At Bargains to Bounty, we prepare store matchups and deal lists for you each week – and encourage you to make use of Meijer mPerks personalized rewards and cashback rewards apps like Ibotta, Checkout 51, Shopmium and Snap by Groupon. Since these offers can be somewhat unique to each user and every shopping trip looks different depending on family needs, we wanted you to see an example of this in action, based on Emily’s shopping this week. Notice that she intentionally chose items that apply toward cash back and Meijer rewards that she was close to completing.
Use your rewards and rebates from last month to pay for groceries this month. Continue to earn and roll your cash back rebates to pay very little out of pocket for groceries.
Note: This is even more fun now since the Meijer mPerks rewards last 28 days and don’t simply expire on the last day of the month.
An example of how to use cash back rewards to pay for your groceries
CASH BACK to SPEND
This is what I earned this month and what I have left from last month to use on my October budget:
- (2) $10.00 Rebate Visa or Master Cards = $20
- $8.00 mPerks Reward
- $5.00 mPerks Reward
- $2.50 Meijer Customer Happy Coupon
- $1.50 Kroger Catalina checkout coupon
- $13.71 from Savingstar
- $31.00 from Ibotta
Total: $81.71
MEIJER SHOPPING TRIP
I clipped the 5% off Grocery mPerks digital coupon before shopping (discount will be shown in final total). Many of these prices/deals end today, October 4:
- (4) Wet n Wild Nail Polish @ $0.99 – used (4) $1.00/1 coupons (from 9-21 SS)
- Bananas – $1.23 – submit for $0.25 Checkout 51 offer
- 1 Orange – $0.69 – submit for $0.25 Checkout 51 offer
- Hunts Tomato Sauce, 8 oz – $0.50 – submit for FREE Hunts Tomato Sauce SavingStar offer
- 1 Kiwi – $0.50
- Simply Potatoes – $2.19 – submit for $1.00 Ibotta offer
- Grapes – $2.42
- 2 Lindsay Olives – $1.50 each – $1.00/2 printable coupon (zip 80123) and $1.00/2 Ibotta offer
- 4 Udi’s Bread – $3.99 each -(4) $1.00/1 Udi’s printable coupons and here and $1.00 Snap by Groupon offer
- 1 Kraft Cheese Slices – $2.00
- 1 Krusteaz Waffle Mix – $2.00 – submit for $0.75 Ibotta offer
- 2 Pillsbury Toaster Strudel – $1.67 each – (2) $0.35/1 coupons (from 9-14 SS) and $0.50/2 Savingstar offer
- 1 Sunbelt Bakery Chewy Granola Bars – $2.50 – $0.55/1 printable coupon (zip 61830) and $1.00 Ibotta offer
- 6 Yoplait Yogurt Cups – $0.50 each -$0.40/6 printable coupon and $0.40/6 Savingstar offer and $0.25 Checkout 51
- 1 Popsicle, 18 ct – $3.50 – $2.00/1 mPerks digital coupon
- 2 Betty Crocker Hello Kitty Fruit Snacks – $1.53 clearance price – $0.50/2 printable coupon and $0.50/2 Savingstar offer
Redeemed $8.00 mPerks reward, $2.50 Meijer Happiness coupon, (2) $10.00 Visa cards and coupons
Total paid = $3.97
Earned $27.40 on this order:
- $8.00 frozen mPerk reward – purchases from today complete my reward
- $12.00 dairy mPerk reward – purchases from today complete my reward
- $1.00 Snap by Groupon
- $3.75 Ibotta
- $0.75 Checkout 51
- $1.90 from Savingstar ($1.87 if they deduct discount from 5% mPerks for tomatoes)
Note: I always redeem my cash back offers when I put my groceries away so I don’t forget.
$67.24 is the new cash back total (includes $20 mPerks rewards, $1.50 Kroger checkout coupon, and cash left from Savingstar and Ibotta)
+ $7.40 in rebates from Ibotta, Savingstar, Checkout 51 and Snap by Groupon to save for next month.
She started with $81.71 and after spending $34.47 at Meijer, still has $74.64 in the monthly grocery budget!
Meijer has some other great deals this week if you are shopping today. Check out the Meijer matchups here.
Humor says
Could you describe how you use software to convert files from pdf tom jpg for Checkout 51? Haven’t been able master this. Thanks.
melissa1 says
I use the app on my phone.
kathryn says
I use all my rebates, cash back from various apps and my mperks rewards on groceries to bring my out of pocket down from my weekly budget and put that money in my vacation. It’s a ton of money we found out as we started saving it 🙂
Melody says
What is a Meijer customer happy coupon??
Kristy says
Yes, I was wondering the same thing. What is a Meijer Happiness coupon?
Stone says
Depending on the store and the customer service counter clerk and also depending on what the problem may be the clerk can issue this printout from the register called a Happiness coupon to correct small problems that may not otherwise be easily fixed. For example I had a $5.00 off total purchase coupon on a $30.00+ order. I rarely have to return something but in this case I made a return that was around $14.00 but the register only wanted to give me about $12.00 back because of the $5.00 off total purchase coupon. So the clerk gave me the $12.00 back and a $2.50 Customer Happiness Coupon to make up for the register because my original coupon was good on any purchase. Very nice way to keep customer satisfaction up on little errors such as that.
Again depends on the store, the clerk, and who knows the way the stars align, and of course what the error may be if you can get one or not…..
Hope that helps – have a great week! 🙂
Heather says
The savingstar offer for hunts tomato sauce gave me .50 back even though I used the 5% meijer mperk. .05 moneymaker!
Kelly says
I haven’t tried the cash back offers, but I’m loving the new mperks rewards! This month I earned $61. So between those, the 5% off mperk and other coupons, I spent only $27.88 this week and saved over $133!!
Kelly says
AND, my total before all of that counted toward this month’s rewards. So, even though I only spent $27.88, I got almost $150 toward my new rewards! I wasn’t expecting that!
kristy says
WOW!! and i thought i was good!!
I realize i need to step up my game.
LOL!! 😉
melissa1 says
I am not always that good, I just happen to have meat in the freezer and other meal stuff. Hoping to roll everything for odds and ends this month.
Bettina says
Besides the mperks, can you use any of these other apps on a regular old computer? I don’t have a smart phone. How easy is it to load receipts?