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.
- GG coupons actually link to external coupon sites, such as the ones I already use–Coupons.com being one of them.
- 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.
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I’m so glad you’re sharing your experiences with the Grocery Game with us. It sounds, so far, like the Grocery Game isn’t giving you any more money-saving advantages than what you could do on your own by carefully watching for sales and clipping coupons. Is that correct?
Jean:
Actually, even with the negative stuff I’ve blogged about (which I feel I should do to make my reporting balanced), we are finding that there is a time-saving element to it. My husband, who likes to do the food shopping, is enjoying the list-like nature of The Grocery Game versus having to toggle back and forth between circulars. Last night it only took about 20 minutes to prepare for his food shopping today. So, so far, I’m still seeing the positive in it, even with some of the glitches I’ve pointed out.
Boo, not cool. I had almost the same thing happen to me. I was pressing print but had an old printer set to default so I couldn’t print them again. I hardly ever use print out coupons because I was denied once at Wal-mart. Let us know if you have any problems with them. Even if GG doesn’t work for y’all at least it is a step in the right frugal direction. At first I thought coupons were more trouble than they were worth but now cutting coupons and watching Real Housewives is a weekly thing I look forward to.
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