Kroger Card Loadable Coupon sites and discussion!

[zoeys_mom]

Kroger has partnered with 4 different services to allow consumers to load 1 time use coupons onto their Kroger Plus card! As of right now, these coupons can be used in conjuction with paper manufacturer coupons for additional savings!

If you do NOT live in a large city, you may want to change your location on cellfire to a larger city, like Dallas or Houston, then you will have more coupon choices pop up. (thanks for ellenbeth for this tip)

There is some great confusion, and for good reason, about all the loadable coupons and how they work. I hope this thread will help clear up some of the questions and help answer what we know so far about these coupons.
As of this writing, there are 5 sites that allow you to load coupons onto your Kroger(and Safeway-Randalls-Tom Thumb) cards. Each works a little differently, thus some of the cause for confusion. I am going to provide you the knowledge I have of these coupons and how they work. Most this knowledge has been acquired through using them myself, as well as reading others experiences in using these coupons. Hopefully this will be clear for everyone and will not make you do this afterward:

Here goes!
The four sites are Cellfire, Shortcuts, PGesaver, and Upromise.
The first 4 are loadable coupons that actually come off at the register with your qualifying purchase. The fifth, Upromise, does not appear on your receipt tape, but gets added to your Upromise account at a later date. For more information on Upromise, please visit this forum.
A couple things that are similar in all these programs.
1. These coupons are one time use only. Meaning, if the coupon is for $.50 off one yogurt, it will only take off .50 ONCE regardless of how many yogurts you buy. It is possible for the coupon to reset with a different expiration date. In this case, you would be able to load that second coupon and repeat the savings.
2. These coupons do not double or triple. They are at face value only.
3. These coupons will not come off on manager special items. If the true barcode of the product is not scanned, the system will not register the item as being participating. (This does not include reduced for quick sale where the original barcode is scanned)
4. Each site only allows 50 active coupons on your Kroger card at a time. IE 50 on cellfire, 50 on shortcuts, etc.
5. Each coupon will stay on your card until it has been redeemed or it expires.

Now to separate the uniqueness of each program.

Cellfire
Cellfire is a site that you need a phone number to set up your account. It asks for your cell number and sends a one time text code upon set up but people have had success using home phone numbers as well. Once you have an account, you need to add your store loyalty cards and then you can log in and load the coupons directly from your pc onto your shopper card.
Cellfire resets their coupons every other Tuesday. You have two weeks to load the current set of coupons to your card. You have another two weeks before these coupons actually expire. For this reason, you can have two of the same coupon active on your card at the same time.

Now the way cellfire is unique. When the coupons reset, it will show you what is available to load on your Kroger card and your Randalls’ card. It will show each of these in separate lists, so you need to pay close attention to make sure you are loading it to the appropriate card. The interesting thing I found about Cellfire is you can only load a particular coupon on one of your loyalty cards at a time. For example, if you see a coupon for $1 off Yogurt and you load it to your Kroger card, the page will refresh and you will notice the $1 yogurt coupon is no longer available on your Randalls list. Now, if you go to Kroger and buy the above mentioned yogurt, you will notice later that day or the next, you will now have that coupon available to load on your Randalls card(only if it is still within the 2 week loadable period)! Very important piece of knowledge to have, especially if you know of a huge promo going on at one store versus the other, so choose your loads wisely if you shop both these chains.
Another difference between Kroger and Randalls when it comes to cellfire.
If you have 2 identical coupons for the $1 off yogurt loaded to your Kroger card, you need to purchase 2 of these yogurts for both of your $1 off loadables to come off.
At Randalls, it appears you only need to purchase 1 for ALL loadables to come off.

