In store Secrets.

Welcome back my Nifty Buddies! I hope you have all been saving a sufficient amount of money during your shopping adventures. Today I am going to help you understand how to use your stores to your advantage! Here I will be breaking down Safeway and Walgreens. Hopefully you have these stores available in your area. If not, I do apologize and hope some of these tips are relevant to your local grocery and drug stores.

Safeway makes it VERY easy for you to coupon. They offer the Just4U program which I am in LOVE with. As long as you have a Safeway Club card, you can use this program. Register your card online and you are good to go. In fact, you get a 12 pack of eggs for FREE just for registering your card. How can you turn that down?

Basically, your loading coupons to your card so you can avoid having to organize your coupon book. Unfortunately, it does take some of the fun out of clipping coupons. But if your wrists hurt like mine, sometimes its a relief. They offer a lot of coupons that are available for print online, or in the Sunday inserts and then plus some other manufacture coupons.. You just click the ones you want, and it loads straight to your card and it takes off the coupon amount when you slide your card or enter your phone number.

Now my favorite part about Just4U is the personalized deals!!! The more you use your card, the more coupons that are created for you. These are store coupons which are available ONLY online for Just4U users. For example: I buy a lot of bacon. Hormel's black label bacon is regularly priced around $8. Just4U creates a coupon for you so you only end up paying $3.38 for the bacon, saving you $5!!

Always check back because it will randomly offer you free items with a minimum $10 purchase. I have been offered free water, pasta, frozen entrees, dog food, and more. But don't think that you can trick the system and use two manufacture coupons for the same item, one on your card, and one clipped paper coupon. You can use both, but it will only take off the bigger discount and the cashier won't always give you back the one that wasn't used. 

Walgreens now offers Mobile coupons which you can combine with manufacture. It is a brand new service and is plenty of fun. Simply download the App for your smartphone and it will even text you when there is a new coupon. You simply let the cashier scan the bar code presented on your phone. Walgreens new ad designs now have QR codes which you can scan with the Walgreens App bar code scanner for more offers for certain presented sale items in that weeks ads. I am sure you have noticed that there is not as many items on the weekly ads. That's because you need to scan the QR code to see what else is on sale.

Another awesome saving feature is online at www.walgreens.com. It is called Web Pick Up. Simply scroll down to the bottom of the webpage and click on web pick up, because it is different then just shopping online. Shopping online is for shipped items. Web Pick Up is simply you shopping at home, the employees do the shopping for you in store and some stores even deliver curb side delivery.

Simply sign up online for Walgreens and get ready to have some fun! These is great for the impulse buyer like me, you can avoid all the other items you do not need! Select your desired location and start shopping. All sale items that do NOT require a store coupon will already have the discount price listed in red below the item. There are always online coupons to use to bring down your total.

For your first Web Pickup order, you can save $5 off of a $20 order. If you are a Walgreens employee, it has to be $20 AFTER your employee discount to get the coupon. There are always new coupons available. Even $10 off $30 or more. But do not worry, you can still use store and manufacture coupons. Simply go to your Walgreens Photo Department and ask for your web pick up. After they scan your ticket and the online code is discounted, hand them your other coupons, and watch the price drop!

Not only do you get that extra $5-$10 discount, but you can avoid the lines and running into a possible out of stock item. This is especially great for the working mom on the go who does not have time to shop. Also don't forget to check out the photo deals. There is always offers for prints, and sometimes you can get 25 FREE 4x6 prints no purchase necessary.

Always check around the stores, there are manufacture coupons presented around the store so keep an eye out. Plus there is store coupon books other then the monthly available in Walgreens Cosmetics or Pharmacy departments. Safeway also has coupon books but go very quickly, check around the customer service counters for those.

This once again concludes some of my Nifty tips. Hope this information was helpful. Feel free to leave comments and let me know if you have any questions or if my tips are helping you! Id love to know. Thanks again friends, and stay Nifty!