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Is customer service getting worse, or am I just getting grumpier?

Published on July 2, 2009 By BillyOceansEleven

Two bad customer service experiences in the last two weeks having me wondering if the general level of customer service is getting worse, or if I am just getting more irritable as I get older? Here’s the first one: I was at Kroger picking up a few items, including two packs of Kraft American singles. [...]

Coupon shoppers – Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore!

Published on January 8, 2009 By BillyOceansEleven

As sentiments about the economy continue to degrade, there is a mighty battle brewing. No, I’m not talking about fights over trillion dollar “stimulus” packages, bailouts, or tax cuts. The dispute I’m speaking of is on the surface over much smaller amounts. I’m talking about the battle between coupon shoppers and uncooperative retail store employees. In [...]

Drugstore Deals: Getting the party started

Published on November 24, 2008 By BillyOceansEleven

As economic conditions worsen, more and more people are getting into coupons and frugality in general. But a lot of people get overwhelmed just trying to figure out where to get started.  I realized this when Shreela, a reader that found this blog from one of my posts on Slickdeals, left this comment: Hi, I’m [...]

My continuing love affair with Walgreens

Published on October 24, 2008 By BillyOceansEleven

Walgreens deals just keep on coming! They released a new $5 off $20 coupon, and that coupled with the Easy Saver Rebate deals and the Register Rewards deals is making for some very good deals. Compare that to the crappy deals we’ve seen recently from CVS! Right now through Saturday (10/25), the following items will produce [...]

My couponing method

Published on August 1, 2008 By BillyOceansEleven

I post pretty frequently about deals at CVS and Walgreens, and many of those deals are made better by using manufacturer’s coupons that come in the Sunday paper every week. Our friends at Money Under 30 posted about their method of couponing recently in this post. But many people think that scouring coupon inserts, cutting [...]

Buying Walgreens diapers for fun and profit!

Published on July 25, 2008 By BillyOceansEleven

I mentioned in my last post how I was getting totally bored with CVS and their deals. Well, thankfully Walgreens is picking up the slack on their deals, and today and tomorrow (7/25-26) they have an absolutely incredible deal going on Walgreens brand diapers. It is a little YMMV (your mileage may vary), however my [...]

Getting bored with CVS deals

Published on July 23, 2008 By BillyOceansEleven

I written many times about the awesome deals you can get at CVS, but I’ve lost a bit of the enthusiasm I once had. Not too long ago savvy CVS shoppers were treated to a feast of free products and plenty of coupons to make the deals even better, but things seem to have changed. [...]

CVS and abuse of the DMCA

Published on April 30, 2008 By BillyOceansEleven

Longtime readers of this blog know that I frequent CVS, normally with printable in-store coupons in hand. However, the powers that be at CVS apparently don’t like what I am doing, or at least they want to try to keep you from replicating my deals. A few days ago I posted a list of ECB [...]

CVS and Walgreens Deals Freebies and Deals (Late April)

Published on April 24, 2008 By BillyOceansEleven

It has been a while since I have written about the deals at CVS and Walgreens, for a few reasons. First, I’ve been really busy with work and the kids, so I haven’t really posted much of anything lately. Secondly, the lack of CVS coupons has kind of dampened my enthusiasm a bit. However, there [...]

Cheap/Free Cereal at Safeway & Walgreens

Published on March 5, 2008 By BillyOceansEleven

I love cereal. Like most kids, the cereal aisle was my favorite aisle of the grocery store growing up. I could eat cereal for any meal of the day, or as a snack. I just love the stuff. Anyway, this is a good week to stock up on cereal, thanks to some real good specials [...]