Shortcuts
Shortcuts staggers their time for loading coupons and I have not quite figured out the pattern(if there is one). There is also the chance to have duplicate coupons due to the staggering expiration dates. I just try to check weekly for new coupons. Shortcuts allows you to enter your Kroger and Randalls’ card as well. The difference is they do not have a separate list for each store. They simply offer the coupon and you load it to your account. If you have entered both a Kroger and a Randalls’ card, it will take off that coupon at either store with qualifying purchase. The interesting thing here is that you can only use that coupon at ONE of the stores. With our $1 yogurt coupon example, lets say I load it to my account. I then go to Kroger and buy the yogurt and get my $1 off (as noted under the item on the receipt). That coupon is now GONE from my account and will not be available for use at Randalls’.
Shortcuts however follows the same rule as cellfire when it comes to how many come off.
If you have 2 identical coupons for the $1 off yogurt loaded to your Kroger card, you need to purchase 2 of these yogurts for both of your $1 off loadables to come off.
At Randalls, it appears you only need to purchase 1 for ALL loadables to come off.

PgEsaver
Pg Esaver appeared to be following a quarterly reset schedule up until their most recent reset. The last batch released have a 2 month life span. There has never been the chance for overlapping like coupons as these all expire at the end of a month and new ones are not released until the start of the following month.
Pg esaver allows for a different list for Kroger and Randalls. It appears that these are not in conflict with one another and you can load all coupons on both cards without affecting the other. These also appear to remain on your online account for viewing, but do in fact only come off your receipt purchases once.

Upromise
Unlike the top 4 mentioned loadable sites, Upromise does not come off at time of purchase. You do have to go load your account with the coupons before shopping. When you load your account, you can purchase the participating products at any Upromise participating stores you have loaded to your Upromise account. Currently I have Randalls, Kroger and CVS, but I do believe Albertson still has store loyalty cards that you can use for Upromise. Just confirm you have the store loyalty cards tied to your Upromise, load the coupons onto your account, and Upromise will add that money into your account at a later time. I have yet to have a problem getting the items added, but it does seem to take awhile to show up in the account(several weeks minimum)

Cellfire - all must be loaded by Nov 15, expire Nov
$1/2 Pillsbury Crescent Dinner Rolls
$0.40 Box or Pouch Betty Crocker Potatoes (Except Potato Buds)
$0.50 TUB any flavor/variety Betty Crocker Frosting
$0.60 40 OZ. + Original Bisquick OR Bisquick Heart Smart Baking Mix
$0.50 4.5 OZ. OR LARGER Chex Mix OR Chex 100 Calorie Snack
$0.50/2 any variety Green Giant Frozen Boxed Vegetables
$0.75/3 Hamburger Helper, Tuna Helper OR Chicken Helper Home Cooked Skillet Meals
$0.55 any Kix cereal - Kix, Berry Berry Kix OR Honey Kix
$0.40/2 Pillsbury Italian Meal Breads (Includes any Loaves, Breadsticks, Dinner Rolls, and Pizza Crust)
$0.50/2 Pillsbury Rolled Refrigerated Pie Crusts
$0.30/2 any size/variety Refrigerated Pillsbury Grands! Biscuits
$0.40/2 Pillsbury Sweet Rolls OR Grands! Sweet Rolls
$0.75/2 Pillsbury Refrigerated Holiday Cookies
$0.50 any variety Progresso Broth
$0.50/2 any flavor Progresso Soups
$1 any flavor Romano's Macaroni Grill Restaurant Favorites Dinner Kit
$1.00 any flavor Yoplait Delights Yogurt Multipack
$.25 4-pack+ COTTONELLE Toilet Paper
$1.00 any package of Huggies Diapers
$.55 box of LEAN POCKETS brand BREAKFAST sandwiches
$0.40 any flavor 17.5 OZ.+ Betty Crocker Cookie Mix
$0.50 any flavor Betty Crocker Warm Delights Bowls OR Minis Bowls
$1/2 any Chex cereals
$0.50 any flavor/variety Fiber One Box Muffin Mix
$1 BAG any flavor Nature Valley Granola Nut Clusters
$1/2 any variety Pillsbury Refrigerated Cookie Dough
$0.75/2 Frozen Pillsbury Grands! Biscuits, Cinnamon Rolls, OR Mini Cinnamon Rolls
$0.50/6 Yoplait Yogurt cups OR any flavor Yoplait Original OR Light Smoothies


