Not Subject to Doubling

Hi Everyone,

And so it goes, that either every day, week or month you find another surprise that catches you off guard a bit. I'm not talking about some big life altering surprise. But a surprise that just creeps up on you.

Being a coupon using house, a while ago my wife and I started to notice that some coupons had a Do Not Double exclusion printed on them. Now, it seems that the majority of coupons are Do Not Double. Not sure about where you all live, but around where we live, all grocery stores double the value of coupons up to and including 99 cents. We don't even see many 99 cents coupons around here anymore. The highest cents off coupons we find are for 75 cents. The bottom line here is that the big companies like: Kraft and General foods etc. have found another way to pad their already heavily padded bottom lines.

There are still so many people having a hard time making ends meet. Regularly using coupons can really lower your food bill, especially if you use the coupons when the products are on sale. That is a win win situation. Unfortunately it is painfully obvious that the companies have the right to make coupons not eligible to be doubled. But these are the same companies that now sell almost everything in smaller sizes and weight etc., but charge the same amount as their older predecessors, or even more now. They said it was so they wouldn't raise their prices. It just leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Now isn't the time to eliminate coupon doubling. It doesn't make common sense, oh wait......... unless you are the big company and in their eyes, it is just another way to make more money by making us pay more.

Til next week.

Peter