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Week #107: Stay disciplined.

Outer sheath: 4, D, B, N*.
* = up to $10.00 off first order code = 9ww5s7

• Jewel-Osco
• Aldi
• Tony's Fresh Market
• Carnicerias Jimenez
• Cermak Fresh Market #18 & #16
• Cermak Produce #2
• Centŕo Fresh Market
• Burger King (20 coupons valid through 28 July [but they never expire])
• AT&T fiber internet ^
• Menards
• GreenSky loan sharking

^ = The AT&T offer is 300 Mbps internet for $55.00 | month. This does not involve mobile phone service. This is the deal you should investigate. I keenly recommend opting for 1 Gbps [940 Mbps] for $80.00 | month. {Ordering online at this rate sprouts a $150.00 Visa® debit card.}

The Burger King two-month experiment with the 12-coupon glossy sheet has been ceased. The Whopper® meal for two went up to $13.99 [5605], the Royal Crispy Chicken meal up to $7.49 [5882], the two bacon cheeseburger meal up to $6.99 [5083], and the double cheeseburger deal up to $5.99 [6927]. Depending on how much you like BK's french fries, you can select from the $5.00 Whopper Jr. hamburgers offer, or use a coupon to get two orders of medium fries with them for $5.99 [4865].
For reference purposes: In July 2022, you could order its ‘Family Bundle’[3 Whoppers, 3 cheeseburgers, 3 small french fries] for $12.99 [2663]. Medium fries were specified starting the next month, and the price was then raised to $14.99 [6946].

The most arduous portion of compiling the 'good deals' in metropolitan Chicago supermarkets is when a store camouflages its actual price behind a "buy 1 (2), get 1 (2) free" tag. Particularly when a competing grocer annotates its sale price. Must I logon to each chain's World-Wide Web site and virtually fill my cart with those items? This should be a paying job for a consumer ombudscritter. Yes, everybody agrees: When an item is designated for B1G1F, its price has amazingly gone up by 50¢-2.00 from when its price was last annotated in the advert.

I ensue with Jewel-Osco. I have postponed going out shopping because the lawns here are in urgent need of mowing before the State of Illinois declares them a prairie. I am on numerous voice mails awaiting a callback from somebody (anybody) to inform me it can do the task - and it will be here on {date}. Else, a weekday afternoon extending into early evening is when I would get on a CTA bus to do some moderate grocery shopping.
But this week @ Jewel-Osco, I will have to haul out the 1987 Chevrolet Sprint.
Will I motor out to a suburb? I might, but I do not really have to. I have sufficient plastic bags here at the abode to collate the items I would buy (with the lucid exception of 12-packs of 12-oz. soda cans); it is more that putting the bought items back into my cart slows down the patrons behind me in the checkout, and the space set aside for self-checkout is confined. Then also, once the Sprint is out-&-about, what are the other auto-centric trips I should commit? (Recycle the empty 12-oz. cans? Shop for beer - bottles and cans?) More crucially: How rigid is Jewel enforcing the limit 4- digital on the 12-packs of 12-oz. cans? Delving in; it looks like the upper limit is four. But now I wonder if it resets at midnight?
[The initial four 12-packs will be Coca-Cola brands, and for example, these were bought at 2520 N. Narragansett. The next store would be at 6430 W. Irving Park, and there would be Pepsi-Cola brands.]
Frankly, I am surprised there is a $3.99 sale on soda this week. I expect any number of chains including Food 4 Less | Mariano's to have $3.99 or lower pricing next week.
Jewel has the Nathan's Famous Beef Franks 12-oz. for $4.99. If you would prefer the Ball Park beef franks 14-oz., it is B1G1F. The regular chicken & pork franks can be found for $3.65.

At Tony's Fresh Market the spell check failure was corrected.
Last week, Tony's was trying to get $3.50 for an 18-oz. jar of Sweet Baby's Ray BBQ sauce. This week, it is actually on sale for 99¢ (must buy at least 5 - no upper limit). {Everybody has Sweet Baby's Ray sauce on sale for 99¢ this week. Jewel-Osco's limit is 3 (digital).}
Here again, what is Tony's regular price for the Nathan's Famous Beef Franks 12-oz.? If I can find a single package of it selling for $4.49, would anything less than or equal to $8.99 B1G1F be a good deal? Ditto for the Ball Park 15-oz. chicken & pork franks.
The beer deal at Tony's is the 12-pack of 12-oz. bottles of Bohemia [MX] $12.99 (must buy 2). Bohemia is a better beer than Corona or Modelo, for which Tony's wants another two dollars.

