This weekend I went to a store I don’t usually frequent.  Right here where I live we have a small independent grocery store that is available for emergencies, but I wouldn’t rely on it.  30 miles away “in town” I shop at a large chain store (Market Street).  Halfway between here and there is another small chain store (Lowe’s) that is, appropriately, halfway between the two.  We get their sale flyer every week but I usually don’t see anything compelling enough to make a separate stop.  This week, however…

The front page showed whole boneless ribeye roasts for $3.99/lb.  I don’t know exactly what it usually is for ribeye at other stores, but I’m guessing it’s quite a bit more than that. (Later note: The new Market Street ad has ribeye steaks on sale for $5.99.)  It was enough to get me looking at the rest of the ad and I found a few other things that I would like, so I made the trip.

Now, I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a whole ribeye, but they’re around 15-20 lbs. without the bones.  I got one a little over 16 and had it cut roughly 1/3 into steaks and the other 2/3 into 2 roasts.  All together it was $65.  Other notable deals:

  • 4 Delimex taquitos, $5.39 each – $2.00/1 coupons.  I bought 4 because that was all that was on the shelf.  I still have 8 of those coupons to use in the next week or two.
  • 2 Lay’s potato chips, $4.29 each – b1g1 sale.
  • 4 large Sunny D, $.99 each
  • 1 Pop Secret 3 pack popcorn, $2.29 – free coupon
  • 1 Post cereal, $3.79 – free coupon
  • 1 loaf of bread, $.88

Total before: $177.07
Total after: $159.75 – $65.04 of which was the meat; who knows what the savings was on that.
10% savings overall, 15% if you take the ribeye away.