Another Starbucks After 2PM Dash (YMMV)

This is another YMMV promotion. If you are a member of the Starbucks rewards program, check your email or the official Starbucks app for a new “must activate first” promotion. It’s the return of the “After 2pm” (local time) Dash! This promotion runs September 26 at open and ends on October 2nd in 2017 at store closing.

If you make four separate purchases, you earn 50 Bonus Stars. If you make a total of six or more, you earn a total of 100 Bonus Stars. The rewards are posted to your account in two phases. Once you get to four transactions, you’ll get the 50 bonus stars. If you make to to 6+, you’ll get another 50 bonus stars. That’s all you’ll get. The promotion does not restart or roll. In other words, if you make 6 or 60 transactions, you’ll get 100 Bonus Stars.

This Weekend, Triple Lucky’s Rewards (must add offer to account)

If you were planning a big grocery shopping spree for the next few days, note that if you are participating in Lucky Rewards, they are offering triple points for purchases made on Saturday and Sunday September 23 and 24 in 2017!

To get the bonus points, you must manually add the offer to your account, either using the Lucky Rewards website, or their mobile app. You won’t get a bonus unless you manually add it! If you plan to make a big purchase, that will definitely be a sizeable bonus.

Screenshot of the offer below:

And if you are going to be there, don’t forget to stock up on Ben and Jerry’s. They are running a promotion that gets you two pints for $4 total. That’s $2 per pint. You must needs buy them in multiples of two pints to get the discount.

Both offers expire Sunday night at the close of business at Lucky’s B&M stores on September 24 in 2017. Coupon synergies 🙂

Refrigerated Perfect Bars arrive at Amazon!

The protein and nutrition bar market is very competitive. It’s a cacophony of choices at the supermarket aisles, with companies big and small, mass-market and health-food-crazed competing. So someone finally figured a way to make another nutritional bar BUT have the store shelf without competition…

… make it a REFRIGERATED BAR!

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Smith Teamaker Bungalow Blend No. 47 for $7.54

It looks like we have an impromptu coffee and tea theme this week, because while surfing around on Amazon, another good deal surfaced. A 20% off clip-on coupon (the green button) can get you the Smith Teamaker Bungalow Blend No. 47 for $7.54 as a one-time-purchase, or slightly less through the “Subscribe and Save” discount.

This is a black tea, from India, blended at the company’s base in India. It is however an Add-ON item, so you need a $25+ order before the shopping cart will allow you to buy it.

PS: if you are looking for ideas on how to reach the $25 limit, check our Add-ON Deal posts, which we’ve had aplenty this week 🙂

6pk Two Moms Soul Sprout Almond Butter Truffles for $3.69

This is such a great deal. I already nom-nom’ed a whole box, and now they are back on sale again, so I’ll definitely be getting more! It’s a 6-pack of Two Moms Soul Sprout Almond Butter Truffles, on sale for $3.69 as stand-alone purchases or $3.51 with the Subscribe-and-Save discount. That price gets you SIX individually wrapped packs! Limit four sets per customer!

But that’s not all. For a limited time, Amazon has a 15% off Clip-ON coupon on this item, dropping the price of the first unit you buy to $3.15 or so. I forgot to take pictures of the food, the only thing left is the package 🙂

There is a catch however, these are ADD-ON items, so Amazon’s shopping cart won’t let you get them unless your order total is $25+. If you max out on this offer, four units of these are under $15 (with the coupon discount), so you’d still need to buy something else to get to $25+. If you need other ideas, check our Add-On Deal posts here.

11oz New England Coffee for under $4 [limit 10]

Coffee time! If you like flavored ground coffee, non-decaf, you are in luck! Amazon appears to have a special buy on this 11 ounce New England Coffee Chocolate Cappuccino, on sale for under $4 as a regular purchase or slightly less as a “Sub & Save”.

Now just because you are buying a bag of flavored coffee, it doesn’t mean you have to brew a basket full of flavored coffee. You can mix and match it with regular coffee, so you get slight flavor, but not the overwhelming flavor some do not like. So as long as you can control what goes into your coffee machine’s basket, you can adjust how much of each coffee to use.

The coffees won’t fight with each other 🙂 Now if you mix two different flavored coffees together, they may start fighting. Or you may make a new coffee blend discovery 🙂

You can buy up to ten bags of this ground coffee at this price. It is an ADD-ON item, so you need an order of $25+, otherwise their computers won’t let you buy it. You can get to $25 with seven bags of this, or any combination of this and other products.

