genuardi’s

Some rumors I heard this week:

1. The Genuardi’s in Kennett Square is in fact going to be transformed over to a Giant. They will keep both Kennett Square locations open.

2. The people at Giant have taken over the lease of the old Acme in New Garden, to prevent any other grocers from coming in. One member of the Smart Spending Spot team has seen a bunch of activity at the location, mainly dry wall being hauled in. Guess we’ll have to wait & see what it is.

3. I was informed that in a few weeks, the price of the Sunday News Journal is going up to $3 a week. This particular person (a vendor) was told “They’re going after the Extreme Couponers.” So, it appears that only couponers are buying newspapers anymore, so charge them more?? Yeah, makes a TON of sense–people that want to save money, charge them more. All the more reason to buy the Daily Local instead–both papers carry both SS and Red Plum.

Yay yay yay! New year, new program for Box Tops for Education. I used to always post about the Growing Local Learning programs, and couldn’t figure out why other shoppers could do these offers. It wasn’t until I went to Box Tops University that I learned (duh!) that GLL is only for the Supervalu chain of stores (Acme, Osco, etc.). They said they were going to partner with other chains too, it was in the works.

Well, a new program has been announced………..and the chain is…………..are you ready………….the Safeway chain! The Safeway family of stores includes Vons, Dominick’s, Tom Thumb, Randalls, Pavilions, Genuardi’s, Carss and Safeway. This means that the special deals that we have all been doing at Supervalu stores–some of you will now have access to similar offers.

What does this mean for you, if you are a Safeway store shopper? A few things. First, if you haven’t already, you really need to go to the main Box Tops website and register. Find your school, I believe they are listed by county, it’s been a while since I did ours. If you haven’t enrolled already, your school will get $0.50 when you do. Then, invite grandparents and others that don’t have kids–because you’ll get $0.50 for each of those too.

Next, just like we have Growing Local Learning for Acme and those stores, the Safeway stores will now have 2ways2earn. So you’ll want to register at both of those sites, or whichever ones are applicable to where you shop. Register your shopping card and you’ll get extra coupons added to your card, email notifications of sales and new eBoxTops every month.

And to kick off this program, right now there is a bonus $2 in Box Tops offer at these stores. Just purchase *5* participating items–see your store’s ad for details on participating products and dates. But 5 is a great deal–for us at Acme, it’s almost always 10 items! Don’t forget your printables before you go.

Here are some of the items usually included: