Thursday’s Courier-News has a story about me, Dominick’s, coupons, and saving.
We also went shopping this week to Meijer so that the reporter could see how we do “what we do” — stacking coupons and following sales — to cut over $48 off this week’s grocery bill:
She may not be a comic book novel hero, but Jill Cataldo of Huntley does save the world — money, actually — with her coupon-related website, blog and classes.
And she recently became a reluctant shopper’s champion, too, outing grocery store chain Dominick’s for the amount of out-of-date goods it had on its shelves.
“I have no desire to become the expired-food crusader for all of our stores. Dominick’s has long had a problem of not rotating any of their stock,” Cataldo said. “I’m not the activist type, but sometimes we have to raise our voices.”
The issue came to a head last week when Chicago news media — some members of whom follow Cataldo online — picked up on postings concerning the issue with the Safeway-owned Chicago chain.
soapboxtray says
Very nice article. Thanks for sharing!
cg1 says
Jill, do you think you’ll be following up down the road, say 6 months from now to see if Dom’s did more than a temporary purge of expireds? It just doesn’t sound like they’ve got the manpower/payroll structure in place to do it regularly as needed.
brc says
Nicely balanced perspective!
Wendolyn says
Wonderful story Jill.