Today I waited in the checkout line for 20 minutes for the checker to scan over 200 coupons in a tall stack for the person in front of me. The customer was "buying" four boxes of some kind of moisturizer in lipstick like tubes, packed 50 or more to a box. There was a coupon for each tube of moisturizer, and each one had to be scanned. The checker was scanning them as fast as she possibly could. I looked over at the next isle and there was another customer with boxes of moisturizer and coupons.
Meanwhile I had refrigerated and perishable food items which I had hoped to last about 5 days. I think the prepared meals are probably going to be ok, but the deli turkey slices barely make it to their sell by date even without such additional challenges.
It wasn't the time wasted that bothered me as much as the possibility of my $100 worth of actual food going bad.
I had half a mind to just walk out of the store leaving my stuff on the scanner belt in protest. I might have except for fears that if I did that, they'd possibly discontinue some of my favorite items next time. Likewise if I refused to buy the turkey slices, they might well discontinue that variety and replace it with some new variety I can't stand. That sort of thing seemed to have happened before. So I never "protest" at the store. If something goes bad early, I'll just throw it out at home.
Most grocery store coupons are for items you would be better off not buying anyway. In the few instances where they give me coupons for things I regularly buy, which happens sometimes, I immediately throw them out. I never remember to bring them to the store anyway, and every time I think about them or try to remember them or find them or go back to get them uses up my time. I think the whole "coupon" thing is a big waste of time and I don't want to support it in any way.
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