Perhaps we should make a fill-in-the-blank article: _____ has announced it will discontinue double coupons, effective on _____. Today, you can fill in those blanks with “Dillons” and “August 21st.” Proving that even Kroger subsidiaries are not immune to the parent company’s recent aversion to double coupons, the Kroger-owned, Kansas-based chain Dillons, along with its subsidiary Gerbes, announced today that[Read More…]
Loyalty cards are out, but competitors’ coupons are in at Shaw’s. Meantime, the grocery chain is finding out the hard way that it still needs to stick price tags on everything. In all but a half dozen stores, that is, because they’re shutting down. Got all that? Three unrelated developments could change the way New Englanders do their shopping at[Read More…]
Double coupons are officially over the hill – and in some areas, they’re fading fast. It’s an interesting time to be commemorating the 40th anniversary of this money-saving perk, because the very grocery chain that claims to have invented double coupons may become the one that finally kills them off. To mark the first anniversary of Coupons in the News,[Read More…]
As late as Monday night, Harris Teeter and Kroger were still negotiating their deal that was announced early Tuesday morning (read: “Sold! Kroger Buys Harris Teeter”). Meanwhile, Kroger’s Central Division had, much earlier, decided to announce its new lower prices (and oh, by the way, no more double coupons) on Tuesday morning (read: “Kroger Keeps on Killing Doubles”). So for[Read More…]
This is getting a bit tiresome, but here we go – Kroger is eliminating double coupons again, in yet another region. This time, it’s the Central Division, which incorporates Indiana and Illinois, as well as a few stray stores in Missouri, Michigan and Ohio. The double coupons will end after July 31st; the “new lower prices” that will make up[Read More…]
As Kroger continues its campaign of eliminating double coupons region by region, many shoppers are resigned to the apparent inevitability that it’s only a matter of time until the entire chain does away with doubles. The company hasn’t said what its long term plans are, but now company officials are offering their biggest hint yet, about what’s to come. Let’s[Read More…]
If anyone had hoped that Kroger might change its mind and reinstate double coupons in areas where it’s eliminated the practice, think again. The nation’s largest supermarket chain is doing away with doubles in yet another region, after its latest earnings report indicated that it’s doing just fine without them. The next domino to fall is Kroger’s Delta division, which[Read More…]
The reunited Albertsons has finally clarified some confusion and confirmed what many had suspected but hadn’t quite pinned down – the “Preferred Card” loyalty program is history. Oh, and so is the Albertsons coupon policy. More on that in a bit. But first, “our Preferred Card is no longer required at our stores to receive sales prices on items,” the[Read More…]
To all the frustrated shoppers in areas where Kroger has eliminated double coupons, who are now vowing to shop elsewhere – Kroger isn’t too worried about losing your business. In fact, you’re just helping to make Kroger’s case for eliminating double coupons in the first place. Talk about making a bad situation even more frustrating. Kroger stopped doubling coupons in[Read More…]
We’ve all experienced it – the coupon-hating cashier or manager who looks for every excuse not to accept your coupons, or rolls their eyes when you try to use any. On the corporate level, though, stores at least pretend to be coupon-friendly – even when they’re not. But when they get together to talk shop, you might be surprised at[Read More…]