Gazing at Flipp, Food 4 Less has the held-over (for a 3rd week) $1.00 for theater-box candy. The price on the regular-size Hershey candy bars [1.85-oz.] is $1.00 - you could get that. Food 4 Less has the Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce for 99¢ (in a herd of at least 5 - no upper limit). The 28-oz. bottle of Powerade has gone for as low as 59¢, so I discourage buying it for 77®. The Little Debbie Snack Cakes for $2.50 is good. Try the Zebra Cakes. I'm flexible with store brands, so if you want to test Kroger's soda 12-packs, $3.99 is OK. Kroger's 8-oz. potato chips are tasty, but they usually go on sale at 3 | $5.00, so I would not pay $1.99.

There is nothing especially remarkable this week at Aldi. Last week, I indicated what I shop for there. Its weekly ad hardly ever lists an item I buy. That it gives up its entire second page to non-food items slows me down trying to advise you what to buy each week. I surmise it is trying to compete with Target®.
But there are no 'good deals' at Target. People shop at Target because they like its corporate identity and behavior. Why does Aldi want to emulate it? Does it want a suggestion from yours truly? Put a non-Windows® computer from a German manufacturer on sale one week. {From somebody who bought a Windows® Vista desktop from it back in 2008.}

Carnicerias Jimenez has nothing unless you want to try its in-store taqueria.

This is what was delivered this week to 60641.

Hi,

I thought of you when I saw Jewel was selling canned Coke for $3.99 for a 12-pack. That seems to be the price point worth considering from your point-of-view.

Maybe I will wait until Tuesday morning to see if a better deal can be had via the preview ads.

Regards,
Cathy2

Cathy2 wrote:Hi,

I thought of you when I saw Jewel was selling canned Coke for $3.99 for a 12-pack. That seems to be the price point worth considering from your point-of-view.

Maybe I will wait until Tuesday morning to see if a better deal can be had via the preview ads.

Regards,
Cathy2

I would wait until next week. Soda prices are the lowest right before holidays and next week we should see sales for Memorial Day.

I kinda doubt that any of the big grocers will beat $4 per 12pack for Memorial Day, but somewhere like Dollar General or Family Dollar might do 3/$11. Problem there is that flavor selection is limited. Lately the big guys have been pushing cases for $10, an obviously worse deal.

Some other highlights: Montrose has their good bone-in pork loin roast for $1.79. ShopNSave has muenster for $2.99, Guggisberg baby Swiss for $4.79, and domestic feta for $2.99 along with Lefas olive oil for $22.99/3L (cheap now, only 60ish% more than it was a couple years ago!) KD has pork tenderloin for $2.49, cherries for $2.99, and a group of Polish and German beers 4packs for $3.99, might be the 500ml cans maybe.

Butera continues the split turkey breast for 99¢ along with jumbo eggs for $1.49 (limit 3 but can revisit), cherries $2.99, strawberries and a bunch of other produce 99¢. Some of those deals are the same as Jewel but with less restrictions and coupons. No weary Hillshire Farm charcuterie this week! The cherry price seems to be the best around - unless you're willing to risk Jerry's where they are $1.49 along with $1.49 peaches. Usually the really early peaches are so small and rock hard they aren't worth the trouble.

Hi,

I just saw a preview of Jewel's ads for next week.

Mind bending ad: Pepsi, Coke and Dr. Pepper 12-packs are buy two get three free. $3.99 each when you buy five!

You can buy at $3.99 this week in any count you want.

Regards,
Cathy2

Umm, at Jewel the 3.99 soda is "when you buy 4, limit 4." Or were you thinking of another retailer?

tjr wrote:Umm, at Jewel the 3.99 soda is "when you buy 4, limit 4." Or were you thinking of another retailer?

Check out next week's Jewel flyer. I saw a preview.

Cathy2

This is something which has shifted over the past seventeen years {cicadas on my mind}. Back in 2007, I recall reading a consumer tale that the packagers of Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola had tied-up 44 of the year's 52 weeks for the 'sale' price on their brands at grocers that week.
There was no cross-marketing.
One week, it was Coca-Cola brands, the next week it was Pepsi brands. Dr. Pepper | 7-Up (what I now refer to as Keurig Dr. Pepper) got the remnant eight weeks. When it was on sale, neither Coca-Cola or Pepsi was on sale.
In 2024, it has modified to all packagers' brands that week.
But the digital aspect is being used to reduce just how much can be bought for that price.
Those of you who are on facebook (a|k|a DungHeap), chat up the soda manufacturers there. Tell the Pepsi critter that if it goes on sale at a store at the same price as Coca-Cola, you would buy it if you could really buy it at the sale price: i.e.: not discover at the end of your checkout that you were charged $3.99 each for the Coca-Cola 12-packs, but $9.99 each for the Pepsi 12-packs {because of the digital limit}. Tell the critter if it allows its brands to go on sale the same week as its competitor [Drop the "C-C" word in on the chat.], it should have a separate digital limit for each manufacturer.
And much of this is special to Chicago, because the plant that puts out the Keurig Dr. Pepper brands is truly local. It can, and has, reintroduce Cherry RC Cola because it is is not reliant upon the Coca-Cola or Pepsi manufacturer to schedule more time for Dr. Pepper, 7-Up, A&W, or Canada Dry brands. It might not happen this week, or even this summer, but when it becomes time for the soda manufacturers to renew their pricing deals with grocers, this should be a major contention for them.

