Total saved = ?
Total before coupons and deals - $148.36
Store flier coupons - $3.75
Vendor coupons - $18.99
Advertised special savings - $17.65
Advantage buy savings - $7.58
In-store special savings - $2.50
Total savings = $50.47
Total spent = $97.89
I did ok today.
I bought quite a few buy 1 get 1's, and I got two bottles of Kraft salad dressing for free because they had them on buy 1 get 1, and in my Kraft Food & Family magazine, was a coupon for a free bottle.
They normally cost $3.69 each, so the one with the coupon was "paid", and the other was my get 1 free deal.
Heh.
I get a little giddy when I can sneak in a deal like that.
Now, onto what Publix has done.
Grr.
They closed early on Tuesday night and rearranged the entire store.
All of the aisles are totally swapped around, I have no clue where anything is.
In the 10 years I have been shopping there, it's always been exactly the same.
My OCD was in hell this afternoon.
Health and beauty products are no longer to the right side of the entrance, the wine and Hallmark cards are there now.
Health and beauty is now 7 aisles over, and some of the stuff is missing.
Razor blades for instance, are no longer with the shaving cream, they are now on the end cap displays at the registers.
uh, er, yeah, that makes total sense! *rolls eyes*
Baby products, jar foods, diapers, wipes etc, are now in the aisle with the cookies and candy, which used to be in the same aisle as the diet products like slim fast and rice cakes.
Diet products are now opposite the health and beauty products in aisle 7.
The entire store is now totally swapped around.
After all my years in retail management and working at grocery stores, I know exactly why they did this.
See, if you know where every thing is, you go in with your list and can get out quickly.
If everything gets moved around and the placement of products doesn't make sense, (hello? razor blades should be with the shaving cream!) it will take customers twice as long to do their shopping, and because you will now go up and down every single aisle in search of your items, you will end up making impulse purchases.
A manager was standing at the doorway handing out maps, a list of products alphabetized, and what aisle number those products are now in.
I needed to pick up some girly things for when Aunt Flo comes to visit, and I figured they'd be in with health and beauty, where they were before.
Where they belong.
No!
They were over with the bar soaps and toilet paper in aisle 9.
Yes! that makes total sense doesn't it?!
Tampons and pads should always be with the toilet paper!
The marketing guy geniuses who figured out that feminine hygiene products should be with toilet paper, should get a big 'ol pat on the back or a quick kick to the nut sack.
I don't know why they would do that.
Maybe because when a wife asks her husband to pick up her girly things for her on his way home from work, men automatically think if it goes "down there" then it's probably like ass wiping paper, and that's where men would look first.
They certainly were not thinking about where women find all of their products like hair dye, shampoo, conditioner, shave cream and deodorant, would be the logical place to put all women's products.
Anyway, it's probably going to take me and my OCD about 2-3 months to figure out the new placements of everything, and then they'll decided to switch it up again.
But I got them.
I didn't impulse buy a single solitary item.
Neener fucking neener.
Comments
One of our local grocery stores recently did the same thing, moving a lot of stuff around. But I always have a list and do relatively little impulse buying. I like your canny salad dressing strategy ;-)
Posted by: lattegirl | May 24, 2008 7:07 AM
I HATE it when stores do that. It's bad enough to have to go to the grocery store and deal with stupid people and all. But when they rearrange the whole place, it takes longer to find things, and that means dealing with the stupid people for longer.
I just want to get my stuff, pay and get out ASAP.
Posted by: Christine | May 24, 2008 11:40 AM
Our favorite store did the same thing about a year or so ago. It pissed us off enough that after spending nearly 45 minutes trying to find the few things we were shopping for and not being able to find a few of them we pulled the cart up to the customer service desk, asked for a manager and told him what he could do with the stuff in the cart. He then offered us a "map" of where everything was and we simply told him that if we'd have gotten that when we walked in the door things might be salvagable, but instead we were leaving and would not return EVER....LOL!
We never did go back and have moved on...LOL! But it's annoying as hell! They should have put a stack of the "maps" near the entrance so people who wanted them could have them. But we know why they didn't, don't we? ;-)
Posted by: Holly | May 25, 2008 4:05 PM