Ecoupons are wonderful! Some stores allow you to use manuf. coupons with e-coupons (some stores consider e-coupons store coupons!) What is great about ecoupons is there is no cutting involved! Personally, I like manuf. coupons better because my store doubles coupons.. so I save more! The store we have ecoupons with is Krogers. My hubby plays around with the e-coupons but I told him... only load the coupon for items $1.00 or more!! The coupons that are of lesser value are the only coupons I really have to consider loading or not! This saves a lot of time, and money if you aren't buying a paper! One of my readers also stated that her store is also working with Red Plum (I believe) and they just load coupons from their store's website to their loyalty card! A lot of the coupons were great and had high value! I hope all stores decide to do this soon... of course an idea I had a few years back and thought there has to be a way to load my paper coupon to a card!
Another way to save behind the scenes is having a UPROMISE or Saving Star Account! The great thing about UPromise is the ability to save with online purchases as well. So if come across a page such as Ancestry.Com (if you have the tool bar it makes savings better because you remember!) a little box will pop and say you save $x.xx or a percent! This is great, its free and you can load coupons to your store cards as well, you can also save your credit card information on file and some stores that you shop around the city are partnered with them as well again saving money without knowing it!! The SavingStar program is a sister company of UPromise and works a similar way but only with grocery cards. You load your store cards and load coupons and when you purchase your items you get a pay out! Its very easy to use and you save money without realize it (or if you look before you shop you do realize it :) ) The cool thing is that you can use manuf. coupons with this card as well.. OR if your store allows you to use store coupons AND manuf. coupons at the same time, you can also take advantage of the coupon on your SavingStar or Upromise account!
I like both programs but sometimes feel like SavingStar is better for grocery shopping, and UPromise for Online (and some great grocery coupons too!) Click the pictures below to sign up for UPromise or SavingStar!
