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The One Month Coupon Trick

Posted by Mike | January 24, 2008 .

I stumbled on a great post over at The Simple Dollar. It explains how to take advantage of supermarket sales and manufacturer coupons using what they call the One Month Coupon Strategy.

Basically, they advise you to hold on to your coupons for a month and then take them to the supermarket. You can save big by taking advantage of the way supermarkets time their promotions.

From the Simple Dollar…

Why does this work? Coupons in the newspaper are usually the first wave of a product push from large companies. They’ll put out coupons to start bumping up the sales, then they’ll move onto sale prices later on in the promotion. The reason for doing these in waves is so that the overall product sales trend looks solidly positive and not just a big spike with a fall-off. Plus, coupon users who use the product, like it, return to the store, and notice the item on sale are often willing to buy the item again.

I admit I’m bad with coupons. Despite my good intentions, I tend to forget them or look through them too late when they’re expired. But this interesting strategy is definitely worth trying out.