Bill decided that he wanted to try to stock up on more items this week, based on what was on sale at Stop & Shop. So I went to this week’s Grocery Game link for the store and made sure I didn’t forget to get the GG (or Grocery Game-specific) coupons associated with this week’s sales.

Except I discovered two things I didn’t expect.

1. GG coupons actually link to external coupon sites, such as the ones I already use–Coupons.com being one of them.
2. GG-linked coupons or rather the microsite that they link to don’t seem to work with a printer affiliated with an Apple computer. Because when I clicked on all the coupons I wanted, at the Coupons.com and SmartSource.com site that GG brought me to, I couldn’t print them out. I expected that the Coupons.com site would. But it didn’t. So I went back and tried again and I got an error message telling me that my “print limit reached.” That had never happened to me before. So I tried logging into my account at the Coupons.com site, and it still wouldn’t let me print out the coupons I was looking for–even though they never actually printed. (Eventually, I got them to print but I was still locked out of my account.)

What this means is this: I don’t need the Grocery Game-specific coupons in order to take advantage of the deals I find, as long as I go to Coupons.com or another site on my own. That’s OK, since I’d hoped that the Grocery Game-specific coupons would have somehow been linked up to that week’s outlined specials, but they weren’t. Once I got to the site, I still had to search for them, then click on them, and then print them out. Well, assuming I could print them out, which in yesterday’s instance, I couldn’t.

Another lesson learned.