Market Tally & Why Shopping at Giant Eagle Rocks

I haven't posted a tally for quite a long time so here is the end of April's tally.
This is a running 12 month tally. So when I get to June, when I first began keeping track of tallies, I'll be able to better figure out my true yearly savings.

From Fuelperks:           $1743.87 [this is free fuel we have received]
From Foodperks:             388.44  [this is extra money off our total from buying fuel]
Weekly Specials:            2095.92  [these are in-store specials]
Coupon Savings:            1121.17  [that's free money people]

So I have saved, just in coupons, more than $1,100 for the last 12 months. Keep in mind, all I had to do was clip, organize and save.  I try to buy extras on weekly specials.  When we buy food at Giant Eagle, we earn $.10 for every $50 spent. If a trip costs us $150 then we just earned $.30 off each gallon of gas up to 30 gallons.  It is not hard for us to reach the cost of gas every 6 weeks. We will up one of our cars, take several gasoline containers and get our entire 30 gallons free. $1700 on fuel is quite a savings.

So then when you fill up, for every 10 gallons at Giant Eagle you earn 1% of foodperks. So for 30 gallons of gas, we earn 3% off of our grocery bill. We usually what until we reach 20% and then buy $300 worth of groceries and use our 20% off our food bill to get $60 off.  So this really adds up fast. My husband fills up every week and I usually am every week or week and a half, depending on where we have to drive for the weekend. We have to fill up at a GetGo which is Giant Eagle's gas station. Basically we got 6 free 30 gallon fill ups in the last 12 months.

eoffers at Giant Eagle

So I've heard about loading coupons onto your store courtesy card, but never taken the time to figure it out. Wow, what a difference. I logged onto my Giant Eagle account, clicked eoffers and started loading ecoupons to my card. A store coupon, coupled with a manufacturer's coupon, is twice the savings. Giant Eagle always doubles manufacturer's coupons up to $1, so really it's like saving three times as much. Take the time to look on-line at your store's website to see if they offer eoffers or ecoupons to load to your card. This is an example:

Pillsbury cookies:

eoffer $1.00 off 2 packages

manu. coupon $1.00 off 2 packages

on sale for 2/$5 this week

stack the two coupons for a 2/$3 final price