Be Careful With Your Coupons!
Mommy is a little….miffed right now.
You see, she had a bunch of coupons to make grocery shopping easier, but she’s run into a bit of a problem. It seems like a lot of stores aren’t accepting or honoring coupons, even if they come from the merchant. Mommy had coupons chips, drinks, breakfast meat stuff, cereal, and a lot of other stuff. They’re all legitimate, even have barcodes so the cashier can run them over their barcode scanner, and come from signing up from online members clubs and stuff. Well, for some reason a lot stores aren’t taking them. Albertson’s grocery store will take some, but mostly just coupons they issue from their ads and stuff.
Wal-Mart seems to be the only place Mommy can get to accept coupons anymore.
Thankfully, the ones she had for canned cat food and some dry cat food were accepted. They’re from Special Kitty and Purina, and the Purina ones aren’t being accepted at Petco, Albertson’s, K-Mart, or Target around here either.
Poor Mommy, she tries to save some money and her efforts are being hampered. Some other humans on Twitter have mentioned having the same problems as well. Are any of your humans running into this?
Written by: Isis on July 9th, 2010
Posted on: July 9th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
Filed under: Food & Drink, Grr!, Humans
Tags: cat food, coupons, food, shopping
Comments: 6
Comments
Comment from Amy & The House of Cats
Time July 13, 2010 at 2:20 pm
We have found a lot of stores won’t accept any coupon that is printed from the internet – we think they think it is to easy to copy them, but we don’t get why that would make a difference.
Comment from Derby and Ducky
Time July 17, 2010 at 7:57 pm
Mum had that happen to here too. Store said they didn’t take internet coupons. Mum said it wasn’t an internet coupon, but they wouldn’t take it anyway. Take your business, if you can, someplace else.
Comment from Junior & Orion
Time July 21, 2010 at 12:26 pm
That is just crappy! If coupons are available online, they should be able to be used everywhere!
Comment from Abby
Time July 26, 2010 at 11:52 am
We shop at Publix (in Florida) and they take all coupons, even other stores.
purrin
xo
Abby
Comment from Lee County Clowder
Time July 26, 2010 at 5:47 pm
They should display some sort of notice at the door if the store is not going to take coupons. Our only suggestion is if the store won’t take the coupon, don’t buy the product, at least not there. (if you can buy the stuff somewhere else for a comparable price) Just leave it on the counter for the store to put back. We kinda suspect that would change things.
Have you thought to notify the companies offering the coupons? Purina is large enough they might be able to put a little pressure on the stores, especially if their promotions are being short-circuited by some clerk who just isn’t in the mood.
Comment from Sweet Praline
Time July 9, 2010 at 10:15 pm
We haven’t tried using any coupons yet, but it appears the stores would post a sign stating no coupons on the door if they weren’t going to accept them.