New P&G eSAVER Q's - All of these expire on 12-31-09
$0.50/2 Pringles cans
$0.50 Secret product
$0.50 Always pads
$1 Always infinity
BOGO Always Dri-Liners 30-50 count
$2 Venus razors Embrace or Breeze
$0.50 Olay Bar Pack, Body Wash, In shower body lotion or hand and body lotion
$0.75 Crest glide product
$2 Crest Glide twinpack
$0.75 Oral B manual toothbrush
$1 Oral B floss picks 45ct +
$0.75 Fixodent 1.4oz+
$1 Pantene restorative or expressions
$1 Charmin 6 roll + toilet paper
$1 Bounty 6 roll+
$0.25 Puffs product
$1 Pampers diapers or pants
$0.25 Pampers wipes 60 ct+
$1 Pampers Underjams
$1 Pampers extra protection diapers
$1 Pampers swaddlers sensitive diapers
$0.50 Luvs diapers
$2 Clearblue pregnancy test
$5 Clearblue ovulation kit
$1 Tide powder
$0.35 Tide to go
$1 Tide stain release
$1 Cheer product
$1 Gain fabric softener
$0.50 Downy Liquid or Dryer Sheets
$0.50 Bounce dryer sheets
$0.50 Bounce dryer bar
$1 Gain detergent
$0.50 Cascade product
$0.50 Dawn product
$0.75 Mr Clean Magic Eraser
$0.75 Mr Clean spray
$0.75 Mr Clean all purpose cleaner
$.50 Swiffer WetJet sweeper starter kit
$0.75 Swiffer dry refills
$0.50 Swiffer dust and shine
$0.50 Swiffer duster 360 starter kit or refill
$5 Align product(digestive care)
$0.50 Pepto-Bismol product
$7/2 Prilosec 42 ct product
$2 Metamucil
$1 Duracell product Coppertop or Ultra Advanced 6 pack+
$2 Natural Instinct hair color
$1 Nice N Easy Product
$1 Vicks product
$5 Pur or Pur Flavor Options Pitcher or Faucet mount system
$2 Pur replacement filter or Pur Flavor Option cartridge



New shortcuts.com Q's
$20 i-wireless phones $29.99 or higher -ex 11-09-09
$1 Schick Intuition Plus for Women System Razor - ex 11-12-09
$1 Schick Quattro for Men System Razor - ex 11-12-09
$1 Schick Xtreme3 Disposable Razors - ex 11-12-09
$1 Schick Quattro Disposables Razors - ex 11-12-09
$0.50 TABASCO brand Pepper Sauce - ex 11-14-09
$2 Rohto Cool or Rohto Hydra eye care product - ex 11-14-09
$1 Newman's Own Thin & Crispy Frozen Pizza - ex 11-14-09
$1.50 HUGGIES Diapers - ex 11-14-09
$0.55 Nestlé TOLL HOUSE refrigerated cookie dough product -ex 11-15-09
$1/1 Weight Watchers Frozen Novelty or (2) Multi-Packs - ex 11-16-09
$1/2 Pillsbury Refrigerated Cookie dough - ex 11-27-09
$1/2 Pillsbury Frozen Grands! Biscuits or Cinnamon Rolls - ex 11-27-09
$0.80/2 Yoplait Go Gurt or Trix multipacks - ex 11-27-09
$0.50 19 OZ. - 24 OZ. ONLY Green Giant Frozen Bagged vegetables - ex 11-27-09
$0.40 Fiber One® Chewy Bars - ex 11-27-09
$0.75/2 Betty Crocker Box Supreme Brownie Mixes - ex 11-27-09
$.75 Frosted, Fruity, Apple Cinnamon, Banana Nut or Yogurt Burst Cheerios - ex 11-27-09
$1/2 Pillsbury Crescent Dinner Rolls - ex 11-27-09
$.75/3 Hamburger, Tuna, or Chicken helper -ex 11-27-09
$.50/6 Yoplait Yogurt cups - ex 11-27-09
$0.50 Fiber One Box Muffin Mix - ex 11-27-09
$1/2 Pillsbury Italian Meal Breads - ex 11-27-09
$0.40 Betty Crocker Potatoes - ex 11-27-09
$0.50/2 Green Giant Frozen Boxed Vegetables - ex 11-27-09
$0.50 4.5 oz+ Chex Mix Select Chocolate Turtle, Chocolate Peanut Butter, Dark Chocolate or Sweet and Salty Trail mix- ex 11-27-09
$0.50/2 Progresso Soups - ex 11-27-09
$0.50/2 Betty Crocker Cake Mix AND Betty Crocker frosting - ex 11-27-09
$0.50 Progresso Broth - ex 11-27-09
$0.40 17.5 OZ. + Betty Crocker Cookie Mix - ex 11-27-09
$0.55/2 Pillsbury Toaster Strudel Pastries - ex 11-27-09
$0.50 Kroger Brand Cereal - ex 11-30-09

