Now this is the ULTIMATE sucky grocery customer

[draggar]

My issue with it is that these people's hobbies are causing stores to suspend coupon stacking and combining causing people who actually use it out of financial necessity to be SOL.

Ok and I don't know what's up with my quote button but the pics are from the couponer's blog.

Yep. When I lived in NJ Acme stopped all internet coupons because people were making their own, printing out dozens (hundreds?) of them and then trying to use them all at once.

"One per visit" yeah, they'll just break it up into 500 different orders.

Also, grocery stores have, on average, the lowest profit margin (in terms of % of money taken in) of almost any store. They also usually won't get 100% of the face value of a coupon back from the supplier. When you tack these coupons with sales then they're most likely taking a loss on the sale.

Yes, coupons and good sales are great, I'm sure we've all stocked up during those times but cases of mustard, really? I'm sure it would have been cheaper to go to a wholesale club.

Also, I can see her easily becoming the top EW the day that store halts their open coupon policy.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I noticed today that the Fundie Church near me is having a "couponing workshop"...

Coupon is not a verb.

Verbing wierds language.

[depechemodefan]

I just see this woman as really greedy. Like when you go to the store and there are free samples and a person just go back several times for a sample, leaving other people latter on not getting a sample.

I went to the link, then the woman's blog. She said they opened up a register for her but I see her in a self-checkout lane. So it doesn't seem like a cashier had to do anything for her.

I also hate that she made 3 different purchases-I suppose to by-pass the "limit quanity" issue. Didn't seem she asked the manager if she could make three different purchases. I get pretty sick when I go to the drugstore, and people have the store coupons that say "limit x quanity" and they get more then the quanity allowed. I wish someone would tell them "no."

[Caveat Emptor]

A year and a half ago my grocery store had some special coupons in their flyer which would triple manufacturers coupons. I had a coupon for an Edwards frozen pie slice so I wound up paying less than 25 cents for it in the end. THAT was sweet (pun intended.)

What THIS crazy whore was doing....is beyond insane.

[Can I Help Your A$$?]

I think the important point to be made is:

Nobody actually saves money through extreme couponing.

I know! Unbelievable, right?

[BookstoreEscapee]

Verbing wierds language.

You spelled weird wrong.


On another note, my ex-boss and I were talking about the Extreme Coupon show at lunch the other day so I had to send him the Coupon Whore website.

[SG15Z]

0.0 That's a lot of stuff. I've had big coupon orders before, some totaling to about $300 in coupons but not $800! Damn. Just damn.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I use coupons occasionally; I go through the paper when I go to my parents' house on the weekends (conveniently, they get all the Sunday inserts on Saturday ). I pull out ones for things I use, or things I might want to try (so if I end up not liking it, at least I got a little something off on it). A lot of them expire before I get around to using them. If I have one for something I need, great; if that thing is also on sale, even better; if the store doubles them on top of that, yay! But I have no desire to spend the equivalent of a full-time job matching up hundreds of coupons to sales so I can stockpile things it'll take me years to use.

I am glad that the grocery store I go to most often apparently has updated their system so I get coupons back for things I actually bought instead of a different brand of a similar product like I used to get all the time. If I bought it once, it's safe to guess I might buy it again. I used to always get coupons for brands I don't use and it was kind of annoying.

[tropicsgoddess]

Coupons are great to save money here and there on things you need, NOT hoarding a bunch of useless shit to be a cheapskate!!

[Frantic Freddie]

To be fair,there are some people that need to buy huge quantities of stuff,e.g., group homes,I've seen them fill up a van with stuff at Costco.Another kind are those that live on a farm or ranch many miles away & only come into town once every few weeks,those are easy to spot since they'll be driving an obvious ranch truck (late model dually with dents & dirt) & will have big coolers to keep the frozen/cold stuff for the long drive home.

[BookstoreEscapee]

To be fair,there are some people that need to buy huge quantities of stuff,e.g., group homes,I've seen them fill up a van with stuff at Costco.Another kind are those that live on a farm or ranch many miles away & only come into town once every few weeks,those are easy to spot since they'll be driving an obvious ranch truck (late model dually with dents & dirt) & will have big coolers to keep the frozen/cold stuff for the long drive home.

I'm sure there are people out there that do buy like this for good reasons; it's just that the TV show doesn't focus on those people so everyone gets tarred with the same brush as the woman buying 200 individual candy bars and 300 boxes of pasta just cuz they come out practically free.

[mattm04]

To be fair,there are some people that need to buy huge quantities of stuff,e.g., group homes,I've seen them fill up a van with stuff at Costco.Another kind are those that live on a farm or ranch many miles away & only come into town once every few weeks,those are easy to spot since they'll be driving an obvious ranch truck (late model dually with dents & dirt) & will have big coolers to keep the frozen/cold stuff for the long drive home.

The OPs post indicated, the extreme couponer went to a Big Y. Those only exist in CT and MA. So unless they had a really big family, they were hoarding as plenty of other stores are near by.