they had the fleeces for kids for $4.57 (they are nice too) and I also used a 20% off voucher. Practically giving them away they are! :)

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There is a tv program called "Extreme Coupon-ing" which shows obsessive coupon-ers in the US that can somehow save 80-90-99% on their shopping bill. They can reduce a bill of $800 to say $12. I know it sounds impossible (someone told me this and I had to see the program to believe it) but somehow they manage to combine discounts and get shopping for free.

They usually have a stockpile of $5-10,000 of multiple goods (eg. 50 bottles of salad dressing) in their basement, probably half of which they won't use, and run their lives around the coupon-ing.

No idea how it works.

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Well, its not possible to do it in Canada (surprise!) :sneaky:

http://www.moneysavingmomcanada.com/...ssible-in.html

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We tend to get flyers fairly irregularly (rural area) but you seem to be able to check most stores online. My wife tends to peruse them more than me but I know food basics has one. Sobeys seem to have theirs on the homepage of the site. Metro has one too.

Pretty sure they all do to be honest!

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Good link! Even with the different retail / supply chain in the US, it still amazes me that this kind of discounting can happen.

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I'm with you Bristol, in your earlier post you summed my actions up to a T, I only bother with the Atlantic SS and the Sobeys flyers but I do buy extra if they have something on a special, and it does save me considerably.

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I wondered what all the fuss was about the stack of flyers every Thursday when I first arrived.....I'm diving in too now

We usually use Walmart which ad matches so look at all the usual suspects flyers; Superstore, Shoppers Drugmart, Food Basics, Sobeys etc but get all our shopping in one store. Even did that on some xmas pressies too even when Staples ran out of the GPS on offer Walmart price matched the ad.

There are items that are considerably cheaper in the US (you didn't mention the wine and beer :D )and today we did our shopping there whilst there killing several other birds with the one trip. Parcel posting, clothes shopping (choice where we live is "limited" shall we say but we were spoiled living only 15 mins from Bluewater in the UK!). 6% sales tax in Michigan vs 13% HST in Ontario (not on food I know) but when you're doing up your house even Lowes is trawled before the US trip. As with anything though its all in the planning and research.

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Isn't it a bit of an economical own goal to shop over the border? What effect does this have on border towns when mostb of the money is spent in another country?

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Sobeys is a weird one for me, as its expensive compared to Superstore and Walmart for most things, but their flyer deals seem to be brilliant!

for example, last week they had a flat (oh check me, 24 cans) of Pepsi, for something ridiculous like $5, when regularly a box of 12 is $4.50ish

but compare that to 2l bottles of Pepsi, which Walmart sell for $1.60 and Sobeys have at $2.69...

Sobeys never have queues though :lol:

i mostly watch Liquor Depot's flyer though, to see which crap beer is on special, as i refuse to pay $50 for 24 cans, and it seems to alternate week to week as to which pisswater is down to $27.99 for 24

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I love flyers
last time i was in the UK I bought a log maker
I now mulch down all those pesky flyers and compact them into a log.
dry them out over the summe and hey presto free heat for my log burner then I can warm myself with lashings of ginger beer !!!!!

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Yep, often the case (not that I think Walmart is cheap for food - but then it's not the full grocery section yet).

Last week I bought 5 large chicken breasts on special in Sobeys for just over $13. This week Superstore offer price was 4 of them for over $20.

I love getting the still fresh half price loaves in Superstore.

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Some may disagree with me here, but unless you live right near the border and there is no lineup at the crossing itself and no bridge toll then the economics of it don't work out.

For me, it is 45 minutes to the border, then about $3 each way on a bridge toll (Prescott-Ogdensburg) and then you have the shopping delights of Ogdensburg:thumbsup:

As well, just spending an hour or two in the US allows basically no legal duty free exemption (I may stand to be corrected in terms of food and some other items...but clothing, furniture, building supplies, tobacco, alcohol etc do not count in this).

Sure gas and dodgy cigarettes are cheaper, but northern NY state is not a shopping mecca.

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It doesn't do it for me but people make monthly trips. Daft buggers