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Anyone that worksout at home will absolutely LOVE this! Such a great all-over workout.
Good luck and I hope you enjoy it.
OMG..Thank You. That is the one that we have been wanting to get. The nunchuck/wiimote cord will about hang you with the older active game LOL. Especially with those squat and reach excersises. My TRU is about 45 min away but IS right across from Target! I think I will go try to get one.
l2b- you were too nice yesterday in deals. i had half a mind to mod-alert it, it was just so wrong on so many levels. i really considered it for a couple seconds. i also considered saying something similar to you, but i was afraid to be too blatant about it.
i was trying to be subtle but i know that person wouldn't get it b/c their thinking started from a totally opposite position. i also think that person just wants to buy the one thing and only the one thing, instead of incorporating it into a run and afraid any advice would all just fall on deaf ears b/c their core thinking was just so wrong.
how can you have couponed for 2 years and still not understand the hows and whys of couponing? that person was not a newbie at all.
would have been way too much effort to re-educate them and really wanted to say yes, you are wrong, and blast away. too bad there was a successful s&g'er posting at the same time. i just had to say something. i just could not resist. b/c i toned it down so much, it ended up being way to vague for that person to get it.
l2b- you were too nice yesterday in deals. i had half a mind to mod-alert it, it was just so wrong on so many levels. i really considered it for a couple seconds. i also considered saying something similar to you, but i was afraid to be too blatant about it.
i was trying to be subtle but i know that person wouldn't get it b/c their thinking started from a totally opposite position. i also think that person just wants to buy the one thing and only the one thing, instead of incorporating it into a run and afraid any advice would all just fall on deaf ears b/c their core thinking was just so wrong.
how can you have couponed for 2 years and still not understand the hows and whys of couponing? that person was not a newbie at all.
would have been way too much effort to re-educate them and really wanted to say yes, you are wrong, and blast away. too bad there was a successful s&g'er posting at the same time. i just had to say something. i just could not resist. b/c i toned it down so much, it ended up being way to vague for that person to get it.
I think it is possible for some people to have been couponing awhile and still not get all of the ins and outs.. I have taught about 10 people from church now, and they still call and ask me questions all the time.. Overage is a very difficult concept for many of them to get. Typically it comes into play when I am helping them work target or publix deals. Many of them can't seem to wrap their mind around the fact that they won't get money back, but can get it to apply to other things in the order.
I felt like the poster couldn't seem to understand that moderation is more the key in these type of things..I do agree with what the OP said.. If target is gonna get 1.50 for each of those coupons, I should too.. Therefore, if they won't accept mine for full amount, then I keep them and try again. When I have been refused at publix before, they have let me get multiples of the item.. Like when the poster said they wanted to get 2 cans of food for each coupon so that the price wouldn't exceed the coupon value.. I have been allowed to do that many times. So, while the post was a touch aggravating, and did seem like they needed a lesson on using coupons in smaller numbers and more ninja style, I did understand some of the frustration, and have dealt with alot of the same questions/issues with other people I have taught
I have had my coffee this morning and am ready for another, but think I should go to water instead
Hope everyone has a nice Valentine's Day! Of course DH is working as today is probably the busiest day at his restaurant besides Mother's Day. So hopefully we will get to do something mid-week.
2 STFC runs in back to back days. Probably need to take a day or two off...Can't think of anything special I bought to share...got a couple GCs for the Puffs deal.
Also, in case you all didnt know, there was a new Rx coupon in yesterday's ad.
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I think it is possible for some people to have been couponing awhile and still not get all of the ins and outs.. I have taught about 10 people from church now, and they still call and ask me questions all the time.. Overage is a very difficult concept for many of them to get. Typically it comes into play when I am helping them work target or publix deals. Many of them can't seem to wrap their mind around the fact that they won't get money back, but can get it to apply to other things in the order.