No printed grocery ads in our Wednesday Tribune this week, hope that's not a trend.

Some highlights from the markets Mr. P doesn't cover:

Butera: For those who aren't doctrinaire about their weenies, Oscar Meyer are $1.69 per lb pack, must buy 5 OM/Kraft items. For those who are, Vienna Beefs are $4.99/12oz. Also $1.99 cherries - looks like a promising cherry season. The early arrivals I had last week were quite good. Bulholzer muenster for $3.99 - not the cheapest but Bulholzer is really good stuff. 99¢ country style ribs + $1.49 jumbo eggs round it out.

Montrose: No super deals in the 2 page flyer online, but I've always been curious about the beef clod @ $5.49 - is it different from the usual chuck roast? For something different for Memorial Day, duck @ 3.49. Wonder what duck in the smoker might be like - can't be far more fatty than pork butt?

Shop&Save: Brick & feta $2.99, Vienna Beefs $3.99.

KD: 2.49 pork tenderloin continues. $1.99 cherries, 99¢ Georgia peaches, $1.99 Michigan asparagus.

For the bold, or the uninitiated, Jerry's: 3/$1 pounds of Cal peaches, $5.99/L Italian olive oil, $5.99 2lb Greek honey, 99¢/lb peppers. $4.99/lb container Minor's no-msg chicken base. Plus undoubtedly an assortment of oddball items on the front sidewalk. Should be close to time for a bunch of leftover Passover foods.

tjr wrote:No printed grocery ads in our Wednesday Tribune this week, hope that's not a trend.

Same here. I do know that they switched printing plants the other day.

Vericast switched to doing their own printing and assembling the weekly flyers several weeks ago. The bundles are then shipped to a Tribune facility which inserts them in the papers. Changing the location of the Tribune facilities this week may well have caused some problems. Since Vericast took over the printing and part of the distribution I received a bundle for the wrong zone twice.

The proper bundle was in my Tribune today.

I am not expending six hours today reporting on the sale items in this week's flyer {and it wasn't here @ 14:18 hours}. I am hauling out the 1987 Chevrolet Sprint and motoring to shops right now.
Not-so-late flash: The weekly flyer never showed up here this week.
Please excuse my Italian. This usually expresses in a physical gesture; but what it stands for in text is "Up your arse and break it off."
This is the final straw for Alden Global Capital. Everything associated with it needs to die. If anything in its control was to print "Memorial Day is May 27th", you should seek independent corroboration.
This is the one week when having the physical copies of grocers' advertisements was critically significant. But it could not even provide that. And advertisers are | were (?!) paying it to deliver their advertisements. Utterly pathetic, to the level of incompetent.
Is it trying to linger long enough to attempt to influence November's election?
If it endorses anybody in the election, vote for the opponent. If you are somebody it endorses, disclaim the endorsement. The only people that matter to it are its 1%-income-level stockholders, most of whom are not eligible to vote in Illinois, Cook County, or Chicago.

Ooof {exhales}. I really dislike having to do that, forum readers.
Food 4 Less | Mariano's | Jewel-Osco (limit 10 - not digital | Tony's 12-packs [limit 8] 12-oz. soda cans $3.99. If you do not wind up with at least thirty 12-packs of soda, you are a slovenly {bleep}; and I will loathe having to deal with you in subsequent weeks because you are running low {not really} - insisting that 4.59-4.99 is not a sale price.
Since this is not digital, there is nothing preventing you from buying 10 12-packs today, another 10 12-packs on Saturday, and another 10 12-packs on Tuesday.
{Chop Suey King, the Chinese take-out venue close to here which throws in a free 12-oz. soda can with each lunch special [up to 15:30 hours] should absolutely load up via this.}

Pretty much everybody will sell you Baby Ray's BBQ sauce 18-oz. for 99¢. Incredible that somebody actually advertised 3.50 as a "sale" price for this a few weeks ago.
Lots of chains will purvey the 20-oz. Scott Pete polish sausage for $3.99 | but whether this includes the beef sausage is a quandary. The advert illustrations confuse rather than elucidate.
Information received: The beef polish sausage at Food 4 Less is included in the 3.99 sale.
At Jewel, the same item is priced at 9.99. You're welcome.

