Double Coupons

When / where I have shop, I have options. Or maybe that is propaganda that I have been fed. In my youth (or childhood), smart women shoppers used coupons and bought items that were on sale. The goal is to hit a sale in a store on the item with the coupon. Then there were other incentives... How about hitting the item that is on sale with a coupon during double coupon day. That means that a 25¢ off coupon on double coupon day would have a discount value of 50¢.
coupon [koo-pon, kyoo-] noun

1. a portion of a certificate, ticket, label, advertisement, or the like, set off from the main body by dotted lines or the like to emphasize its separability, entitling the holder to something, as a gift or discount, or for use as an order blank, a contest entry form, etc.
   
   
2. a separate certificate, ticket, etc., for the same purpose.

I use the first pronunciation.

Etymology
French, from Old French, piece, from couper to cut

or from French, from Old French colpon piece cut off, from colper to cut, variant of couper;

Sometimes I wonder whom one should trust when it comes to etymologies.

But I digress. I never got into the coupon clipping mindset. I also have seldom been interested in what is on sale in the market. Most of what's in the market are items that I never buy: paper products (plates, napkins), red meat, sweet drinks, canned vegetables. I buy beans, and grains, and unsweetened juices. I buy good breads that have fiber and lower calorie counts. I stay away from desserts, most things from the appetizing section, and most things from the chafing dishes. I hang out in the produce department. You get the picture.

So I have learned in the past year that giving the grocery store your phone number that is (or should be) attached to a card that they have issued, the prices would/should lower. Not so. They have something called digital coupons. Does anyone think I'm going to go to the grocery store webpage and actually print or clip coupons? Forget it. So I call the toll-free number and get someone from the 3rd world to do it for me.

To be honest, Frank, and Ernest, (but not Curt), I feel more at home in the discount stores such as Aldi, ValuMart, or even the Dollar Store. Although I tend to avoid produce at the Dollar Store. I never quite get the hang of the digital coupons, and I'm tempted to just ring things up at the self-check check out and then just leave everything there and walk out if the prices are too high.

I ' m a shopping nightmare. It obviously wasn't my life's calling.