How much do you save on your shopping using coupons?

COOLTRIKERCHICK

my supermarket will except any amount of one vouchers....i also hand over a pile and ask which ones they can take, so the ball is in their court..when it comes to excepting them....my last shopping bil came to £50.00 and they took off £22.65 worth of coupons......i tend to shop 2 or 3 times a week now, rather than do one big shop....i never use vouchers that i know are for other stores....
i think our store is more layed back when it comes to vouchers because there are quite alot of supermarkets with in a small radius .. there are 5 tescos...1 asda....1 morrisons....loads of lidles 2 somerfields and a few co-ops....so compition is quite high.....and i know the supermarket that i go to had a slow start when it opened 18 months ago...so maybe thats why they accept multiples of the same voucher.....
but i am finding it very hard now to get vouchers.....and i have noticed the prices on ebay are creeping up......

carlyh69

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote:

my supermarket will except any amount of one vouchers....i also hand over a pile and ask which ones they can take, so the ball is in their court..when it comes to excepting them....my last shopping bil came to £50.00 and they took off £22.65 worth of coupons......i tend to shop 2 or 3 times a week now, rather than do one big shop....i never use vouchers that i know are for other stores....
i think our store is more layed back when it comes to vouchers because there are quite alot of supermarkets with in a small radius .. there are 5 tescos...1 asda....1 morrisons....loads of lidles 2 somerfields and a few co-ops....so compition is quite high.....and i know the supermarket that i go to had a slow start when it opened 18 months ago...so maybe thats why they accept multiples of the same voucher.....
but i am finding it very hard now to get vouchers.....and i have noticed the prices on ebay are creeping up......

i know that companies do slack off when theres a lot of competition, about 18 months ago a Tesco opened about 5 minutes away from my ASDA store, and for a limited time we accepted tescos store vouchers (you know the kind, £5 off a £40 shop kind of ones). Like you say its up to each store and what their GSM's opinion is on coupons. The GSM at my store adopted a policy of 10% of the shopping bill if they had not bought the product which i think is fair. We also as a goodwill deduct car parking as our customers have to pay as its a council car park. I think thats really good too.

carlyh69

Coupon-mad wrote:

Hi, I hope this previous post will help (from Rambler):

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P.S. It's a bit much for an Asda employee to say that too much coupon usage is wrong, when SOME branches of Asda accept ANY amount off your shopping! At Waitrose it's the national policy to accept any manufacturers' coupons that they stock the item for, in any multiple!

I didnt say all branches wouldnt accept unlimited coupons, its at the GSM's discretion. Alls i said was OUR store would only accept 10% if you had not bought the product. P.S the prices Waitrose charge, they need to accept unlimited coupons for people to shop there! LOL

carlyh69

Ok, after reading this, i'm going to set myself a challenge and see how much i can save on the weekly shop with coupons, lol do you think with knowing the people scanning my stuff they'd accept more than any other customer?

pondie1

the most i have used at one time was £10 off £59 shop in asda,i use about £4.50 a week,today on a £63 spend

F&L

carlyh69 wrote:

the prices Waitrose charge, they need to accept unlimited coupons for people to shop there! LOL

Ho ho you're not wrong there!

I've only ever been in Waitrose twice and both times they took my coupons but I didn't get an answer as to what their coupon policy was. I had a "dunno" from two youngsters. Is it definitely true that they'll take unlimited amounts? Can anyone who shops in Waitrose advise please?

Coupon-mad

F&L wrote:

I've only ever been in Waitrose twice and both times they took my coupons but I didn't get an answer as to what their coupon policy was. I had a "dunno" from two youngsters. Is it definitely true that they'll take unlimited amounts? Can anyone who shops in Waitrose advise please?

Here's a recent post, hope the link works:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=2299882&postcount=5

Yes, other Waitrose shoppers have confirmed before but I don't have another link, I first saw it when 'lurking' as a newbie and reading old posts...

sara2323

I find that all my local Tesco and ASDA stores only accept 10% if I have'nt bought the product (Sainsburys don't accept any if I haven't bought the product)
Even then sometimes a supervisor is called over, the most I've used is a £3 voucher of £20+ shop!
I still continue to use them though, I find coupons to the value of 50p and £1 are best.

koupon-kween

Thanks for the above tip about the Nice 'n Easy vouchers as I picked up quite a few in Superdrug last week & was disappointed when one wasn't accepted at Tesco on Monday so will try Sainsbury instead.
I was just emptying my purse of receipts today to check against bank statement & jotted down coupon savings at Tesco for the last few weeks. I am now splitting my shopping into 2 lots at the checkout so I can give in 3 coupons for each load (they are strict here). The £1 or more one's are brilliant if you can find them, like the First Defence cold spray & the £1.99 off a magazine that ran in the Times the other week over several days (used 3 of these - fab!) From 18th of May to 7th of June I have saved £33.63 :-)

Coupon-mad

Today I needed to buy a few bits (milk, bread etc.) and being on a mission to build up Tesco Clubcard points (and use up coupons of course!) I popped into a local newish Tesco.

It's not my first choice of branch as the till staff are particularly miserable and the coupon policy has been confirmed to me (upon polite, up-front, enquiry) as 3 per transaction if not buying the product. But had no time to drive further afield...

Lucky I only spent just over £20 (minus a Sainsbury's £2 off £20 voucher) because the girl said 'only one coupon'. :eek: She had it confirmed by her friend on the next till, then - lol - over comes some spotty supervisor boy.

He says the same as 'tiller girl'. Well I'm never after an argument, so I say 'OK but you know your CS has told me it's 3 coupons in this store' and he says 'no it's been one coupon for months.....because Tesco cannot get the money back on coupons any more'!!

Must admit I laughed a bit...I guess his Manager told him that and he believed it!! I managed to reply that that is absolutely not true with manufacturers' coupons, in fact Tesco makes a small handling fee on each one, but he'd wandered off to 'help' someone else by then.

There was a queue building up so I handed over just one of the three '£2 off nappies' coupons I was holding, to the unsmiling girl cashier and vowed not to bother to go there again - they are all so unfriendly - it just doesn't have that feel-good factor!

I will try to make time to drive to the friendlier, bigger Tesco every time in future (I even found a FEMALE cashier who scanned all my money off vouchers there the other evening, and she wasn't a new wet-behind-the-ears cashier either as I heard her saying how many years she'd worked there....and she was happy and friendly too!).:o