Angelo Caputo has deli salads for $1.49 | lb. or 4.99 for 46-oz., which is way lower than the 5.99 for 3-lbs. at Food 4 Less.
Then there is also Food 4 Less' attempt to get 1.50 for the Minute Maid 59-oz. {used to be 64-oz.} lemonade cartons which were 99¢ (digital) last week at Jewel.
But to its credit, the 99¢ for hot dog buns (digital - limit 5) is way less than what so-called 'low-price leader' Aldi wants for the same item.
Tony's Fresh Market has a coupon for $20.00 off if you spend at least $100.00 there in one trip. Large eggs 99¢ (digital).

Just with whom is Aldi comparing itself in its 'low-price leader' motto? Martin's Mini Market on N. Cicero Ave.? Yes, it is very likely lower-priced than that, but that's not an especially high bar to clear. Nobody compares themselves to WalMart. The small print usually explicitly excludes WalMart. However, Aldi store managers usually have some leeway to match a WalMart price if you bring it to their attention. {For example: The Aldi at 4627 W. Diversey, across the avenue from a WalMart.}
Aldi was savagely shredded in its price for hot dog and hamburger buns by Food 4 Less (| Mariano's). Although I had to go down on my hands and knees to get the hot dog buns at the rear of the lowest shelf at Food 4 Less. I ponder if the plant baking the buns for each store is the same? When was the last time Aldi sold a 12-pack of 12-oz. soda cans for 3.99?

Jewel-Osco has raised the 'sale' price on the Chex Mix | Bugles | Gardetto's 8.5-oz. bags from 99¢ to 1.99 (digital). In addition to the ten 12-packs of 12-oz. soda cans, I bought the Entenmann's chocolate donuts B1G1F ($6.59).

Am I going to get another eight 12-packs of 12-oz. soda cans at Tony's? That is a solid question. Sometime later this weekend, I'll check Tony's advert on Flipp to learn what else it might have that I would purchase. The purveyors would slant toward Coca-Cola | Pepsi-Cola, but this could be upset if I espy the 'seen-in-the-wild' Cherry RC Cola in stock. More probable are additional 12-packs of Pepsi flavored colas, or caffeine-free Pepsi. (I've tried three Mountain Dew flavors, and Mountain Dew with real sugar. I don't want to buy them again. Manzanita Sol has a higher chance of being bought. I completely held off buying ginger ales and root beers this trip. I'm unenthused about citrus Squirt; but ruby red Squirt would be tried again.)
A more substantial task is marshalling the 12-packs in order in the beer (& soda) cellar here at the abode. The ones closer to their "best by" dates need to be on top of the stacks; there are several stacks (because if the stacks get too tall, the weight atop the cans can generate a hairline fracture in the bottom ridge and leak all their content); and I endeavor to have different types of soda brought upstairs for consumption. Usually, sixteen cans (4 × 4) go into the refrigerator.

As for where to report on what I bought today, I'm angling toward this thread, even though the majority of what was bought should go in the Soda topic.
But more crucially, I need to get this post out so you can get to Food 4 Less and Jewel-Osco on Thursday. To shop via Jewel-Osco forU, I have to use the Brave browser, and to logon it sends a 6-digit verification code to an e-mail address, but it sends it. Food 4 Less does not usually acknowledge me, but it lets me select the store and go through its ad to compose a list. Then, the key is, when paying, I must remember to scan my shopper code widget {on my household keychain} at checkout and to input a 10-digit telephone number as the "AltID" on the payment keypad in order to get its preferred-member pricing. {In Chicago, I also would have to exclaim "no bags" before a checkout clerk rings them up.}

Dave148 wrote:

tjr wrote:No printed grocery ads in our Wednesday Tribune this week, hope that's not a trend.

Same here. I do know that they switched printing plants the other day.

Yesterday’s ads came in today’s paper. Life is good.

Here I go with the output from Wednesday's jaunt in the 1987 Chevrolet Sprint to Food 4 Less, Jewel-Osco, and a Citgo gas station @ Harlem & Armitage in Elmwood Park.

Oh - I should mention the Weekly Flyer showed up here today [Thursday]. This is another reason I loathe ranting anywhere. I came across really harshly. I mostly kept myself awake Wednesday night because my brain would not detach from what I expressed. I apologize again.

