10 Safeway Money Saving Tips You Probably Didn’t Know #Safeway

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Here are just a few tips, secrets and tricks I have learned to save you EXTRA money at Safeway!!!

Many of these tips are learned through trial and asking. You may be very surprised at how much you can save just by letting them work for you. Please don’t feel guilty, shy or embarrassed to ask for some of these services. They are all included in the “service” part of service deli, service bakery and service meat department!

 

• Friday is the best day to look for marked down items – Many times they don’t have an order person on the weekends so they do all their marking down for the entire weekend ahead on Fridays.
• The meat department will give you FREE seasoning (liquid or dry) for any meat purchase in the whole section. They amount they give (at least at my store) is extremely generous, worth at least $3-$4 if you were to buy them in the seasoning isle.
• The Bakery will run your French bread (or any other whole bread) through the slicer for you.
• The deli will slice your blocked cheese for FREE – this will save you lots of money compared to the deli counter slices cheese or even the pre-sliced cheeses in the hanging deli isle.
• The Meat counter will cut/grind and wrap your meat for you.  I have bought very large pieces of beef roast and had the meat counter cut it in half for me to make a roast one night and grind the other half for an extra lean hamburger. This can make for very cheap hamburger if you can catch the roast for around $2 a pound, that sure beats $3.99 a pound for a mix of hamburger scraps.
• Look for the produce monthly coupon book. The don’t usually have a lot of coupons, maybe 3-4 but they have been known to have FREE product coupons or high value coupons to make salads and other items super cheap or FREE if you combine them with a doubler.
• Sign up for J4U and they will give you approx. 4-5 FREE items monthly to add to your card. These are FREE and CLEAR no purchase needed coupons. I have had them be as small a yogurt up to as big as a full size bottle of Tide detergent.
• Check your “Special Offers” section on your J4U and look for “get xx of you gas when you spend xx amount”  My sister and I have both had this offer on our phones at the same time and they are random at what offer you will get. Mine was save $.30 per gallon when you spend $90 in a single transaction, hers was save $.40 when you spend $120. I have learned through trial and error that you can earn multiple discounts….. BUT you can not get them back to back. You need to wait 24hrs before you can earn and additional bonus gas credit.
• At 8pm is when the mark down the Chinese food in the deli section. My husband and I will plan our evening around this at times…. it gives us a good goal to get the little kids to bed and then watch a movie and have cheap Chinese food.
• I will just through this out there…. although this may not come as a shock to many BUT Safeway has doublers. I still come across people that do not know what a doubler is or how to use it. Every week Safeway had a small rectangular coupon on the bottom inner page of their ad. This doubler allows you to double (4) coupons up to $.50 each (as long as the coupon does not say “do not double” This small little coupon has allowed me to save a lot and help build a storage.

Good Luck, and please share your Safeway tips, tricks and money saving ideas!!