Using electronic coupons
In addition to the wonderful coupons we find in our newspaper inserts and online, many stores are also offering electronic coupons as well! These coupons can be loaded onto your shopper's card for your store, and you automatically receive the savings at checkout.
Cellfire.com is a site that contains electronic coupons that you can load to your store card just by visiting the website and choosing the coupons that you want. You can even load them to your card via your cell phone.
The following stores currently participate in CellFire:
Baker’s
City Market
Dillons
Dominick's
Fry's
Gerbes
Hilander
JayC
King Soopers
Kroger
Owen’s
Payless
QFC
Ralphs
Randall’s
Safeway
Scott’s
ShopRite
Smith's
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The following stores currently participate in PGeSaver:
Carr's
City Market
Dillons
Dominick‘s
Fry's
Genuardi's
JayC
King Soopers
Pavilions
QFC
Ralphs
Randall's
Safeway
Smith's
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Vons
ShortCuts.com is another site that lets you load store coupons to your shopper's card. And guess what... there are even MORE coupons on their site.
The following stores currently participate in ShortCuts:
Baker’s
City Market
Dominick's
Dillons
Fry's
Gerbes
Hilander
JayC
King Soopers
Kroger
Owen’s
Payless
QFC
Ralphs
Randall’s
Safeway
Smith's
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If your grocery store happens to participate in any or all of these, you can have store coupons from all three sites loaded on your card simultaneously -- which you can then stack with manufacturer coupons from the newspaper or internet.
SoftCoin offers electronic coupons for Unilever products for the following stores:
City Market
Dillons
Fry's
Hilander
JayC
King Soopers
Kroger
Again, visit the site, enter your card number, and load them to your card. It's easy! You'll also find a link to these coupons from the individual sites of the stores listed above.
Upromise.com is a different kind of electronic coupon. When you load these to your shopper's card, the amount saved goes into your child's college savings fund at Upromise. And, you can use manufacturer coupons in conjunction with Upromise coupons as well.
MANY stores nationwide participate in Upromise -- too many to list! Visit their site, register your shopper's card, and get started saving! After you log in, click eCoupons, and you're ready to load them to your card.
If your local store doesn't participate in any of these programs, make sure to check the store's site. The Jewel-Osco chain in Chicago offers its own electronic coupons called Avenu:
Log in with your Jewel Preferred card, add the items to the card, and start saving! It's as easy as that. And again, we can use manufacturer coupons with these, as the electronic coupons function as store coupons as well.
The Giant Eagle chain of grocery stores also offers their own electronic coupons:
Again, log in with your card, load them on, and start saving!
Even if your store doesn't offer electronic coupons, check their website regularly, as they may offer printable store coupons that can be stacked with manufacturer coupons too, as Target does nationally. The Meijer chain of supermarkets does this as well:
Click "Specials" and you'll receive a list of coupons valid for the current week. Clicking each item will bring up a separate window to print that coupon.
I'm doing my best to keep this list as updated as possible! If you discover additional stores participating in electronic coupons, please feel free to post them here!
three different sessions
with the help desks on P&G eSaver and softcoin and I STILL can't get them to load my card or show up as having ANY coupons to add... I even had one cashier (who was rather nasty to me anyways) tell me none of the "new cards" work with those sites.. is this true?
She says getting a new card would not work for me, because the new card would still start with the same first three numbers and those are the ones having trouble. I've had this card for over 6 years, so I would hardly call it a "new" number, but whatever. I'm sick of it.
the only eSaver site I can seem to get loaded on my card are the cellfire and shortcuts sites. softcoin, P&G eSaver and the Dominck's site (which sends me to softcoin) doesn't work. GRRR!
P&G eSaver & Kroger
Did you know that Kroger is no longer participating with the P&G eSaver program?!! I called P&G (888-818-0540) and they told me that as of December 31st they were no longer participating! I emailed Kroger and they told me they have a new electronic coupon system. Well they do not have P&G coupons on there and that is what I love and miss! I think we should all call and e-mail these companies to get them to go back to Kroger!
Cellfire
I need to know how Cellfire works. I have to pay for each text message received or sent from my cell phone so this will not help me save money if it is going to cause charges on my cell phone bill every time I use it. I tried to read the policy on their website and it is unclear what charges you incur after the initial sign-up. Please let me know how it works exactly.
Cellfire
Sign up online & you shouldn't receive a text. I never did & I signed up just a few months ago.
Don't need text
It doesn't text you. I believe you can sign up with no texts, but when I first signed up over a year ago, it sent you one text to confirm your account. I'm not sure it even does that anymore. The texting thing is really for if you want to load the coupons to your card from your phone.
I always load mine from the computer at home.
Uniliver
Jill, at that SoftCoin website it lists Dominick's as a company that you can load ecoupons too. However, yesterday when I logged in, it doesn't show that as an option. Have you tried this with Dominick's?