The 12-packs of 12-oz. cans of soda:

• 1 Minute Maid pink lemonade 23 Oct 24
• 2 Pepsi wild cherry 21 Oct 24*
• 1 Pepsi mango 26 Aug 24
• 1 Pepsi peach 16 Sep 24**
• 1 Pepsi lime 16 Sep 24**
• 1 Pepsi caffeine-free 13 Jan 25
• 1 Coca-Cola caffeine-free 6 Jan 25
• 1 Sprite chill 3 Feb 25
• 1 Crush peach 10 Feb 25
• 1 Dr. Pepper creamy coconut D4101
• 2 Pepsi-Cola real sugar 9 Dec 24
• 1 Crush orange 3 Feb 25
• 1 Starry lemon-lime 28 Oct 24
• 1 7-Up tropical C4072
• 1 Coca-Cola vanilla 13 Jan 25
• 1 Coca-Cola spiced 25 Nov 24
• 1 Coca-Cola cherry 9 Dec 24
• 1 Minute Maid lemonade 28 Oct 24

* = bought at both Food 4 Less and Jewel-Osco.
** = When is the LTHF picnic?


Also bought @ Food 4 Less was 2 Scott Pete beef polish sausage 20-oz. 7.98, 6 closeout fresh baked glazed donuts 2.02, 5 packages Kroger hot dog buns 4.95, Kroger raisin cinnamon bread 16-oz. 2.49, Little Debbie swiss rolls snack cakes 2.49, Little Debbie zebra cakes snack cakes 2.49.
The sole additional item bought @ Jewel-Osco was the Entenmann's chocolate donuts 8-pack B1G1F 6.59.
Yes, I am pretty well stocked for breakfast for the next five weeks.
Total spent = 50.46 + 50.90 = $101.36 {charged to the U.S. Bank Altitude Go Visa Signature credit card}

Week #109: Despite what you may have heard, I was not sunk last week.

The outer sheath is the Family Dollar advert (valid thru 1 June).

• Jewel-Osco
• Tony's Fresh Market
• Aldi
• Carniceria Jimenez
• Cermak Produce #2
• Cermak Fresh Market #18 & #16
• Centŕo Fresh Market
• Doordash 50% off [max $10.00] first-time users [code: 4cdlw3] [valid thru 30 June]
• Total by Verizon mobile phone service [iPhone SE]
• Menards

We also have the Jewel-Osco Latinx glossy sheet [valid thru 30 July]
I did not shop again after Wednesday. I concentrated on Illinois breweries for the ICBW 'Summer Passport' program. From Friday to Monday, I got to seven, but two of them do not officially count.(!)
Family Dollar has good deals on Coca-Cola 12-packs of 12-oz. cans $4.00 (digital- must buy 3- limit 12), or Dr. Pepper brands for $3.34 (digital- must buy 3- limit 12) {maybe it will have Cherry RC in stock}, Hershey's candy bars 4-packs 1.55-oz. for $4.00 (must buy 2), and 5½-oz. cans of 9-Lives wet cat food for 60¢ (must buy 10- limit 20). If you combine this with the Saturday-only digital savings pass [$5.00 on $25.00+ purchases], this is solid.

Otherwise, I am not viewing much. I will sternly point a finger at Tony's Fresh Market trying to get $6.99 for the 20-oz. Scott Pete beef polish sausage, of which you should have grabbed a half-dozen or more of for 3.99 last week at Food 4 Less. {I bought only two. I still have packages of hot dogs and sausages from the 2010s in the back porch freezer. I have many items I could bring to somebody's backyard barbecue if I was ever invited.} The less I scribe about what Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce 18-oz. is being offered for this week the better (99¢ was the price to pay, not 2.00 or 2.67 - EEK! ).

At Food 4 Less, it's what not to buy: Hot Pockets 12-packs and Stouffer's | Lean Cuisine are too expensive. If you didn't buy it last week at Angelo Caputo, Kroger's deli potato salad is a reasonable deal at 3-lbs. for $5.99; and the Little Debbie snack cakes continue @ $2.50. You could also purchase a 12-pack of 12-oz. containers of Miller High Life for $6.99.

Jewel-Osco has 24-packs of 12-oz. cans of Keurig Dr. Pepper brands for $7.99 (Saturday only - you're kept outside the store- must buy 2- limit unknown | contemplate fewer brands are in 24-packs versus 12-packs). Also outside only, that seems to be a good price for Scott 1000 bathroom tissue 12-packs for $5.00. There is a $50.00 off a $100.00+ order for this outside-only scheme if you're a new customer. [Code: cyber] Do not buy the Chex Mix | Bugles | Gardetto bags @ 1.99 - they were 99¢ a couple of weeks ago.

Tony's has large eggs for 99¢ (digital- limit 2), and 1-lb. butter for $1.99 (digital- limit 2).

