So, every Saturday....I spend an hour or so editing my old list and typing up the new one. Now, I am not YOUNG....but not quite old yet. Closer to 50 than 40...but not so old as to quite yet get my reading glasses going....
They want us to respect the expiration dates...but they are first...ALLLLLL OVER the coupons. No longer in a regular place every week...on the top, the bottom, thrown into the mice prints at the bottom...not the side (sideways)!!! So, step one is find the thing somewhere on there.
step 2 reading that print!!!! TEENY TINY print...almost too small for the naked eye. Hold it up to the light....bend the paper back this way and that way....trying to make it out. Let us be quite honest, some times, I am guessing!!!! (or I look up the date on coupontom if he has the dates up yet!!!)
THEN?!?! last week...the background was green and the type was YELLOW!!! teeny tiny...itty bitty date in yellow...blurring into the background!
Please dear coupon printer people...or manufactures.....PLEASE make the expiration dates readable if you want us to read them!!! 1|1|I think they are doing everything they can to not...|Skaytes|skaytez@gmail.com|08:24:54|06/21/2016|
let us be able to use coupons at all. From the issues you are talking about to limiting how many per transaction to weird verbage on there to confuse cashiers/managers even more. The list goes on and on. That way they can 'try' to blame it all on someone else. Consumer..to the store..to managers and cashiers etc. I am not brand loyal to hardly anything any longer thanks to the companies and the 'games' they play. I live 45 minutes from any large grocery chain or Walmart etc so when I make a trip I have to buy a LOT of stuff to make it worth my trip for time and gas and so forth. Companies and the stores make it almost impossible these days for me to 'stock up' on anything anymore. Aldi's has become my choice lately of most everything I buy out of town. My hometown grocery store here is the ONLY one I know that will take coupons without bar codes (the old ones) and wine tags now..they double to $.50 everyday (no one else does that I know of) and never hassle me on them or limit the amount of anything I purchase from them. In fact they let me buy stuff by the case and use a coupon on each item in the case and double it if it's $.50 or under. Have to say I hate Walmart like most people so try to avoid them if at all possible. Now they are not going to price match..going to use their walmart catcher app instead Just one more reason to not go there. Oh and not take coupons if they don't scan. Hellloo...if I print them at home and your scanner won't read them it's not MY fault. Another reason..just keeps adding up more and more. OK..rant over. For now. :) 6|2|I was at Harris teeter super doubles today and mgr told me|glennie58|glenn_scott@alumni.ksg.harvard.edu|16:52:09|06/27/2016|
Sometimes the dnd is buried in the paragraph for the mfr 2|1|The same on some beer MIRs!|Jorainna|jorainna@aol.com|09:02:49|06/21/2016|
What about that print, especially on the Heineken MIR forms! I DO have reading glasses just for that purpose; and STILL can't make it out at times. (Thought it was just me ... lol!) 3|2|I have purchased a magnifying glass (or two!) from the Dollar Tree....but that shouldn't be necessary!!!|Chicagoclipper|Barb.erradi@aol.com|14:29:04|06/23/2016|
And Kathy, you are sooo right!!! They say "consumer: limit 4 per houshold" then say "To retailer: and have different verbiage" ...
It has gotten dumb at this point 4|3|I carry 2 magifying glasses in my purse -- wow - what small print!|leahmay|gettoney@yahoo.com|07:29:22|06/25/2016|
It is getting impossible to read some of these small letters! Leahmay 5|4|Yeah, Leah, and then put them in YELLOW on a green background!!|Chicagoclipper|Barb.erradi@aol.com|13:32:37|06/25/2016|
Hahahaha, how can they expect to be taken seriously?