Abe's Grocery Tips
Proven secrets to save you 30% to 50% on your weekly groceries

Grocery Coupon Compounding

There are three ways to compound your grocery store coupons to save on you grocery shopping bill.....

1. Double or triple the value of your coupon
   Most stores today will automatically double any coupon that is less than $1.00. If your store doesn't do this, ask a store manager why they don't and see if they plan on doing it in the near future. It helps if you know of other stores in the area that do double coupons and point them out to the manager.
    
   Keep your eyes open for the stores that send out triple coupons and use these if you can find them. Many of the stores that offer these types of money saving coupons will accept up to five or six competitor's triple coupons. Talk to the grocery store that prints these triple coupons and find out how you can get on their mailing list, or find out which newspapers carry the triple coupons.
    
2. Coupons for sale items
   Grocery stores have certain items that go on sale each week. These items are discounted anywhiere from 5% to 50% or are sometimes listed as "buy one get one free". You want to try and time your coupon purchases for the week the item is on sale. This way, you compound your savings by getting the sale price AND the coupon discount. If an item is "buy one get one free", the store may actually accept two coupons, enabling you in essence to use a coupon for an item you haven't even paid for!
    
3. Double or triple coupons for sale items (both!)
   Use your double or triple coupons on sale items and save even more!

Here is a real life example of how I saved 87% on my groceries by using coupon compounding:

A name brand gallon of ice cream went on sale, "buy one get one free". The gallon usually costs $4.00 per gallon, but with the sale, I was able to get two gallons for $4.00. I also had two 50 cent grocery coupons for the ice cream and two triple coupons. I tripled two 50 cent coupons ($1.50 each) and the store accepted both. I ended up purchasing two gallons of the name brand ice cream for $1.00!

Two gallons normally $8.00. But I bought them for $4.00 - $1.50 - $1.50 = $1.00

If I had run out at the last minute to buy two gallons of ice cream, it would have cost me $8.00! That is a 87% savings!!! I bought four gallons that day and put three in my spare freezer. (I had 4 coupons and 4 triples).

(Read More: Ways to Get Grocery Store Coupons)