Jill Cataldo

Last week, I posted news that had been circulating around the grocery blogs -- Safeway stores, which dropped support for Cellfire electronic coupons last month, were also dropping support for ShortCuts and PGEsaver ecoupons as well. As many of us were still able to load ecoupons to their cards from the latter two sites, but word around the blogosphere was that the ecoupons were being dropped at any store offering the new Just For U ecoupons, I wanted to get something official to post for everyone. Here's the response I received from Dominick's:

For Dominicks, you can no longer load offers from Cellfire. Any offers previously loaded and still valid should be processed correctly at the register.

For AOL Shortcuts - you can still load offers to card but this will be changing at the end of November - at that point you will no longer be available to load offers from Shortcuts to a Fresh Values card. Again, any previously loaded offers that are still valid should be honored at checkout.

For P&G eSaver you can still load and redeem offers from their site.

File this one under "What is Dominick's thinking now?"

Over the past few weeks, Cellfire subscribers received emails notifying them that Dominick's has decided not to participate in Cellfire ecoupons anymore. From the wording in the email, it seemed that this was a temporary situation, as Cellfire hoped that they'd be available to Dominick's shoppers again soon. A press release I received from Cellfire echoed the same sentiment -- this was a temporary decision on Dominick's part.

Apparently, though, it's not temporary. And not only is Cellfire not coming back, PGEsaver and Shortcuts ecoupons may now be off the table too. Dominick's is apparently putting all of their eggs in the "Just For U" basket.

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.