Shaws Vent, sort of off topic

[thomaston5]

I haven't been posting since October due to my husband stepped on my laptop and broke my monitor and so my computer use has been spotty at best, but now I'm back in business.

I have to rant out loud for a minute. Mod, please feel free to move if inappropriate.

I have been a serious couponer for almost 10 years now. I do very well and will share coupon basics information to close friends and family when asked, and sometimes even if I'm not asked LOL. I practice good coupon karma (i.e., follow all rules, leave unwanted q's on the shelves, etc.) in the hopes that my good coupon fortune will continue.

With all of that said, here is my rant:

I shop in Freeport. Ever since about November, I have noticed that the shelves are CLEARED of sale inventory about 2 minutes after the sale starts. This is making me nuts. It would be one thing if there were a lot of couponers making several small purchases, but according to one of my friends who is a FEM there, it is ONE person!!!!

I know I know all the explainations "I donate it""I/he/she/we/they lost their job""I sell the stockpile to make ends meet"....

Really? I mean Really? I can make an arguement to each one of these....

I donate it: That's awesome, but let me ask, if maybe you left some items on the shelves, and maybe helped someone less fortunate than yourself learn how to coupon, it seems to me that perhaps a person wouldn't have to go to the food pantry in the first place, thus perhaps raising ones self esteem??? kinda goes along with the "if you teach a man to fish" thing.

"I/he/she/we/they lost their job": And just how is 30 packages of OEP rice sides going to help you pay your mortgage? And the salsa? And the Ronzoni?

"I sell the stockpile to make ends meet": hmmm, doesn't one have to have a license to sell groceries?

My point in this rant. We all love the deals. And in this economy, we ALL could use a break and some really good deals. Please remember, when you are going after these deals, there are others out there who are also probably looking for the same deals. Mass hoarding breeds contempt, and a really unorganized pantry with some questionable expiration dates.

Rant over. Thanks for listening.

Thomaston.

[scissorbill]

I agree!

There were coupons in some of the boxes of Quaker oatmeal and when I went to Shaw's to buy my 6 boxes someone had taken the liberty of opening many of the boxes to 'check' for them. Grrr!

[thomaston5]

Wow, Sissor, you handled that one better than I....I think I would have gone home, gotten my lawn chair and planted it right there in the aisle....just waiting for the next person who did that

That's not only illegal, that's just down right yucky!

[Mothernature]

Did you see the post about Purex under HUTC? I agree with you 1000%.