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Extreme Couponing Tips: Come shopping with me
Dear Jill: In one of your recent columns, you featured a letter from a reader who stated that she spent $45.81 and saved $47.36 with coupons....
Tales from the rebate front
Readers continue to weigh in on the pitfalls of mail-in rebates. The anti-rebate emails I receive far outnumber those singing their praises. Here's a sampling....
Super-Couponing Tips: What do stores do with the coupons?
DEAR JILL: You recently wrote about stores getting reimbursed by the manufacturer. As a long-time couponer, it's interesting to learn about couponing from the store and manufacturer's ends. Do the stores hire people to submit coupons to each manufacturer? How many people do this per store? How often...
Help! My groceries are shrinking
Has this happened to you? You're walking down an aisle at the supermarket and you pick up a product you've purchased many times before. Dish detergent, deodorant, a cake mix — it looks the same as it always has, but something just isn't right....
Super Couponing Tips: A senior discount moment
Are senior discounts a right or a privilege? This week, readers share their concerns about shrinking, changing and vanishing discounts. Also, a creative reader offers her save-smart tip for cheaper meats. Take a peek inside my email inbox....
Super Couponing Tips: Save money, no scissors required
DEAR JILL: I do not have a clue what you mean by "load-to-card e-coupons." What card, where do you get the card and how do you load them? How do you load e-coupons via the Internet? — Jean T....
Super Couponing Tips: Walking on shopping's wild side
DEAR JILL: I can barely stand to read the letters from rabid — excuse me, avid — couponers. In one of your recent columns, we heard from a shopper who was unhappy because she wasn't able to cheat the store on sales tax and she wants to have a law about it. ...
Super Couponing Tips: Grocery aisle give and take
DEAR JILL: I really enjoy your column. I work in a grocery store and we are experiencing problems with coupons. When we feature displays with coupon pads, if we do not remove the tear pad of coupons some customers will take all of them. This means that no one else can use the coupons. It would not b...
Super Couponing Tips: How good is your deal?
One of the questions I hear most often is, How do I know I'm getting the best price? Here's my standard. Whether buy a bottle of barbecue sauce or a winter coat, my goal is always to cut the price by half or more. While I love to get "crazy" deals (such as matching a $1 coupon to that barbecue sauce...
Super Couponing Tips: Shoppers' unhappy returns
DEAR JILL: A big toy store is also big on tricks. It was running a sale: buy two video games and get one game free. I selected three games and put them in no particular order on the counter when I bought them. As it turned out, I needed to exchange one game because the kids already had it. As it hap...
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