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A Huge Savings on Thanksgiving Dinner – How I Combined Deals to Effortlessly Save Significant Money

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Walmart Savings Catcher Thanksgiving

A Walmart Savings Catcher Thanksgiving

I am always looking for ways to save a few dollars, but I really don’t like coupons. Sure I use online coupon codes or big dollar coupons for merchants like Staples, but I just don’t have the patience to clip coupons for everyday grocery shopping.

This past week my wife, son and I had a quiet Thanksgiving spent at home where we cooked our own feast. This meant that we had to go purchase all of the traditional foods including: turkey, stuffing, rolls, potatoes, cranberry sauce, green beans and all of the trimmings.

Walmart to the Rescue?

Since I already had plans to visit Walmart to conduct other business, I decided to make it a Savings Catcher Thanksgiving. I have written about Savings Catcher a few times before. It is Walmart’s automatic price matching engine. Right now they match prices to about 100 merchants in my area and double the difference when I load it to Bluebird.

Shopping at Walmart with Savings Catcher helped to make sure I got the best price on all of the ingredients needed for my feast. Or did it? Since Savings Catcher doesn’t include meat, I quickly realized that I may not be saving at all. Walmart’s turkeys were about $1.50 per pound higher than was advertised at my local grocery store.

Making Even More Money By Combining Deals

Smith’s was selling turkey at $.59 a pound, but required a $25 purchase. If I bought all of my groceries at Walmart, then how would I meet the minimum spend at Smith’s?

Thankfully Kroger (Smith’s is a Kroger brand) is running a 4x points promotion on gift cards. To meet the spend, I just bought a $100 gift card and earned $.40 back per gallon of gas. (Ok I actually bought five gift cards to make it an even $2 back.) My wife and I will fill up both of our cars and actually end up making a couple of bucks from the gift card purchases.

Conclusion & Savings Breakdown

Walmart Savings Catcher Thanksgiving

In the end I spent $29 at Walmart on food & supplies and $12 at Smith’s on the turkey. Savings Catcher found a total of $2.99 in savings since Walmart had the lower price on most items. After the savings was doubled, my $41 cost went down to $35. Not bad for a full Thanksgiving dinner with enough leftovers for a week!

The real savings comes when I compare what my cost was to what it would have been if I did all of my shopping at Smith’s or Walmart. Just based on the prices of the few items I saw, I believe my overall cost would have been about 35% higher.

Perhaps you feel this post is stupid, but it is just an example of combining deals with a minimum amount of effort to accomplish a goal. I didn’t have to scope out the best prices for all of the products. I simply found the cheapest turkey, utilized a moneymaking gift card deal and let Walmart take care of the rest so I could focus on saving money on Black Friday & Cyber Monday!

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Shawn Coomer
Shawn Coomerhttps://milestomemories.com/
Shawn Coomer earns and burns millions of miles/points per year circling the globe with his family. An expert at accumulating travel rewards, he founded Miles to Memories to help others achieve their travel goals for pennies on the dollar. Shawn also runs a million dollar reselling business, knows Vegas better than most and loves to spend his time at the 12 Disney parks across the world.

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