Not yet
I don't think they're in yet. I saw that they're listed (and I think they'll eventually roll out with Softcoin) but when you actually get to the card-loading page, it only shows the Kroger-owned stores. I was able to load them to my Hilander card without a problem, but not Dominicks... yet.
Thanks
Ok, perhaps it is going to be like Cellfire and Shortcuts, where it took a week or so to load Safeway stores. Thanks!
Cellfire and Shortcuts question
I just activated both shortcuts and cellfire to Tom Thumb so I can get the discounts at Dominicks with my Fresh Values Card. Here is my question... I noticed Betty Crocker Brownies have coupons on both sites, one for .75/2 (cellfire) and the other for .60/2 (shortcuts). Jill, how do you know which one will activate at checkout?
You typically don't...
Unfortunately, when 2 or more sites have discounts for the same items, you usually only get the discount once. But if you went back through the lane and bought it again, the second discount should be applied to the second box of brownies, etc. However, sometimes they do! You just have to try.
2 eCoupons, 1 item
I purchased the FiberOne granola bars as part of the Dominick's mix/match and noticed that I received 2 eCoupons for 40 cents off. The Q was on both Cellfire and ShortCuts - so is it possible that I was credited from both websites?
Also, do you know if you can use the coupons once/day? once/transaction?
Yes
Sometimes if a coupon is on both sites, it does indeed deduct from both. Other times it's unpredictable (may only go once, and on the next transaction, the other site will credit it if you buy another.) Glad you got both :)
The Dominick's ecoupons are good for one ITEM - but go back and check after you use them. They do drop off your card after you buy them, but lately with Shortcuts, a day later they're back and available for you to load on again. PGEsaver typically doesn't reset that quickly - theirs will be new about once a month.
Does Kroger Stack coupons?
My mom lives in Huntley and I hear all the deals she gets, Thank you Jill!
I live in Peoria and I try my best to copy what you do but I am not sure if Kroger stacks coupons or not.
On a side note Upromise.com also lets you load coupons on to your Kroger card also. It is great when you get a cashier the has to wait to scan paper coupons because they have to wait for loaded coupons to load.
Question
How in the world do you find this stuff? I am going to try to look for south FLorida stores, but I am amazed that you can find all of this!!! I'll tape searching tips any day! :)
Keep watching
Always look at your own stores' sites for coupons too, either printable or electronics -- and sites like Shortcuts, PGEsaver and Cellfire are growing all the time, so they may add your stores at some point if they're not currently a part of it. :)
Food4Less
Food4Less in Crest Hill sells Kroger brand items. Does this mean that it issues the Kroger card and that it has the same policies? I'm not sure if selling a brand makes a store "affiliated."
No
Unfortunately, no - Food 4 Less is a "clearance" chain of Kroger, and they don't participate in the Kroger card program.
Kroger tips
This is probably a dumb question, but does anybody have any tips on Kroger? I might be in the area by one in a couple of weeks. I tried signing up with coupons online, but since I don't have a Kroger card, the coupons wouldn't load.
Call the Store
Call the store and see if they can mail you an application and ask if you can send it back in?
Well, it's fantastic..!
Because of everything I covered above (doubling coupons every day, plus three sites to load & stack electronic coupons) you can do REALLY well at a Kroger or Kroger-owned store. You do definitely need a Kroger card to work with though. If you do go by the store, run in and get a free Kroger card. Then you'll have it if you get there again. I don't get to Hilander (Rockford, IL's Kroger) much at all, but I do have a card for there just in case -- plus, then I have it on hand to load coupons to as needed.
Plus Card
Can you use the Hilander Card at a Kroger store and vise versa?
I believe so
I believe so, yes -- my Hilander card has a Kroger logo on it so I'd think so. Kroger owns Hilander, so they're the same store. All the house-brand products at Hilander even have the Kroger name on them..! I've never tried it though.
hilander/kroger
Hi! I live in the Belvidere area and just so you know Hilander/Kroger DOUBLES their coupons EVERYDAY! WHOO HOO!!! Up to 55 cents! So if you have a 55 cents coupon you get $1.10 off whatever you're using it for!!! I know it works because I just went in to Hilander yesterday finally doing this super couponing thing after attending a class in November (Yes, I have taken 4 ever) and I bought a suave deoderant for only 50 cents!!! I only had 1 coupon with me so I have 3 more, so i'm heading out there tomorrow to stock up. And also, received great deals on campbell soups, and ravioli for the kids for those quick lunches on the weekends!!! Have fun!
Super Couponing in Northern California
Does anyone have any tips on Super Couponing in Northern California? Grocery stores, loyalty cards etc?
Happy to help
I'd be happy to try to find some info that may be helpful, but I would need to know the town(s) you shop in before I can find out anything. :-)