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Show SUPERMARKET SAVER Save up to 80 at the supermarket? By Donna Caubarreaux Sounds impossible! Well, smart shoppers are doing it every day through refunding. By combining cents-off coupons on their purchases at the supermarket and then sending in boxtops and, labels to the companies, they can save up to 80 percent on their grocery bill ana can even get the full refund purchase price back from some offers ! Here is a sample offer, Listerine wants you to send in two universal product codes (that is the small section where all the little lines are grouped for electronic registers) for a free bottle of the product, if you send in a penny, they will send you two bottles free. So you buy two bottles and when you do use cents-off coupons to make your purchases. pur-chases. The items cost $2.64. you cut that price by $1.50 with two 75 cent coupons, so the total cost is $1.14. It will cost you 15 cents to mail in the offer and another 1 cent to take advantage of the extra free bottle, so the total cost is $1.30. You mail in the offer and receive two free bottles, if you had to buy them they would cost you the original $2.64. So you have the use of four bottles of the product for only $1.30 which is a 75 ' percent savings to you! Many products have offers like this out, in fact, every major and many minor manufactureres of food items have refund offers out at one time or another. They want you to purchase their product in the hopes that you will switch from the brand you are now using to theirs. So jump on the bandwagon band-wagon and try your hand at slashing your food costs. For a samnlp refund bulletin that, lists several hundred refund offers, send $1 to Shopper's Bonus, P.O. Box 109-SS, Marksville, LA 71351. For a free listing of over forty refund bulletins, send a long self-addressed-stamped envelope to the same address. Here are some offers for you to try. Ragu Foods, Inc., P.O. Box 8179, Clinton, IA 52736. Coupons good for $2.00 on an Italian Meal at Home, send your name, address, city, state and zip code with four labels from any size jar of Ragu Spaghetti Sauce plus a label and or receipt from any item listed in each of the following categories: Ragu Spaghetti Sauce, meat, produce or grocery. You will receive four coupons each good ior 5U cents off on your next purchases. Offer expires March 31, 1980. The R.T. French Co., P.O. 22703, Rochester, NY 14692. 50 cents cash refund, send one boxtop from any package of 16 oz. or 28 oz. French's Big Tate Mashed Potatoes. Whoppers Ice Cream Offer, P.O. Box NB875, El Paso, Tx 79977. $1 cash refund, send the word "Whoppers" from front panel of two 8 oz. bags or five 20 cent bags plus brand name panel from one pint or more of ice cream. Offer expires December 31, 1980. Aim Poncho Offer, P.O. Box 4920, Westbury, NY 11592. Free baseball poncho, in small (35-75 lbs.), medium (70-130 lbs.), or large (125-190 lbs.). Send the words 'Lever Brothers" plus the weight designations cut from any combination of three Aim Toothpaste cartons large, family or super-size for each poncho, plus 50 cents for postage and handling. Indicate the name of your favorite Major League Baseball team as the poncho comes in team colors. A very nice item for big and little fans! Offer expires May 31, 1980. |