Giant Trip 3/15 for potatoes and cranberry juice

I wasn't planning on another trip to the grocery store this week but I was going through my e-mails last night when I got a strange one from Giant that I haven't gotten in ages.  I opened it to find that they were offering additional coupons on some items to be loaded to my Giant card.  I added all that were available and then started looking to see what weekly deals I could match them up with.  Exciting news was that one of them was for $1 off a bag of potatoes and they were on sale for B1G1 this week.  Of course, that means that I don't know the price but I figured that it would work out to a good price after all was said and done.  There was another one with $0.75 off Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice (and there was a $0.50 Uscan it discount).  I knew that they were on sale last week and I was hoping that they still were.

This morning, my son and I got in the car and went to check the deals.  We got our scanner at the entrance to the store and told some other women who was using it for the first time ever how easy it was to do :)  See how helpful I was today!!  Then we headed to the potato section.  The signs are already down because it is the last day of the sale but luckily I grabbed the ad so that I would know what which one was on sale.  I scanned two bags of potatoes, first bag for $3.99 and the second was $0.  Then we went to check out the cranberry juice.  Double excited because it was still on sale for $2.50!!!  I grabbed the white cranberry strawberry which rang up as $2.00 after the uscan savings (HAHA, little does the scanner know that it will be $1.25 after my other electronic coupon).  I went to the self check out and scanned my uscan machine, then my card, and then I added on my three bags that I used.  It took off all coupons between the second and third bag so my total went from $4.24 to $6.50.  UGH!  I pressed the button and the lady came over and I told her about it.  She didn't understand what I was saying and told me to pay for it because the bag credit showed up.  Nope, still not understanding what I am saying.  A guy came over to help and I explained it to him.  He cancelled the transaction and was going to do it again.  I told him that I needed to use the scanner but since I already used that one, it was all over.  I had to go back to the beginning of the store and ring it all up.  Then I went to customer service to finish and the gentleman that was helping me came over and told her what to do about the bag credit.  She let me pay for the transaction and then she gave me a quarter from the drawer for the bag credit (even though I was only supposed to get $0.15).  Even though it was a little much with a three year old who already finished his bank lollipop, I think that it was a success.  My son said good bye and thank you to her and then said goodbye to the grocery store and we were on our way to the car with our three bags of heavy groceries (pictured below).

 Here is my receipt with all of the sale savings at the top of the receipt and the e-coupons at the bottom.  The total was $4.35 minus my shiny quarter so it was $4.10 OOP.  I think that it was a good trip to the store to get an interesting mix of groceries.

With this trip to the store, it brings the month total to $134.14.  Exciting news because the rumor is that Harris Teeter has triples next week starting on March 21st.  I will be there right after I drop my son off at school to get lots of good deals to finish out the month.  I can't wait to see what deals await since they haven't done triples in so long.  I was actually hoping for super doubles because I was hoping to use some rain checks from last time to get some deals that I really wanted before the coupons expire.  I am sure whichever one it ends up will produce some great deals and use up the rest of the budget left for the month.  Hope your month is going as well and you are getting lots of great deals!!