Safeway Trip 31March09

Safeway is one of my least favorite grocery stores in the area because they seem very overpriced. When we first moved to Washington, I "price shopped" several different grocery stores one day (since it took us a week to get our belongings back, I had nothing better to do with my time).

My idea of "living frugally" back then was buying store brands rather than name brands, to save a dollar here and there.

Since I got into couponing, I've notice that there are some advantages to Safeway, because they do discount a lot of name-brand items that have coupons either in the Sunday paper or that can be found online.

What I got:
(4) Boxes of Rice A Roni (on sale for 75 cents each when you buy 10 qualifying items)
(1) Can of Nalley brand chili (on sale for 75 cents each when you buy 10 qualifying items)

(5) Cans of Chef Boyardee (on sale for 75 cents each when you buy 10 qualifying items)

Coupons I had:
(1) $1.00 off FIVE cans of Chef Boyardee, any flavor.

(1) $1.00 off FOUR boxes of Rice A Roni, any flavor.

My total spent was $5.50.

My total saved was 11.76, making this transaction with 68% savings.

It might be safe to say that Safeway is becoming one of my more favorite stores. :)