The Kroger Mega Event is taking place right now and I wanted to share some tips on how I shop these. A Mega Event is when certain items go on sale and you are required to buy 10 items to get $5 taken off at checkout (this is done automatically after scanning your Kroger card). This is $.50 off of each item's sale price.
Most of my work is done at home when I make my grocery list and gather my coupons and then I have some tips and tricks on shopping these sales easier. I also bring my coupon binder along and find deals while I shop (only when I am kid-free!)
Mega Event shopping: I typically group things together in items of 10 in my cart. I then find "fillers" to add... in order to create mulitples of 10. Today I had 25 items in my cart that were part of the mega event and I needed 5 more in order to make it 30 (mulitple of 10- just thought I should add that :)). I used Skinner pasta as my filler this week because they are only $.39 each! I also could have used Kraft bbq sauce at $.50 each but my stockpile is overflowing with bbq sauce right now. I had $15 taken off just for swiping my Kroger card.
I was low on pasta so I stocked up today. I got all of the Ronzoni pasta for free today and decided to stock up for the next 6 months and used every coupon I had in order to do this!
Some of the things I got for free using coupons were the 12 Ronzoni pastas, 2 Del Monte veggies, 2 comet cleaners, baby carrots, coffee creamer, 3 maruchan noodles, 4 Mahatma rice packages and the chicken (yes the chicken)!
I paid $48.52 for everything... orginally $146.23! Also, there was a 1$ catalina coupon printed out for next week.
How I got the chicken for free: I purchased 4 Freschetta pizzas and received a $5 coupon when I checked out. I used this 5$ catalina coupon in order to purchase the chicken (on sale for $4.89) in a second transaction.
I received coupons for free carrots, Del Monte veggies and creamer in the mail last week from Kroger and Vocalpoint.com. If you have not signed up for http://www.vocalpoint.com/ I highly recommend it. They send samples of new products and coupons for free products often. Kroger mails coupons at least once a month to my mailbox and every quarter sends some coupons for free products that I purchase often.
I bring my reusable grocery bags in, and put 10 things in each bag. It makes it easy to SEE that you have 10 items when they are all in a bag. Especially when you are buying other things that aren't a part of the Mega Sale. Before I divided them up in my reusable bags, I would inevitably get to the cash register and think I had counted 30 things, but only 29 rang up!! Just a little tip that I have found useful for some organization!!
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