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2013 Jewel-Osco freezer deal is February 3: Super Bowl Sunday!

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Jewel-Osco’s annual Freezer Deal is back this Sunday, February 3rd! If you’ve been thinking of getting a second freezer (great for stockpiling meat and frozen food deals) this has to be one of the most economical ways to get one.

This year’s freezer will retail for $169.99, and you will receive a coupon book with $170 worth of coupons inside – basically, you get much of the purchase price back in free-food coupons. In past years, the freezer has been a 5.3 cubic-foot Igloo model. It is about the size of a washer or dryer, but shorter in height.

Jewel-Osco sent over the list of coupons you’ll receive with the freezer. Jewel states, “The vast majority are coupons for one free item. However, a few, including the Woolite, Finish Automatic Dishwashing Detergent and Palmolive, are dollars off coupons.”

* DiGiorno Original Pizza
* Kellogg’s Eggo Waffles
* Jamba Juice Smoothies
* El Monterey Snacks
* Betty Crocker Parlor Perfect
* Green Giant Frozen Boxed Vegetable
* Drive Thru Single Serve Cheeseburgers
* Old Orchard Frozen Juice Concentrate
* Better Oats

* Malt-O-Meal Cereals
* Edy’s Outshine Fruit Bars
* Quaker Soft Oatmeal Cookies
* Kraft Homestyle Mac & Cheese
* Velveeta Cheesy Potatoes
* Johnsonville Chicken Sausage
* Culinary Circle Flatbread or Ultra Thin Crust Pizza
* Cape Cod Potato Chips
* Simply Potatoes Side Dishes
* Little Debbie Bag Donuts
* Jell-O Gelatins, Pudding or Temptations
* Java Delight Coffee UnCup
* Super Chill Lemonade
* Super Chill Tea
* Fla-Vor-Ice Freezer Bars
* Taco Bell Small Shells
* Spikes’ Salsa
* Ragu Traditional Pizza Sauce
* Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce
* Pearls Fresh Cured Green Olives
* McCormick Mexican Seasoning Mix
* Gulden’s Mustard
* Betty Crocker Cupcake Icing
* Ziploc Perfect Portions
* Woolite Laundry Detergent
* Finish Automatic Dishwashing Detergent
* Palmolive Liquid Dish Detergent
* Sylvania CF 13EL Super 830RP
* Kraft Salad Dressing
* Essential Everyday Pasta
* Atkins Frozen Entrée or Frozen Breakfast
* Minute Maid Light Lemonade
* Super Chill Soda
* Hawaiian Punch Juice Drink
* Reames Frozen Pasta
* Louis Kemp Crab Delights or Lobster Delights
* Equaline Allergy Ultratabs
* The booklet will also include a coupon to save $5 on a MoneyGram transaction of up to $50.

Comments

  1. To maximize your savings, hold onto your free-product as long as possible, matching as many of them as you can to Buy One, Get One Free sales in the store — then, you’ll take two home free instead of one! You can always use them up a few days before they expire.

    Two years ago, longtime reader “Your Jewel Cashier” (who, yes, is a Jewel cashier) sent a great list of tips for freezer day to share with readers planning on adding a freezer to the family. I repost it each year around this time…

    KEY POINTS ABOUT THE SALE

    Your Jewel card is required to make the purchase.
    Each store will have approx 50 freezers to sell (bigger stores will have slightly more)

    The ad will clearly state-
    Limit one freezer purchase per customer
    Limit one MFR coupon and one STORE coupon may be used toward freezer purchased.
    [Note from Jill: The store coupon being referred to here would be in the instance that a shopper has a “$10-off-$100” coupon from a mailer.]

    KEY POINTS ABOUT THE FREEZER

    As always, freezers SHOULD NOT be loaded on their backs for transporting purposes, they should be kept upright at all times.

    Please remind readers to not bring their HONDA CIVIC or FORD FUSION to buy the freezer and then expect the 17-year-old bag boy to fit that square peg in a round hole?!?!?!?!

    (Laugh all you want, but this happens numerous times in every store every single year! And then the customer insists that it will fit if you take it out of the box, then it gets scratched up, or the car does, and the customer gets mad at us! Borrow a truck, guys! You should see it, it’s like a clown car experiment gone wrong!)

    The freezer must be plugged in and LEFT ALONE empty for 24 hours to regulate its internal temperature before attempting to fill it.

    This is another interesting phenomenon we watch every year. The customers that buy the freezer and 100% of the food all in the same day at the same time never read the owners manual, which clearly states you can’t fill it until it’s been plugged in for 24 hours (at least that’s what mine said when I bought it 3 years ago.)

    Now we all know they aren’t going to fit that food in the overhead freezer of their refrigerator, and sure enough, they either call back a day or two later and complain that their freezer isn’t working and the ice cream is soft. Or a month later they are returning food saying it’s freezer burned like it had frozen, thawed, and then froze again. And I want to say, “YES! That’s why the freezer came with instructions!”