When you do not get the actual paper flyer, looking at the Flipp adverts for stores like Tony's, Jewel-Osco, Butera, and Angelo Caputo is really tiring. You have to enlarge it twice, and use the arrow keys to the right of your keyboard to scroll through it. It is good that Jewel herds a lot of items into the price sector, but you can get weary of the fine print detailing the sizes of each item.
I choose the text color here as a respite from the online assault of dark gray text on an off-white background. World-Wide Web designers realize this when they offer you a choice of a 'light' or a 'dark' background. If you select the dark setting, please inform me. There are a much lower shade numbers which can adapt to both.
Do they think people instantly discard the previous week's advert? If the item is no longer on 'sale', leave it out of the advert. Do not take up space in the advert showing a higher price than the previous week.
I will delve into what NFriday's friend remarked about not registering for Jewel's "forU" scheme. I am very aware of how you are tracked, both online and in the real world. I stay out of onerous traps like facebook. {My compound noun for it is "Dungheap".} In Jewel's situation, her friend who is not participating in "forU" is still being tracked when she shops at Jewel. Even if she pays with cash. Her checkout data is transmitted back to headquarters. There unquestionably is a percentage counter of how many people paid the "forU" price and how many did not. Yes, Albertsons wants everybody to participate in it, because they are easier to track and send directed advertisements to. Ultimately, it boils down to "How disciplined are you?" Do you recognize a good targeted ad from a lousy one, and buy only the product which you need? Notice that I do not shop for groceries every week. I lucidly keep track of what is being offered each week, but I only buy when the price is what I perceive to be its lowest. Such as last week. I posted my receipts. Did you observe the amounts I saved thru the affinity programs? $66.53 and 79.00. I truthfully do not mind being tracked for how much money I saved. In the universe of shoppers, I am probably as rare as hen's teeth. But I want you to be like me. This is the core reason I keep compiling the sale adverts each week.
I suspect what really teed me off last week was buying the hot dog buns for 99¢ (digital) at Food 4 Less, and getting the Aldi advert the next day in which under a header of "Unbeatable prices.", it displayed a price of $1.29 for the exact same item. That is not "unbeatable". That is you (Aldi) being thrashed by thirty cents! Just who are you winning the war on lower prices against; that you pushed them over again for the seventh straight year? 7-Eleven, Quik Trip, Speedway, Thornton's, Casey's?

This is what was delivered this week to 60641.

ekreider wrote:Vericast switched to doing their own printing and assembling the weekly flyers several weeks ago. The bundles are then shipped to a Tribune facility which inserts them in the papers. Changing the location of the Tribune facilities this week may well have caused some problems. Since Vericast took over the printing and part of the distribution I received a bundle for the wrong zone twice.

The proper bundle was in my Tribune today.

Didn’t get any flyers with today’s paper.

Dave, maybe we got yours. One batch bagged with the Tribune, one larger batch in the US mail.

tjr wrote:Dave, maybe we got yours. One batch bagged with the Tribune, one larger batch in the US mail.

Looks like you did. Nothing in today's paper.

I am contemplating a new revision of my summaries of the sale items in the Weekly Flyer.
It could involve a Table, but BBCode does not seem to offer a Table parameter. The Table would have the foodstuff in a row on the left, and its price in a column. ~Something like this~
F4L Tony's Jewel Aldi
Soda 12-pack 12-oz. cans 3.99* 5.99 8.99% 5.99
Bologna 16-oz. 2.19 2.09 2.29 1.79
Lean Cuisine entrees 2.00^ 2.29 2.49* n|a
Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce 1.99 1.89 1.49* n|a
* = digital; % = Buy 1, get 1 free; ^ = in a group of must buy at least 5
But since I didn't summarize this week's offerings, I'll substitute what is currently in the freezer on the back porch here at the abode. Yes, there are the hot dog buns which were thirty cents cheaper at Food 4 Less versus Aldi {and Aldi is still boasting that 1.29 is a 'sale' price for it}.

Hi,

Is that the Aldi bologna?

Your freezer is well organized. Mine is a little chaotic compared to yours. It is two people who interact with varying opinions on where stuff should go.

Regards,
Cathy2

That looks like the same Monkey Wards ca 1993 deep freeze that we have. Except ours is rammed to the max with pub burgers, extra spices, etc.

I really like the table idea. Could even be a 3D table with the 3rd dimension being the weeks, making for comparisons over time.

Looks like bad news on the cherry front: Most places are higher than $1.99 this week. Just as I found out how good the frozen turkey breast at Butera is, the price went up from 99¢ to $1.29. Likely to come back down, tho. My one real highlight this week is mini cheese horns at Shop&Save for $2.99/lb.

Week #112: Are you ready for this?

Outer sheath: E, X, O, 5.
5 = car donation program

Here I go with a new format for this intelligence. The package now arrives here on Wednesday afternoon. I have lots of sheets of blank paper, including some which have been cut down from 8½" × 11" sheets. What would assist is graph paper, of which I do not have.

