Why was there a Jewel coupon in the Pittsburgh paper?

[cheapchick]

Ok, curiosity got to me! I live over an hour from Pittsburgh in Ohio but I buy the Post Gazette paper for the coupons. I see a coupon for Fannie May ice cream. The coupon says to redeem at Jewel-Osco or Fannie May retail locations. Ok, so I did a little research and Jewel-Osco stores are in Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa. The closest Jewel-Osco is over 400 miles from Pittsburgh in Michigan City, IN. The nearest Fannie May retail store to Pittsburgh is over 100 miles away in Hudson, OH. So what the heck is with that coupon? Maybe I'm missing something. Is the ice cream so good that someone would drive 100 miles to get it? :shrug7:

[couponcrazy5950]

The ice cream is B1G1 at Jewel right now--so 2 free w/that coupon. The mint meltaway could very possibly be worth the drive

Of course, if you're not going to use it, I'm sure you could trade it

[cheapchick]

Sure, Jewel would only be 336 miles from my house...maybe worth a trip for 2 Free ice creams!

[go2couponmaven]

Yea, worth the trip! ha! ha! I ended up with 10 Fannie May ice cream's this week, plus tons of Breyers! I donated most of the Breyers to the food pantry in my town.

[extechy]

Can you send it to me?

[barbyq]

Ok, curiosity got to me! I live over an hour from Pittsburgh in Ohio but I buy the Post Gazette paper for the coupons. I see a coupon for Fannie May ice cream. The coupon says to redeem at Jewel-Osco or Fannie May retail locations. Ok, so I did a little research and Jewel-Osco stores are in Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa. The closest Jewel-Osco is over 400 miles from Pittsburgh in Michigan City, IN. The nearest Fannie May retail store to Pittsburgh is over 100 miles away in Hudson, OH. So what the heck is with that coupon? Maybe I'm missing something. Is the ice cream so good that someone would drive 100 miles to get it? :shrug7:

Jewel has a few sister stores out east. (Acme and Shaws are both on the east coast i believe) Its quite possible that Acme and Shaws both carry this brand of ice cream too and someone made a goof and put Jewel instead of Shaws or Acme in those regions paper.