*** it lets them sell their products to customers who are very price sensitive, without lowering the price paid by people who are too busy or embarassed to clip coupons.***
I never see coupons on the items I like to buy. Coupons are nothing but a bribe to get people to buy foods they normally don’t buy or use.
It is rather irritating to get behind someone in line who suddenly pulls out a handful of coupons for a dozen cake mixes or other items because they are 10 cents off! then they get into an argument with the cashier because half of the coupons are expired.
As I have said before, I don’t use coupons because there is nothing I want to buy that has a coupon on it.
That’s OK, because being on line behind someone as ignorant as you are and watching you pay full price for things I get for pennies on the dollar makes me happy enough for both of us. :-)
It all depends on where you are in life’s great food chain. If you’re in that middle section that uses a lot of the main brands (Kraft, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury) coupons are great, because they’re the big coupon printers and that’s the stuff you buy anyway. I’ve been right through the chain, used to be too poor for that stuff even with coupons so they were useless to me, then I made enough to change to those brands and used coupons a lot, now I’ve moved past those to the Boar’s Head section of the grocery store and they don’t make coupons so I no longer use them.
I guess you don't use propane because one of my GroupOn coupons is for propane. Of course, for me it's FREE since I used GroupOn referral bucks to pay for it.
It is rather irritating to get behind someone in line who suddenly pulls out a handful of coupons for a dozen cake mixes or other items because they are 10 cents off!
I don't mess with those small amounts. I usually save several bucks per item. Of course, I use coupon combos like manufacturer's coupons on top of store coupons topped off with $5/$30 coupons for the entire amount.
As I have said before, I don’t use coupons because there is nothing I want to buy that has a coupon on it.
I guess you didn't want Thanksgiving turkey because I used coupons to get mine for FREE. Oh, and consider not driving because for a couple of months last summer I was filling up my tank for FREE via coupons.
p.s. This very computer I am typing on I got FREE a couple of years ago via coupons. Methinks you associate coupons with a dime off macaroni type of stuff. I've taken it to a whole other level.