Safeway is having their Living Well, Feeling Great promotion right now, which basically states that if you buy $30 worth of certain promotional items, will receive a $10 coupon, or catalina, to use on your next purchase. And that $30 is counted before you use your manufacture's coupons, so this is the best way to get great deals from a promo like this:
1. Get as close as you can to the $30 mark (before coupons).
2. Use manufactures coupons to bring your total down.
3. Pay whatever is left and get the $10 coupon. Your first transaction you're probably going to pay more OOP (out of pocket), but once you get that $10 coupon, then you can roll it into the next transaction, so your OOP goes way down.
Here's what I did.
1st transaction: (I didn't use ANY coupons on this first one, and still got a great deal. This was a double dip promo, so there was the Living Well, Feeling Great promo and a Bertolli promo running at the same time.)
16 Bertolli Pasta Sauce packets @ $2.00 each = $32.00 (Owen must have stashed 2 of them.)Paid $32 OOP, but I received the $10 coupon and $16 worth of catalinas for my next trip.
(I earned a $2 off coupon for every two sauces I bought.) I think this Bertolli promo is over. :(
So I paid $32 and earned $26 in catalinas
So in a way, I paid $6 for all those sauces.
This is transaction #2 and #3 lumped into one picture.
2nd transaction: (There was also a double promo running here with the waters. Buy 2, get $2 coupon for your next order.)6 Arrowhead waters @ $1.99 = $11.94
2 Mission tortillas @ $2.50 = $5.oo used (2) $1 coupon here
1 Capri Sun @ $1.99 used $1.00 coupon, and $0.50 in-ad coupon
2 All detergents @ $4.49 = $8.98 used (2) $1 coupons here
1 Bright Green Bleach @ $1.49 used $1 coupon here
1 Safeway brand hot pockets (not shown) @ $1.69
Total $31.09
- $3.11 (10% off total, my Safeway card does this automatically, but not everyone's does.)
- $8.50 in manufacture and store coupons (I also used the Safeway double, which double's 4 coupons up to .50 each, max of $2)
- $10 catalina from 1st transaction
- $8 worth of Bertolli catalinas
Total OOP= 1.48
Received another $10 catalina for the LWFG promo, and $6 worth of catalinas from the waters.
3rd transaction:
2 Capri Suns @ 1.99 = $3.98 used (2) $1 coupons
8 Arrowhead waters @ 1.99 = $15.92
3 Electrasols @ 3.99 = $ 11.97 used (3) $2.50 coupons
Total = $ 31.87
- $3.18 10% off total
- $9.50 manufactures coupons (forgot to use my doubler!)
- $10 catalina from previous transaction
- $8 worth of Bertolli catalinas
Total OOP= $1.19
Received another $10 catalina and $8 worth of catalinas for the waters.
Just a note, you cannot usually use the same catalinas to buy more of that product. So I can't use the cats that I got from buying the waters to buy more waters. Make sense?
I hope you can get through all this and it isn't too hard to understand. Let me know if you have any questions, because it is a little confusing.
