Lots of OYNO deals coming next week

My ads came early (yay!) so here’s what I see at first glance:

Giant and Superfresh both doing OYNO deals. Giant’s is Unilever stuff (Ragu, Lipton, Skippy) and Superfresh’s is General Mills. I’m not doing any of those but just putting it out there for you non-Acme shoppers. There are always GM and Unilever coupons out there for you to match up. Superfresh starts Friday, Giant Sunday.

Pepsi/Gatorade: Both CVS and Wags are doing a deal. Spend $20, get $10 back in either ECBs or RRs. The Walgreen’s deal has better prices on the Gatorade, CVS has better prices on the Pepsi. I’m still going to CVS for Gatorade as I have a ton of ECBs to burn and at Wags I’d have to spend actual money. Doritos is also owned by Pepsi and included in both deals. Unless you happen to come across a tearpad at a store, coupons for these items are usually hard to find. Starts Sunday.

Makeup at CVS: Cover Girl and Maybelline both have decent ECB deals that should be almost break even/free deals if you have coupons. I never get Cover Girl coupons in my inserts, but some people do. Some Maybelline is also bogo and CVS usually lets you use 2 coupons on a bogo deal. And don’t forget to see what is on clearance and match it up with your coupons for great deals.

CVS also has a 24 hour allergy relief free after ECB. Roll those bucks if you need to.

Clairol Natural Instincts is $3.99 after ECBs and I think there are $2 coupons out for this. This is the kind I use and I haven’t seen it for much cheaper than this.

Walgreen’s also has a Spend 20, get 10 deal on dayquil, nyquil, vicks. Coupons coming out this weekend. Not free, but cheap if you need it. Ricola cough drops are $1.29 and I have $1 coupons for this–they look like insert coupons. Also running a Unilever deal on the Unilever HBA items-Dove, Caress, Sunsilk. Starts Sunday.

Other items I’ll be looking at at Acme when I do my weekly trip, ad starts on Friday:
Chicken breasts for $1 per lb.
The baby deal I mentioned in a previous blog post.
The Ragu & Skippy bogo deals on back page of ad. There MUST be Unilever coupons coming out this Sunday, with practically every store doing a Unilever deal. So if you don’t currently have any and can wait to grocery shop, I would. Remember Acme will take 2 coupons on a bogo, and double them too, and the Skippy and the Ragu are bogo.
Acme also running a $5/20 General Mills deal. I do not need anything, except maybe Bisquick and Progresso soups. Might be interesting if shelf prices work.
Fresh Express bagged salads are bogo but I think those mfr coupons expired.
Arnold bread on sale for 1.99 and there are $0.55 coupons out. $0.80 is cheap bread and they don’t put any HFCS in theirs, which I like.

I’ll hit Acme for my weekly trip and CVS for the Gatorade, browse the makeup, but that’s about it.

Saturday Night-what’s a couponer to do?

Get ready for superdoubles or triples! I’m going to spend my evening sorting. I never was the clubbing or partying type anyway.

Tomorrow is the 30th–LOTS of coupons expiring after that. Tomorrow also starts the superdoubles at Kmart. There are now several threads going on about this on hotcouponworld. Here is the link to the KMart board. Remember, they will double anything up to and including $2 coupons, no internet printables. Limit 4 of same coupon.

Also–when you are checking out, you need to make sure you watch carefully. They have a new register feature which prompts the cashier to match up the coupon to the item. My advice is this–let’s say you have the $2 Dove hair care coupon. Dove hair care is 3.79 at Kmart. If you have 4 Qs for this, put your 4 Doves on the belt, let them ring it, then hand them the 4 coupons so that when prompted, they will match it correctly.

If, let’s say you have another Unilever item (like Suave, Ragu or many others) and they just match it up to anything, you could lose money. It happened to me last time. It takes a little bit longer, just scout out the cashiers and look for a friendly one. If you’re at Pike Creek, there are several young, very friendly male cashiers that I like. The older women I do not care for.

Also, yesterday started another week of triples at Superfresh. And, they have Rayovac batteries on sale for 0.99. If you got the $1 coupon recently, I think it was just last week, free batteries.

I am taking a break from CVS for a while. The next couple of weeks look slow there and my ECBs are now all good until the 27th or 28th of December, so plenty of time to roll them.