Upromise q's(Keep in mind these savings will not come off your receipt, but will be added to your upromise account!)
These all expire 11-30-09
$1 Krusteaz Waffles, Pancakes or French Toast featuring CoroWise
$0.50 Krusteaz Waffles, Pancakes or French Toast
$1/2 Lucky Leaf Pie filling
$1.25/3 Cabot cheese bars
$0.50 Wacky Mac & Cheese dinner
$0.50 Wacky Mac multi-shaped and multi-colored pasta
$1/2 Ronzoni Healthy Harvest Pasta
$0.75 No Yolks Egg White Pasta
$0.75 Sister Schubert’s product
$1/2 Everyday Fun Size Nestle Chocolate items
$1/2 12 oz bags of Wonka Laffy Taffy or Wonka nerds
$0.45 Little Debbie 100 Calorie Cakes
$0.75 Little Debbie Double Chocolate Chip Muffins
$0.55 Sun Belt Hearty Grain Cookies
$1.50 Snyder's of Hanovers tortilla chips 16 oz
$1 Grande Tortilla chips 12 oz
$1 Padrinos Tortilla chips 12 oz
$1.50 Chiquita Bites Multipack or Family Pack
$1 Chiquita Bites Singles
$1 Fisher Snack Almonds, Cashew, Mixed Nuts and Pecans 5 oz+
$0.55 Fisher Chef’s naturals baking nuts 4 oz +
$0.55 Fisher Culinary Touch Cooking and Baking Nut
$5/2 Similac Infant Formula
$1.50 HUGGIES/HUGGIES Supreme Diapers
$1/3 Beech-Nut Homestyle Stage 3 baby food
$1/8 Beech-Nut Stage 2 baby food
$1 Beech-Nut Let’s Grow Item
$1.50 Green Mountain Coffee variety in a 12 ct K-Cup pack or 10-12 oz bag
$1.50 Tully's variety in a 12-ct K-Cup pack or 10-12 oz bag
.50 King Arthur Flour Unbleached Cake Flour
$1.50 BIC Comfort 3 Advanced shaver 4 pack
$3 Bic Soleil System 4 blade or Soleil Shimmer System handle cartridge or refill
$1 Gold Bond Baby Powder
$1 Gold Bond Medicated Powder excluding 1 oz. trial size
$2 Gold Bond Pain Relieving Foot Cream
$1 Gold Bond Lotion excluding trial size
$1 Gold Bond Ultimate Powder excluding trial size
$2 Gold Bond Ultimate Soothing Lotion
$2 Gold Bond Anti-Itch Lotion
$1 Charmin Fresh Mates
$1 Charmin megaroll
$1 Charmin plus lotion
$2 Bounty paper towel 6 ct+
$0.50 Bounty napkins
$0.75 Elmer’s Paint By Number or Marker by Number

[kval07]

Can someone explain the upromise thing for me. I use upromise, but I haven't seen anything on the site about Kroger. How does upromise know I bought the items for the ecoupons? Is it based off the debit/credit cards registerd, or my Kroger card? Thanks for any help.