[table]
[tr]
[th] [/th] [th] Tony's [/th] [th] Jewel [/th] [th] Family $ [/th] [th] Jimenez [/th] [th] Centŕo [/th] [th] Aldi [/th] [th] Food4Less [/th] [/tr]
[tr] [th] Soda 12-pack 12-oz. cans [/th] [th] 5.00@d [/th] [th] 5.99 [/th] [th] 4.33d [/th] [th] 7.00@ [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [/tr]
[tr] [th]Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce 28-oz.[/th] [th] 2.99 [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] 2.50 [/th] [th] 2.50 [/th] [th] [/th] [th] 2.00 [/th] [/tr]
[tr] [th]Scott Pete polish sausage 20-oz.[/th] [th] 3.99? [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] 4.99? [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] 3.99! [/th] [/tr]
[tr][th] PowerAde 28-oz. [/th] [th] .79 [/th] [th] .99d [/th] [th] 1.00 [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [/tr]
[tr][th] MinuteMaid drinks 59-oz. [/th] [th] .99d-limit 2 [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] 2.00 [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [/tr]
[tr][th] Johnsonville sausage 19-oz. [/th] [th] 4.00 [/th] [th] 4.99 [/th] [th] [/th] [th] 4.99 [/th] [th] [/th] [th]2.99~ [/th] [th] [/th] [/tr]
[tr][th] deli packaged salads 46-oz. [/th] [th] 4.99 [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] 8.07~# [/th] [th] [/th] [/tr]
[tr][th]local brand sausages: [/th][/tr] [tr][th]Vienna 12-oz.[8] [/th] [th] 3.99[/th] [th] 9.99& [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [/tr]
[tr] [th]Klementz's 14-oz.[5] [/th] [th] 3.99 [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [/tr]
[tr] [th]Ogden Foods 16-oz.[5] [/th] [th] 3.50 [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [/tr]
[tr] [th]El Ranchero tortilla chips 14-oz. [/th] [th] 1.99 [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] 3.00 [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [/tr]
[tr] [th]Scott 1000 toilet paper 20-rolls [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] ??d [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [th] [/th] [/tr] [/table]
d = digital | @ = item is 24-pack ÷ 2 | ? = beef price undenoted, ! = beef price 4.99 | ~ = store brand , # = 16-oz. package x 3 | & = price deduced by adding back the amount 'saved' when purchased along with a Goose Island beer 12-pack - forget the beer; buy this @ Tony's | ?? = price undenoted, digital coupon for 1.00 off

Food 4 Less was obviously investigated via Flipp. I browsed Angelo Caputo and Butera's adverts (The $2.50 for Lean Cuisine select entrees @ Angelo Caputo is 50¢ too much.), but viewed nothing worth annotating on this table.

It is surprising that Tony's Fresh Market was undercut by both Jimenez and Centŕo on the Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce 28-oz., but you should not pay more than 99¢ for this item anywhere.
The last time the Scott Pete polish sausage was on sale at Food 4 Less for 3.99, beef was included. I hope you bought a lot of packages then. This week, it wants an additional dollar for that.
Nobody has 12-packs of soda 12-oz. cans for $3.99 this week, so you shouldn't buy that.

If there are other foodstuffs I should put into this table, please inform me. The table will grow: I remain receptive to buying Smart Ones and Michelina's frozen entrees, but no store mentioned them this week.
This is what was delivered this week to 60641.

Yes, that is the Aldi bologna. I bought the White Castle hamburgers 16-packs and the Scott 1000 tissue 20-rolls @ Jewel (and eight JJ Pies which, at 79¢, is cheaper than Aldi, and Aldi always has only the apple ones remnant after other shoppers have picked out all the cherry ones.). On Monday, I bought two 8-packs of Jimmy Dean breakfast croissant sandwiches @ Tony's.
This table should have worked in BBCode. I'll let a moderator inquire why it did not. Perhaps it merely needs to be implemented.

Yeah, looks like [table] isn't implemented here. I thought maybe the missing [td]s vs [th]s were the problem, tested and they're not.

Butera highlights: 99¢ little tubs of Hillshire ham and turkey, appears to be thin honey ham from the pic; and $4.99 2 pounders of tired (expired 6 weeks ago) Ball Park franks.

Shop&Save: $2.99 brick & muenster. S&S continues its recent cheese dominance.

KD produce: 50¢ Boston lettuce and mini pepper bags, 99¢ apricots. Maka tortowa $1.79/kg (in the good ol' prewar days this was 99¢, but it's still a deal on cake flour.) Greenridge Havarti $5.99, not all that cheap but a decent cheese.

