Makes me wish the still had Green Stamps. At least the kids had fun with them licking and sticking in the booklets.
Well…in a way, they still do. You don’t get actual stamps anymore, but IIRC you get “points” that accumulate on…you guessed it, your store loyalty card. 
In my area, all cards are tiny and are hole punched to fit on your key chain, or you can punch in your telephone number at the terminal.
I thought it was the one in the Shaw’s Powerhouse plaza, near Ninety-Nine Restaurant, the one with the car wash? Across from the Mobil (that may now be an Irving?). The one that says “Sandri”.
Sorry, that’s what I meant. Locally, there’s only one station. I know that’s not Price Chopper’s fault!
Let me introduce you to the wonderful world of Mailinator.com
When asked for an email address, make up anything @mailinator.com. No need to register that address first.
Mailinator will accept the email and hold the email for a short time (I don’t know how long that is)
If you need to access that email, like having to activate something, you go to mailinator.com, enter the name you used, and read the mail.
Notes: There is no password to read stuff sent to mailinator.com addresses. Anyone can read it, if they can guess the name you used. You can not send email from a mailinator.com address, not even to forward it. It’s strickly a holding bin.
Thanks to my Kroger card I haven’t paid a cell phone bill in three months.
Kroger has that preselect thing too but mine doesn’t work for some reason.
Ah, OK. I think we actually missed that one. Thanks.
I was at a Kroeger in Indiana, and my phone number worked. Kroeger bought Fred Meyer, which is what I use where I live in Oregon.
I did this with Dominoes just a couple of days ago. I always call in my order for pickup and the owner automatically applies the coupon, But this time the new clerk told me a higher price. I told her I always got the lower price but she wouldn’t budge. So I went online and printed the coupon before I came in. She backed out the order and resubmitted it with the coupon key and handed me back the coupon. I have no idea how that works.
Coupons can save you a significant amount of money, if you know what to purchase. There are hundreds of blogs that list the deals each week. For example, here are some free/cheap products at Safeway this week:
•Fresh Express garden salads, shreds and spinach ($1): use $1 off any “blends” = FREE - coupons are on display in produce in a small cardboard box.
•Campbell’s Tomato and Chicken noodle soups (.50 cents each): use $1 off 2 HERE= FREE
•Safeway Filone small Artisan dinner bread ($1.29): use $1 off HERE = .29 cents
•Suave hair care (.88 cents): use $1 off 2 from 9/13 Red Plum = .38 cents each
•Aquafresh toothpaste (.88 cents): - the recent insert coupons .50 cents off one are for “premium” toothpaste - = .38 cents
Ahhhh Dominoes. They try to have a 2-tiered pricing system but they don’t embrace it. I still remember having a discussion with the owner/manager of a Dominoes who proceeded to explain to me that using a 2 for 1 coupon would cost me more than just buying 2 pizzas without the coupon…and he discussed this without a shred of shame.
Maybe Dominoes has gotten better with the 2-tier, but they didn’t really understand it. They seemed to look at a sale of the lower tier price as ‘losing money’. Yes…you make less money with a lower tier sale but the point is to get the sale at a lower profit without compromising (much) sales at a higher tier. That just went beyond them and, instead, they looked like crooks/insane.
Maybe they’ve gotten better in the last few years 
People will get all morally uprighteous/pissed off if they find out you have a 2-tier system (look at what happened to Amazon a few years back when it was discovered they based price of books on your zip code). You need to be consistent/sneaky about it, unlike what Dominoes did to me which caused them to lose a customer for, well, I’ve never been back and its been 15 years.
So, you need to be sneaky. Children/Senior Citizen discounts. Ever-present coupons, volume discounts and so on.
However, automatically giving the lower price over the phone is making it too easy for you to get the lower price. So, the last cashier you talked about was doing it correctly
This is killing me.
Why is it a spoiler that Kroger and Ralph’s cards work together?
And same goes for Albertson’s and Shaw’s?
If you hadn’t put the spoiler in there would somebody really complain: “Awe man! you spoiled it for me!! I didn’t want to know that!” 
Jus’ say’n.
Krogers and probably most other stores accept your phone number as input so I use that in place of the card.
A good system looks at your purchase record and prints out coupons tailored to you on the back of your register receipt.
That’s a good strategy. Many of the best savings can be found in store brands. The problem is discovery. Sometimes the cheapist brands are great, sometimes they are below one’s expectations.
If I have a gripe, it’s that they don’t use the information gathered to it’s fullest potential. I have driven to different Kroger stores looking for items that were shifted away or eliminated. There seems to be a disconnect between the idea of a good selection and “super stores”. I’m utterly amazed that a company would double it’s square footage but fill it with twice as much of half the selection they use to carry. Dumbasses.
Dear marketing team: It’s really cute that you built a cheese bar at the expense of the tea I like But why in the name of all that is Holy would you carry 4 different versions of Earl Grey and no version of Lapsang Souchong? Selection is a big draw in getting customers in the door. If I have to go to another store to buy “X” then you can be sure other items were purchased.