    One final personal note to those purchasing the freezers this year:

    I know most of us couponers are used to going through self check out when doing “deals”. But if I may, PLEASE if you are getting all, or even half of the free items in one order, please, please, please:

    1) go through a traditional lane
    2) give the cashier your Jewel card and your coupons FIRST before starting your order. You have no idea how much stress and time this saves EVERYONE involved. EVERY SINGLE ONE of those free coupons is set to “beep” with a price prompt, meaning if the cashier gets your coupons at the end of the order they will have to look up every one of your free items on your receipt one by one to find the price. IF the items are on sale with the Jewel card they will have to manually do the math to see the sale price and then manually key in that price as well as write it on the coupon for accounting purposes.

    If you give them the coupons first, they can go through and write down the prices as the items scan which eliminates all the time and effort of having to look each price up. This generally eliminates most all mistakes, the need for manager intervention, and about 10 minutes off your check out time.

    If you have any additional questions about the freezers, you may enjoy reading last year’s freezer discussions, where you’ll find many other answers (a lot of the same questions get asked each year!)

    2012 Jewel-Osco Freezer Deal

    2011 Jewel-Osco Freezer Deal

    2010 Jewel-Osco Freezer Deal

    2009 Jewel-Osco Freezer Deal

  2. Hi Jill,

    I got mine this morning from Crystal Lake Jewel.

    Coupons are all thru 6/30 & are as follows:
    Store-free DiGiorno Pizza
    Mfg-Kellogs Eggo Waffles 6-10 ct
    Mfg-Jamba Juice Smoothies – 8 oz
    Store- El Monterey Snacks – 4-60 oz
    Store-Betty Crocker Parlor Perfect sprinkles 7.2-9 oz
    Store-green Giant bx veggies, 7-10 oz
    Mfg-drive Thru single serve cheeseburger – 4.6. -10 oz
    Mfg-Old Orchard Frz juice concentrate-12 oz
    Store-better oats, 5 ct
    Store-Malt-o-meal, various sizes
    Store-Edys Outshine Fruit Bars. 6-12 ct
    Store-Quaker soft oatmeal cookies 8.8 oz
    Store-Kraft home style Mac & cheese -3.6-4.1 oz
    Store-Velveeta Cheesy Potatoes 9.01-11.75 oz
    Store-Johnsonville Chix sausage, 12 oz
    Store-culinary circle pizza, 12-36 oz
    Store-cape cod potato chips 8-9 oz
    Mfg-simply potatoes side dishes, 24 oz
    Mfg-Little Debbie bag donuts 10-10.5 oz
    Store-jell-o 4 pack
    Store-java delight coffee un-cup-12 ct
    Store- 1 L super chill lemonade
    Store-12 pk super chill tea
    Store – flavorice 16 ct
    Store – taco bell, small shells, 4.5 oz
    Store- spikes salsa 16 oz
    Store- Ragu Pizza Sauce, 14 oz
    Store- ocean spray cranberry sauce, 14 oz
    Store – pearls fresh-cured green olives, 6 oz
    Store-McCormick Mexican seasoning mix 0.87-1.5 oz
    Store-Gulden’s mustard -12 oz
    Store- Betty Crocker cupcake icing, 8.4 oz
    Store-ziplock perfect portions,75 ct
    Store-save $5, 1 Woolite laundry detergent, 100 oz
    Store- save $5, 1 finish dishwashing detergent, 45 ct quantum or 60 ct 2 in 1 gel pacs or power balls
    Mfg- $1/1 Palmolive dish detergent, 25 oz or lgr
    Store- 1free sylvania cf 13el super 830rp light bulb, 1 ct
    Store- $5 on money gram
    Store- 1 free Kraft salad dressing, 8 oz
    Store – essential everyday pasta 16-25 oz
    Store – Atkins Frozen entree/breakfast 7 or 9 oz
    Mfg-minute maid light lemonade, 59 oz
    Store – 2L Super chill soda
    Store – hawaiian punch juice drink ,32 oz
    Mfg-reames frozen pasta, 12 oz
    Store-Louis Kemp crab Delights 8 oz
    Store- equaline allergy ultra tabs 48 ct
    Store-culinary circle Italian favorites pizza, 12.6-16.2 oz

    Hope that helps

    Maggie

  4. Thanks. I see that my freezer came with an energy use sticker. $26.00 a year for the continental electric.

  5. I’ve bought a freezer every year for the past 3 and have used my coupons for free items during the Easter ham deals requiring a minimum purchase. Usually there are some items that historically will not go BOGO, and it’s a great way to get a free ham as well!

  6. Unfortunately, my freezer doesn’t work. No, we didn’t tip it, yes, we let it sit 24 hrs. before plugging it in. We let it run 24 hours following the instruction manual. Nothing. Lots of humming, weird plastic smell, but didn’t cool at all. Jewel says they will do an exchange, so I guess I’m lugging it back. Hope the next one works! Does anyone know if there will be a separate blog article just dealing with the free coupons that came with the freezer?

  7. Does anybody know if this deal is still going? I live in Aurora and my closest Jewel is kind of small so I am not sure if they will still have freezers available.

  10. You can stack man coup with jewel store coup on some of the free freezer items right?

  11. I got mine last night but my jewels in the area had them for 149.00 plus coupons and a bonus 25.00 gift card.. 99.00 would of been better but hey i’m still making out on the free Items! So will there be a list to match up the free item coupons on here?

  12. Can they credit you if I already bought it for full price and now its marked down to $99?

  13. Our store is now selling them at $149 with a $50 gift card and the $170 in coupons.

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