I'll splice this sentence in before the main post. I use color in these responses because I believe
your vision is more affected by seeing all these posts in dark gray on an off-white background. I feel I give your eyes a rest from the tsunami of the standard colors on display.
If people would like to suggest a different color that is not red, please inform me via PM. This week's color is a shade of
pink.
Oh, and I have already blocked the member who seemingly enjoys trashing my replies. If he wasn't using a mobile telephone to browse here, he would have already found the mechanism on how to block
my responses from appearing on his cigarette-pack-sized screen. {How does he deal with Ronnie Suburban's image posts?}
Week #34: Have you tuned out the Xmas decks yet?
(Every time I unfortunately hear "Let It Snow, {etc x2}" or "White Christmas" [even the Drifters' version does not do it for me any more], I await someone composing and recording the "answer" song, "Shovel Me Out".)
The sheath: N, G, F, H.
This week, my bank, Community Savings Bank, published a glossy flyer alerting everybody about 'check washing'. Miscreants are getting into U.S.P.S. blue mailboxes with keys stolen from employees, looking for envelopes potentially holding a paper check, opening them and doing the check washing to direct the check to themselves. This is the death knell for paper checks. If you have not yet switched over your regularly-scheduled bill payments to something electronic, or utilized an alternate method of physically making the payment, you need to do this. Cease buying paper checks. (The reason this post did not appear until Wednesday is because of a number of reasons. The monthly City of Chicago Water Bill was due Tuesday. I pay those with a bank money order which remains in my possession all the way to City Hall, and could not be altered if lost or stolen anyhow. There was also a World Cup Semi-Final match. I was out of the abode many hours on Tuesday.)
Page 1 is a regular-sized Doordash ad. It has the same terms as what appeared the previous week. $10 off your order ($20+), with no delivery charge if it is your first order. This week's code is b6nxn68.
Page 2 is the paper checks advert.
The meat procurement advert is on Page 3. We have details on what you will receive for $99.99. (Alleged retail value: $240.93) Page 4 has the less-slick, but still abhorrent foray to get dim-witted people's money for U.S. gold coins. It is running the advert this week, because it figures people will not have $1,650.00 available after the holidays.
We have another glossy sheet of 20 coupons for Burger King. These coupons are valid through 19 February 2023, and there are price raises on the Whopper® meal for two, up 50¢ to $12.99 [4374], and the two Whopper® Jr. + fries meal is up to $5.99 [2232].
We have the Vericast coupon booklet. There is one page with coupons for Country Crock plant-based 'butter', and Ragu spaghetti sauce, which could couple-up with something beneath.
The only true sale item I espy in the Food 4 Less advert is Entenmann's donuts for $2.99.
There is a 'sleeper' in the Butera advert: Red seedless grapes for 99¢ | lb. [2-bag limit]. Jewel-Osco will try to charge you $2.88 | lb., and Tony's Fresh Market will try to charge you $2.49 | lb. On the other hand, Tony's has the real deal on 12-packs of 12-oz. bottles of Leinenkugel's or Michelob Ultra $9.99 (must buy 2) and a digital coupon for 12-packs of 12-oz. cans of Coca-Cola beverages 4 | $12.88 [limit of 4]. [How does this work? Does it remember you bought four 12-packs at 4608 W. Belmont when you subsequently appear at 5630 W. Belmont and | or 2500 N. Central? Does it reset every calendar day?]
Jewel-Osco is undercutting its own deal at select stores. The previously mentioned glossy page aimed at Latinx customers and at select stores offered Riceland Rice long grain 20-lb. bag for $8.88. The thin page on the left edge of this week's advert and only at select stores - but not all of the stores collated on the Latinx page - has the same sized bag for $6.99 [limit of one] [Again; would it keep track of you visiting multiple Jewel-Osco stores listed here on the same day?].
The Ragu coupon from the Vericast booklet could be applied here, as Ragu is tied in with other foodstuffs selling at 3 | $5.00. The price for a 16-oz. loaf of Sun-Maid raisin bread is $2.79. Jewel-Osco has the low price on a 12-pack of 12-oz. packages of Miller High Life beer ($6.99). But it is charging more for the 12-packs of Leinenkugel's ($12.99 - must buy 2). And the price of Miller High Life is lower at Binny's (30-pack 12-oz. cans $12.99). (I do not typically see a large selection of Leinenkugel's beers at Binny's.)
{Why do I mention Miller High Life? Depending on how deeply you've gone into the craft beer foxhole, you may or may not know that when craft brewers are not drinking their own brews, the macro beer they typically have, and was in stock at their private lounge at FoBAB, is Miller High Life.}
We have a Binny's Beverage advert orbiting around wine, champagne, and spirits.
The lineup is the stock lineup: - Tony's Fresh Market (20 stores)
- Jewel-Osco
- Cermak Produce #2 [4401 W. Armitage Ave.]
- Cermak Fresh Market #18 [5129 W. Belmont Ave. - a former Jewel-Osco store]
- Cermak Fresh Market #16 [4000 W. Diversey Ave.]
- Centŕo Fresh Market [4804 W. Diversey Ave.](2-week advert)
- Menards
So how will this effect me? There is one Xmas present I have not yet bought. It is a book. It might be in stock at a Barnes and Noble store on Touhy Ave. in Skokie, IL. I am queasy as to whether it would tell me the truth over the telephone about stocking it there. {"Get him in the store. He'll buy something rather than walking out empty-handed."} If I take out the 1987 Chevrolet Sprint, I could wind up at more than one shop around there. {Do I need four or eight 12-packs of Coca-Cola?}