Lewis: Prime picanha $7.99.

Jerry's: I went today for the Wed-Thurs produce specials, nowhere near as zany as would expect. No plants yet this year

tjr wrote:Jerry's: I went today for the Wed-Thurs produce specials, nowhere near as zany as would expect. No plants yet this year

There were plants last weekend.

I looked at the website and did not see Wed-Thurs specials. Last week it was raspberries and blueberries for 50 cents a container, I bought a dozen of each. What was it this week, because it was not on their website?

Regards,
Cathy2

Cathy2 wrote:There were plants last weekend.

I looked at the website and did not see Wed-Thurs specials. Last week it was raspberries and blueberries for 50 cents a container, I bought a dozen of each. What was it this week, because it was not on their website?

Darn, sad to miss the plants - last year there were big racks of cheap fun ones that looked like closeouts from fancy garden centers. Maybe they'll get more...

2 day specials were on a banner ad, I think, that they probably took off on Thursday night. Blueberries and blackberries 50¢, cherries $1.99. I got blueberries (fine) and cherries (Washington, ok, a few soft ones, not nearly as good as Butera's $1.99 California cherries a couple weeks ago.) There was also a bunch of random unadvertised stuff: Some football-shaped yellow melons for $1.50 (have one ripening now), Passover matzo $5/5lb, Syrian spice packets (no ingredient list) 79¢, white and yellow peaches 79¢, etc etc.

Week #113: Still experimenting.

I will only refer to the outer sheath if a page (usually page 2) if it has fast food coupons. Otherwise, they are all horrible deals trying to intimidate you into giving them a lot of your money. Again, again, if you are going to invest in a commodity, and gold coins are a commodity, establish a clientele with a registered financial counselor.

Here I go with a new format for this intelligence. The package now arrives here on Wednesday afternoon.

[table]
[tr]
[td] [/td]
[td] Food4Less [/td]
[td] Tony's [/td]
[td] Jewel [/td]
[td] Aldi [/td]
[td] Family $ [/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Soda 12-pack 12-oz. cans [/td]
[td] [/td]
[td] 4.99d** [/td]
[td] 3.99d* [/td]
[td] [/td]
[td] [/td] [/tr]
[tr]
[td]Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce 18-oz.[/td]
[td] [/td]
[td]99¢[/td]
[td] [/td]
[td] [/td]
[td] [/td] [/tr]
[tr]
[td]Vienna 12-oz. franks [8] [/td]
[td] [/td]
[td] 3.99 [/td]
[td] [/td]
[td] [/td]
[td] [/td] [/tr]
[tr]
[td]Johnsonville 12-oz. sausage[/td]
[td] [/td]
[td] 3.99 [/td]
[td] [/td]
[td] [/td]
[td] [/td] [/tr]
[/table]
d = digital | * = must buy 4, limit 4 | ** = must buy 4, limit 8

I saw nothing worth buying at Food 4 Less [| Mariano's] this week.
Aldi was its usual array of fruits and vegetables, but the price for the peanut butter bars is a gouge when you can obtain the same item at Dollar25Tree for 1.25, and probably was made in the same factory. No computer appeared in the Aldi ad. That might appear in its "Back to School" advert, which should be released next week.
Angelo Caputo was browsed via Flipp. {Butera missed the cut.}

Notice that Jewel encourages you to "stock your bullpen" on items which are "shelf turds", but won't let you do the same for the items you really should stockpile at a specific sale price?

Tha package had six coupons for Culver's (valid thru 12 August).
Angelo Caputo has SunMaid raisin bread 16-oz. $2.99.

Tony's has a new 'game' in which if you buy its "shelf turds", it will give you a scratch-off coupon for something you could actually use, that is - if it's a winning ticket. Odds on you getting a winning ticket? That's buried somewhere on its W-WW page. It is essentially a gamble; but it seems like everybody nowadays wants to turn you into a gambler.

If there are otder foodstuffs I should put into this table, please inform me. The table will grow: This shows how a table is possible.
I literally cut-&-pasted the example from this W-WW site, but it could be this version of BBCode is not implemented here.

This is what was delivered this week to 60641.

Is the canned soda at $3.99 a worthy price?

Cathy2 wrote:Is the canned soda at $3.99 a worthy price?

Cathy, yes it is. It is for all packagers of soda; but you are limited to four 12-packs at this price. Notice how this is not under the "Stock your Bullpen" rubric?
Really, would Pepsi object to you paying 3.99 for four 12-packs of its soda just because you depleted the 4 limit on 12-packs of Coca-Cola? But, no, the forU program is going to charge more for every 12-pack after the first four.

I don't know if it's just me, but the table doesn't show up. Thanks for trying to do it differently, pudgy!