Comments on: Rainbow Foods Double Coupons on Saturdays (Through 4/10)

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 04:00:21 +0000

help me with this concept. how can u save so much when u can only use five coupons

By: Mo'

Mo' — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:43:19 +0000

i love it because i used a rainbow coupon for sour cream and a mfr coupon that was doubled, and ended up getting paid a quarter to take the sour cream home. and i got 2 jars of ragu for $1.32. got overcharged !1.13 per each of 3 12 packs of coke though. have to go back for my refund. grrr!

this was a huge shopping day for me so every little bit off of my $140 grocery bill helps!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:19:13 +0000

Make sure you get your Roundy’s reward card soon, every $50.00 you spend you get $.10 of per gallon of gas up to 20 gallons. Spend a $100.00 and you get $0.20 off.

By: Brenda P

Brenda P — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:47:00 +0000

I am so glad I read your site, or I wouldn’t have known about double coupons on Saturdays too!

I used the Kellogg’s deal and purchased 6 boxes of cereal and two boxes of Nutrigain bars. I had 3 $1 coupons (2 for cereal and 1 for Nutrigrain), two of which doubled. By adding in the coupon from the register tape for $4 off my next trip, the 8 boxes were $1!

Question about multiple trips — can you put the groceries in your car and then go back inside for a second round of shopping? What is the rule about shopping more than once a day?

I was bummed that the EP Rainbow still doesn’t have the frozen smoothie fruit bags in stock yet.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:35:29 +0000

My caution to everyone is to watch your checker! For some reason, some of my printed coupons did not scan, and the checker manually entered it in the register. This did not guarantee that the coupon was doubled!

By: Carrie Rocha

Carrie Rocha — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:53:58 +0000

I recommend TheCouponClippers.com for buying coupons online.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:48:42 +0000

how do you order coupons online? I just started my couponing and am really excited about the savings…I cannot believe I just wrote that. Hahahha…anyways…How can I get these coupons?

By: Helen Martin

Helen Martin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:39:47 +0000

My vote: Keep our stories coming. As long as we say, “This is what happened to me” and maybe try to avoid saying, “Rainbow at X location doesn’t do this anymore” then we can separate anecdote from assumption/rumor.

We all find disparity from week to week and cashier to cashier. But if I know what happened to you and how you handled it, I can be prepared.

I don’t like being blindsided by a new policy/new enforcement of old policy, and really appreciate this site.

By: Kimm

Kimm — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:56:41 +0000

You need to have a roundy’s reward card to participate in the fuel perks. For every $50 ‘spent’ you get .10 credit towards gas at participating BP gas stations (up to 20 gallons). The ‘spent’ often includes prices before coupons, so it is very easy to accumulate .10/gallon when you only spend a couple of bucks out of pocket. To maximize the program, my husband and i go fill at the same time so we can take advantage of the 20 gallon limit (since neither of our cars hold 20 gallons).

By: Kimm

Kimm — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:45:51 +0000

And the promotion is good thru 2/13 — which means everyone can take advantage of it this coming Wed and Sat too.

By: Mary

Mary — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:34:28 +0000

Thanks!

By: MP

MP — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:11:13 +0000

I, too, had my coupons double based on shelf price. One of my totals before coupons was 16.xx and the other was 24.xx. I shop at the Quarry and every time I go I’m a little afraid that my coupons won’t double based on what I see on here, but every time they do!

By: Jo

Jo — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:27:11 +0000

Julie

I agree with your statement. The cashier today totaled my sale before starting coupons and the sale price is what activated the double coupons. My total shelf price was $31.25 after sale was $25.61 so I just barely made it. My total after coupons and double coupons was $4.72 so was good day at Rainbow.

By: Julie W

Julie W — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:25:18 +0000

Hi Rachel,

I reported this morning that they based my doubled coupon eligilibility on the sale price, not the shelf price so things might have changed. I don’t know if I’m spreading a rumor or not, it was a cashier that has ALWAYS based my double coupons on shelf price in the past, i go to her every week. It wasn’t an odd cashier I’ve never gone to that might be doing it her way. This is a cashier I trust, and has consistently based 25$ threshold on shelf price who has changed to basing it on sale price. I am more inclined to think that they are starting to enforce the “25$ sale price” rule on double coupons that has always been Rainbows policy, but hasn’t been enforced.

For the newbie here, or a refresher to others, here is a copied portion of Carrie’s link on the Rainbow policy. I guess my thinking has changed, and I am tempted to view the “25$ threshold based on shelf price” as the exception, not the rule any more. It seems Rainbow times are changing……..

“$25 threshold. Rainbow’s formal corporate policy is that the sale price value of the groceries in your transaction must be at least $25 for your coupons to be eligible for doubling. However, the registers are currently programmed (as of September 27, 2009) to double coupons when the shelf price (the highest price listed on the shelf tag, which is usually the full, pre-sale price) before coupons is $25. If you plan your transactions using the shelf price versus the sale price, you do so at your own risk that the registers have been modified to align with their formal corporate policy.”

Anyone find more reinforcement of this policy recently?

Julie W

By: Julie W

Julie W — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:09:25 +0000

Tammy,

I shop at Northtown also, and for the first time today I had to hit 25$ with my sale price. And that was with the super cool cashier I always see on Wed. So it looks like times have changed. My BF is happy though, because I grabbed a few of his favorite candy bars for my filler!

She also said they’re really looking at the internet coupons for authenticity (for the numbers to not match on the 16 number bar code) too- they’ve had so much fraud. As a matter of fact, someone in a different line had copied coupons while I was there. It’s really too bad. Hope they don’t ruin it for the rest of us.

Julie W