In order to coupon at the commissary, you need to know what the sales are. Lucky for us, http://www.commissaries.com tells us the price of EVERY SINGLE ITEM THAT IS IN THE STORE along with what's on sale. Couldn't be easier!!
Once you're on commissaries.com, you can click the quick link "What's on sale" to view promotional prices. You'll login with the active duty member's social and birthdate because this info isn't available to the public (we're special), and then choose your commissary (I am Camp Lejeune MCB).
A huge huge list of all products and brands will come up with their sale prices, and how long that price is good for. They really make this the easiest thing in the world for us.
Once you've got your price list, you can search through coupons online or through the circulars if you get the paper. Every coupon I have in front of me or see online, I will normally go back to this sale guide to see if the item will be free or an overage. The general rule is that an item goes on sale once every 3 months, so when you see something that yo use often on this sale list, you need to stock up and google some coupons for it!
Example: Pampers baby wipes are $1.76 right now. Now I know as I'm looking through coupons that if I find a $2 off, I'm going to get paid to take baby wipes.
You'll start to learn what things cost at the commissary, so when you see a high value coupon, you'll just start to learn that the store is actually going to end up paying you to take it when you give them your coupon!
I absolutely love that this is online, it saves me that moment of having no idea how much something is going to actually cost there.
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