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HealthESavers – HealthESavers is the new coupon site from Eating Well Magazine. There are not many coupons on it yet but they are actively looking for manufacturers. They have a weekly coupon e-mail I am waiting to receive to see what they offer.
Organic Valley – The coupons are valid for 30 days from the date on which they are printed. Online coupons are limited to two (2) prints per coupon offer. Their coupon offers are typically refreshed once per year, normally …

More than just 401(k)s are changing with the economy. Many shoppers are changing the way they purchase groceries, eating out less and coupon clipping.
According to the retail firm Precima, 48 percent of people who said they were saving money on gas are now spending that same money on groceries.

Lisa Williams has never liked sorting through coupons, and she no longer has to at Kroger Co. grocery stores.
Every few weeks, coupons arrive in Williams’ Elizabethtown, Ky., mailbox for items she usually loads into her cart. While Kroger is building loyalty – with 95 percent of a recent mailing tailored to specific households – Williams is saving money without searching through dozens of pages of coupons.
“I’m not that big a coupon-clipper,” she said. “It seems like a lot of coupons you see are (for) things that you never use.”

When times are tough, super-markets know vigilant shoppers notice even tiny changes in the price of foods like milk, cereal, bread and cheese. In fact, there are about 500 such products, and stores raise prices on these staples at their own peril.
So how do markets deal with rising food costs? They tinker with the price of the roughly 45,000 items people don’t buy regularly enough to have a fixed idea of their cost—tacking on 3 to 4 percent to specialty products like, say, gourmet pasta sauce or fresh-squeezed juices, without …