[mpmama2re]

when I signed up for cellfire, I had to put a cellphone. tried all the house phones I have and used to have and they did not work. i used my old cellphone number. just fyi.

[courtneyrtr]

Originally Posted by kval07 Can someone explain the upromise thing for me. I use upromise, but I haven't seen anything on the site about Kroger. How does upromise know I bought the items for the ecoupons? Is it based off the debit/credit cards registerd, or my Kroger card? Thanks for any help.

Log into your account on Upromise.
Under the Profile area click on Add Grocery Cards.
Enter your Kroger Card # and you can start earing rewards.

Also you can also look at the ECoupons and add them to your account and you will get credit for these at Krogers also. HTH

Originally Posted by mpmama2re when I signed up for cellfire, I had to put a cellphone. tried all the house phones I have and used to have and they did not work. i used my old cellphone number. just fyi.

I used a phone number that I made up and it works great.

[abpmills]

Quick question...can you add a Huggies coupon from Upromise and a Huggies coupon from Shortcuts and they both come off of one package of diapers?

[courtneyrtr]

Originally Posted by abpmills Quick question...can you add a Huggies coupon from Upromise and a Huggies coupon from Shortcuts and they both come off of one package of diapers?

Its either one or the other per one item.

[CellfireGuy]

Originally Posted by keriagd I just went and signed up for Cellfire. I saw that they have a lot more than just grocery coupons. I saw under entertainment that they have some great coupons. Can someone explain how I use the coupon if I "send" it to my phone? Do I get a text message? I have never heard of anything like this and I just don't get it!! :) Thanks!

Hi keriagd,

This may sound complicated but it's really not! Bear with me here: there are 2 ways to use Cellfire. You can save coupons using your phone OR PC. It sounds like you are saving coupons by using your pc (visiting cellfire.com).

When you save a coupon to your phone, you need to activate Cellfire mobile. There are no text messages involved and Cellfire does not use up your voice minutes. Cellfire is a program/mobile website that allows you to browse and save coupons. One thing to keep in mind is that Cellfire mobile does require access to the internet so you may incur data transfer fees. If you have a data plan, accessing Cellfire is completely free. A data plan is different than a text messaging plan!

The benefit of having Cellfire mobile is that you don't have to be in front of your computer to save coupons. You can be literally anywhere where you have a cell phone signal and get access to your coupons!

The way Cellfire mobile coupons work is that you show a code that displays on your phone to the cashier. The cashier types in the code and you get your discount.

If anything is unclear, please let me know! I'd be more than happy to answer any of your questions.

[courtneyrtr]

Not sure if this belongs here?

Introducing Campbell's e-label program available exclusively at Kroger! Just sign up and every time you use your shopper's card to purchase participating items, the points will be automatically added to your school's account!

Campbells


Eligible Products:
Campbells

[ellenbeth]

Originally Posted by kval07 I would guess they are. I have been checking cellfire every month or so to see if they have added my area. They finally did, but I didn't have all the coupons people are talking about.

I live in smalltown, TX, and every time I would log in there were no coupons for my area either, but I just clicked on my town name and typed in Dallas instead and all the coupons would pop up. I loaded them to my card and they worked! I do this every time I log in now. So maybe this will help someone else.

[zoeys_mom]

Originally Posted by ellenbeth I live in smalltown, TX, and every time I would log in there were no coupons for my area either, but I just clicked on my town name and typed in Dallas instead and all the coupons would pop up. I loaded them to my card and they worked! I do this every time I log in now. So maybe this will help someone else.

Thanks for that insight for all the folks that live in the little towns between the big cities. I am going to add this to the top information so it doesn't get lost. Thanks again!