Bargain Quest

Do you shop at Kroger, City Market, Dillon’s, Fry’s, JC, King Soopers, QFC, Ralphs, or Smith’s and could you use an extra set of Proctor & Gamble monthly coupons? Check out P&G eSAVER, where you can select coupons to be automatically loaded onto your frequent shopper card. When you use your card at checkout and purchase a coupon item, the discount should ring up automatically. Through your account online, you can track which coupons you have and which have been used. You can only load 25 at a time, but I doubt there are more than 25 that any one person would use. I should also note that not all the coupons in last Sunday’s P&G insert were listed as available through the eSAVER portal.

I started writing a post about how I didn’t expect the program to provide me much bargain value, but that was under the assumption that this would be an “either/or” situation in respect to using newspaper coupons and loaded coupons on the same products. According to Crystal’s post about it, however, you can “double dip” using the loaded coupons and the newspaper coupons at the same time. That means the program will be more helpful to me than I had previously thought. (FYI, the coupons loaded on your shopper’s card do not get doubled in value). I don’t normally buy P&G at Kroger because it’s still too expensive after coupons, but having an extra coupon for certain items might change the math.

Currently, there’s also a “$5 off $25 of participating P&G products” promotion at Kroger that could be combined for some deals, and Crystal has the details on some products that can be had for cheap this week.

And if you’re someone who buys a lot of P&G at the grocery store, but doesn’t receive or cut newspaper coupons, this makes for a fairly simple method of saving some dough without paying for or keeping track of coupons.