tjr wrote:I truly prefer paper ads to online ones because I feel that I can read them much faster and more efficiently. And I find that when we don't get ads from stores, I'm much less likely to go to those stores. Not because I'm miffed at them, it's just that they fade from my awareness.
pudgym29 wrote: Week #5: Anything good this week?
A different outer sheath to start. Page 1 has a dental plans offer. Page 2 has a pitch for paper checks.
Pages 3 and 4 serve ads from a home security service.
There is one coupon sheet which you may appreciate. The back page of the included Vericast booklet has six coupons for Krispy Kreme donuts. I cut these out and save them, but I don't think I would use them unless I was heading to a meetup somewhere. I also could not inform you offhand where is a Krispy Kreme donut shop close to 60641. I would not get through a dozen donuts before they became hard.
You might also find useful the products being offered in the Vericast booklet. (I did not.)
The AT&T Fiber ad is not included this week.
We get a new advertiser selling furniture. The questionable 11% off advert from Menards makes another appearance. The typical standby Jewel-Osco and the Tony's Fresh Market ad (these are the ones I hang on to for the week), Cermak Produce #2 [4401 W. Armitage], Cermak Fresh Market #18 [5129 W. Belmont Ave. - a former Jewel-Osco store], Cermak Fresh Market #16 [4000 W. Diversey Ave.] are present. There is no Aldi ad; but an Angelo Caputo ad for four stores including the one in Elmwood Park has the $5 off $50+ coupon. I should mention there is no Food4Less or Mariano's ad.
I have no intention to try and scarf more flyer packs.
Menards has periodically offered the 11% rebate for years, long before the pandemic. It's not worth the 58-cent postage if you buy no more than $5.30 of eligible items, but it is if you buy more. It's a store credit, not a check, but people who are timing their purchases of even $50 of dog food or, say, a $400 bathroom vanity or $1,000 of lumber do watch and wait for the 11% rebate.NFriday wrote:Menards is a mail in rebate. You mail them your receipts, and they send you a check for 11% of whatever you bought. ... They do this because with the pandemic, when they put stuff on sale, they had problems stocking it, and this entices people to come into the store and get whatever they want.
Katie wrote:Menards has periodically offered the 11% rebate for years, long before the pandemic. It's not worth the 58-cent postage if you buy no more than $5.30 of eligible items, but it is if you buy more. It's a store credit, not a check, but people who are timing their purchases of even $50 of dog food or, say, a $400 bathroom vanity or $1,000 of lumber do watch and wait for the 11% rebate.NFriday wrote:Menards is a mail in rebate. You mail them your receipts, and they send you a check for 11% of whatever you bought. ... They do this because with the pandemic, when they put stuff on sale, they had problems stocking it, and this entices people to come into the store and get whatever they want.
pudgym29 wrote: Week #8: This week went on a diet.
The outer sheath has: Page 1 - An ad for home design remodeling (closets).
Page 2 - The same ad as last week for a gutter leaf protection system.
Page 3 - The same ad as last week for a bathroom remodeler {With the picture of the female 'renovation expert'.}.
Page 4 has an ad for the cigar scheme (invalid in Utah).
No coupons for any entity at all this week. There was a possibility of a good offer from the Vericast booklet, but the ad for the Purina for Life sweepstakes hides the prizes and the odds of winning in a separate PDF file. It is a scuzzy attempt to get e-mail addresses to spam - Do not click on its QR code!. Which is really too bad, as nearly all of the cat food on the premises is from Purina. Mirko's favorite wet cat food flavor is Purina Friskies Shreds with Whitefish & Sardines in sauce.
The flyer delivered to the abode here has the elements typical of previous weeks. The questionable 11% off advert from Menards makes yet another appearance. Does Menards believe if it keeps hammering away with "11% off"; people will be dulled to the situation that you are effectively locked in to spending what money is "saved" at Menards? This does not count as "savings" to me. I know Menards is mostly in the midwest, but if it is going to persist at puffing this bogus "savings" pitch, perhaps you and I should instead shop at Home Depot and Lowe's.
It has the typical standby Jewel-Osco and the Tony's Fresh Market ad {Whoa. Nothing that good in the Tony's ad, but it now lists sixteen store locations}, Cermak Produce #2 [4401 W. Armitage], Cermak Fresh Market #18 [5129 W. Belmont Ave. - a former Jewel-Osco store], Cermak Fresh Market #16 [4000 W. Diversey Ave.] are present. It is time for the two-week Centro Fresh Market ad [4804 W. Diversey Ave.].
There is no telephone or internet ad this week.
What can I scribe? I do not do a lot of grocery shopping. When I determine I need something, my first choice is going to be Aldi, even though I now have to look its flyer up online, unlike people living in 60618. I am definitely price-conscious. I still have sixteen cans remnant of Campbell's Chunky Soup bought at Food4Less for 99¢ in January 2021.
That is it for the flyer which was delivered to 60641.
P. S.: Looking up full-sized mattresses, Consumer Reports scribes I should opt for the Novaform 80x60x10 (10") SoFresh Responsive Foam mattress. It is showing up for $496.11 @ Target.
RockyDennis wrote:Sheesh. Like a book report. Too much.
Cathy2 wrote:In our packet is a Lewis Fresh in Waukegan...two locations with the better managed one on Grand Avenue.
tjr wrote:Anyhoo, the Grand Av location now has a large and rather nice food court in the back along with substantial deli, produce, seafood, bakery and import departments along with some different meat selections: Picanha, tri-tip, rose meat for examples. Worth a visit for anyone in eastern Lake County; it's a junior Latino version of an H Mart.
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