Coupon Boot Camp: Lesson 2 Understanding Coupons

It's 5am and the alarm is going off on my Blackberry....(Beep, beep, beep,beep)

Can I just share with you that the alarm was my email alert, letting me know that my favorite grocery store ad has hit my inbox....... Wait before I make the mad dash to the store, I need to figure out how the coupons work.


Locally  there are two major grocery stores that double coupons everyday with a limit of up to 20 coupons per customer.  They will double the face value of the coupon up to .99

Double Coupon Example:
(Let's say you want to buy some cake frosting, the frosting is on sale for $1.50, you have a coupon for .50 (your coupon will be doubled making it worth $1.00)

Cake Frosting $1.50-$1.00 (coupon) your total price for the frosting is .50

Here's another example a bag of rice is on sale for $1.19 you have a coupon for .55(that coupon doubled is worth 1.10) You will pay .09


There are plenty of items that you can get for free, for instance, today I received a Gatorade G2 for .00
The Gatorade was on sale for .99, I had a .50 coupon(doubled it would have been 1.00)
*please note that most grocery stores computers will not allow the coupon value to exceed the sales price, so instead of the coupon doubling for $1.00 and they would have owed me .01, the register adjusted the coupon and it entered as .99, no complaints it was still FREE

Now that was just double coupons, we haven't started our dialogue about Super Double or Triple Coupons......

Remember when we were younger and we wanted to know all of the cool words?  Ha! In the coupon world there is some lingo that you may want to know.


Just like our double coupons, some stores will triple the face value of a coupon up to .99 (some restrictions will apply and these will happen in cycles, not everyday like the double, you will need to watch for these)

The main grocery store in my area that triples coupons on a consistent basis is Harris Teeter

Triple Coupon Example:

Your coupon is for .75 the grocery store will double it making it worth a whopping 2.25
Nabisco 100 pk calorie is on sale for 2.50 with your .75 coupon (tripled to 2.25) your total price would be .25

Super Double Coupon Example:
Super double coupons have the same restrictions depending on the store, here is the major difference 
A super double, is a coupon with a face value of up to 1.98 and the grocery store doubles it
Jimmy Dean Sausage is on sale for 2.99, you have a 1.00 coupon now let's double that coupon to make it worth 2.00 you will pay .99 for a roll of sausage.

Here's the difference between Super Double and Double. On Super Double coupons the face value of the coupon is over .99.  Remember double is up to .99 , Super Double are your coupons that are over $1.00 but they do not exceed $1.98

Take a break and get a sip of water, until next time!