I felt like the poster couldn't seem to understand that moderation is more the key in these type of things..I do agree with what the OP said.. If target is gonna get 1.50 for each of those coupons, I should too.. Therefore, if they won't accept mine for full amount, then I keep them and try again. When I have been refused at publix before, they have let me get multiples of the item.. Like when the poster said they wanted to get 2 cans of food for each coupon so that the price wouldn't exceed the coupon value.. I have been allowed to do that many times. So, while the post was a touch aggravating, and did seem like they needed a lesson on using coupons in smaller numbers and more ninja style, I did understand some of the frustration, and have dealt with alot of the same questions/issues with other people I have taught
I have had my coffee this morning and am ready for another, but think I should go to water instead
same for manufacturers. they cannot check that each and every coupon they reimburse is for the correct item, that the item was even actually sold. i can tell you for a fact that there are retailers out there that just cut out coupons and turn them in for reimbursement w/o having sold anything for that coupon. so the penalty can be severe to prevent it. i heard 3rd-hand a mom and pop store was fined millions of dollars for coupon fraud a few yrs ago. mfr's do periodic audits where retailers have to show their invoices that they actually bought the item from the manufacturer. basically spot-checking. that is how HP discovered target never, ever carried the paper for the 3.00mq a few years ago. but just think how many misused or fraudulent coupon go thru daily. so mfrs have losses too. unintentional overage would be a loss to them too.
i'm sure both retailers and mfr's have calculated a percentage loss for coupons and it's part of doing business. they probably also see that any incidental money from adjusting a coupon down just goes towards decreasing that loss from coupons that are rejected for redemption.
as for the 8 cents handling retailers get, believe me, they have to do a lot of work for those 8 cents. if it's done manually, somebody has to sit there and separate all the q's by amount, count them all, fill out the forms and mail it to the clearing house. believe me, i used to close cash registers and just counting money takes hours and hours. can you imagine sitting there separating all those little bits of paper that's all different sizes, some for .50/1, .50/2, .50/10 etc. somebody has to pay the clearinghouse to go thru all the coupons to make sure they are all valid and write out a check. if it's done electronically, the software costs lots and lots of money. programmers are not cheap at all, so that's why targets pos system is so screwy. equipment is very expensive.
so it's a difference in perception. the consumer sees it as my coupon is for 1.50, i should get 1.50 of product.
the retailer is seeing that they accepted say, for instance $3000.00 in q's in one day for one store. i'm sure supermarkets get way more than that daily. a certain percentage of them is going to be a total loss, not only from the the $ amt lost, also the labor involved in taking coupons, sending in the coupons, the labor involved to comply with audits to continue to accept coupons, etc. so all those coupons are not really worth 3000.00 to them. even at 1%, they've lost 30.00 plus the .08 handling fee for each coupon rejected. i'm sure they see that adjusting a few coupons down just helps make up for money they inevitably lose for accepting coupons in the first place. when they look at coupons, it is not worth the actual face amount to them. there is always some loss involved.
when margins are very, very slim you can see why some retailers just won't accept coupons at all, like dollar tree.
And that is technically a logical thought process BUT....it is Target's right to simply say that they are no longer going to accept mq's above the value of the item if it becomes that big of a pain for them. We don't want to see that happen....therefore we suck it up and if we get it fine, if we don't fine so that it doesn't go away
At some point you just realize the second part of that and move on but I can understand how it takes a bit to come to that point.
And that is technically a logical thought process BUT....it is Target's right to simply say that they are no longer going to accept mq's above the value of the item if it becomes that big of a pain for them. We don't want to see that happen....therefore we suck it up and if we get it fine, if we don't fine so that it doesn't go away
At some point you just realize the second part of that and move on but I can understand how it takes a bit to come to that point.
Oh good, glad you ended up cooking them
Lemon peppered them, made a cream reduction with dill weed, and yummmmm.... Maybe not all of it's going to go back into the freezer now. Might be supper too.
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