Shampoo for $0.24

I recently saw a tweet from KrazyCouponLady claiming that it was possible to get shampoo at Target for $.24.  Or course, I had to try it out!  First of all, Target allows stacking of their coupons which means that they allow you to use a manufacturers coupon and combine it with one of their Target coupons. 

I went online to the Target website and printed the Garnier Fructis $.75 off coupon and combined it with a manufacturers $2.00 off coupon that I got from the Red Plum 1/12/2014 insert.  The shampoo was $2.99.

Let's do the math...$2.99 - $2.00 - $.75 = $.24!!!!!

Meijer no longer doubles manufacturer coupons

I went to Meijer yesterday to pick up a few items and to, of course, redeem some coupons.  I haven't shopped at Meijer for a very long time because I prefer Kroger.  However, I figured since I was writing this blog that I should give it a go and make a short stop at Meijer.  In this week's ad they had Fruit Roll-Ups and Fruit by the Foot on sale for 3/$5.  They also had Yoplait Go-Gurts for 2/$4.  I had a $.50 on two coupon for the Fruit Roll-Ups which would double to make each item $1.17 each and I had a $.35 coupon for the yogurt which would double and make the yogurt $1.30 each.  When I was at the self check-out I noticed that the coupons were not doubling.  I asked the employee that was working only to be informed that Meijer stopped doubling coupons back in August 2013.  As I said before, I haven't shopped at Meijer for a long time.  I asked her to cancel my order but she was kind enough to give me an in store $5 coupon which ended up being better then what I would have received if my coupons were doubled.  Needless to say, I will not be going to Meijer for any of my coupon needs in the future.