Multiple different flavors and sizes reside on the same product listings, so the review score is not necessarily indicative of this particular blend. You must needs dig into the reviews and filter them for this product. Maybe I need to make a short tutorial on how to do this, since it’s not easy to figure out if you don’t “live” on the Amazon website 🙂

Six Boxes of 18ct STASH Cinnamon Vanilla Herbal Tea for $5 [limit four]

Fall is here, the days are getting shorter, the temperature dropping, the wind picking up. It’s time for some hot tea at night! And if you don’t want to get all buzzed up with caffeine before sleep, how about some herbal tea?

Actually LOTS of herbal tea. For a limited time, Amazon is offering six boxes of the STASH Cinnamon Vanilla Herbal Tea for $5.10. Each box has 18 tea bags. So you are getting over 100 tea bags for $5, that’s around 20 tea bags per $1, a pretty good deal for Portland’s STASH tea!

But that’s not all. If a six-pack is not enough, during this promotion, you are allowed to buy up to four bundles. So, if you max out on the deal, you get over 400 tea bags and pay around $20.

There are different packaging options on the same listing, but it’s the same tea, it averages 4.6 out of 5 based on 49 customer reviews. The list of ingredients are shown over there:

What’s a “sarsaparilla” you ask? Wikipedia has the answers, and the obligatory disambiguations, because there’s two different things with the same name, in the Americas and in India.

TWO CATCHES

There are two catches however: these are currently marked as ADD-ON items, so you must place an order of $25+, otherwise their computers won’t let you buy them. If you max out, that’s $20.40, so you’d need another $5 or more to get over the $25 hump.

The other catch is that the shipping estimate is currently “1 to 2 months”. Often these are modest estimates, so customers won’t be upset if there are delays, but if you need this by a specific date for a specific event and such, don’t count on it getting to you earlier than the estimate.

Lucky’s (Sept 22-24): Buy TWO Ben & Jerry Ice Cream Pints for $4 Total

If you are a fan of Ben and Jerry pints of ice cream, we have great news for you! Rent a U-Haul and head over to Lucky’s grocery stores between Friday morning through Sunday night. They have a two for $4 promotion on pints of B&J ice cream! You have to buy in multiples of two to get the $2 per pint price.

IF you buy one pint, the price is not bad either, but it’s more: it’s $3 for the pint. There’s no coupon code to enter, their cash register automatically adjusts prices. But as always, double check before paying or at least before leaving the store, so you can fix it without having to return to the store!

The promotion runs Friday-Sunday, September 22-24 in 2017 at Lucky’s B&M grocery stores.

Peets Rewards: Triple Points on $10+ purchases

If you are participating in the Peet’s Rewards program and you like to buy coffee beans or ground coffee or boxed tea at their local B&M stores, or like to buy drinks for friends and family, good until 9/24/17, they are running a new promotion that gets you Triple Points every time you make a purchase of $10+ during the promotional period.

With regular rewards, 15 points (15 separate purchases) translate to any FREE handcrafted drink of your choice, any size, any combination. With this triple rewards offer, only five separate purchases (over $10+) can get you any free drink of your choice.

So if you were planning to buy two pounds of coffee and a box of loose leaf tea, instead of buying them all together, space them out during multiple visits, so each order is $10+ 🙂

Their new fall items should also be trickling in. Remember, you can get to $10+ with any combination of drinks, food, coffee cups, coffee beans, etc. Just make sure you pay for all of them in one transaction 🙂

Peetnik Rewards: Double Points on Cold Brew until 9/17/17 PM

The Peets Rewards program is establishing a pattern of frequent and diverse type of promotions. The latest promotion, running until the close of business on Sunday 9/17/17 gets you double points on cold brew purchases. This particular promotion is good on either hand-crafted cold brew drinks (eg black tie or cold brew fog), or any of the bottled (ready-made) cold brews.

Unlike previous offers, this particular promotion can be used as many times as you like during this promotional period, so if you are a fan of Cold Brews, drink away 🙂

If you have the Peetniks app installed, and you haven’t turned off notifications, your phone should be informing you of these. Or if you hate Notifications, you can find the promotions in the “Inbox” of the app:

$20 off your first $35+ Smart and Final order using Instacart

Home deliveries are all the rage these days. Smart and Final is now using Instacart for home deliveries, and to encourage shoppers to try out this service, good until 9/20/17, they are offering a new customer promotion: you get FREE SHIPPING and $20 off your first order of $35+ using Instacart.

To get the discount, use long-winded coupon code SHOPSMARTANDFINAL which may look like a railroad, but it’s simple to type: SHOP SMART AND FINAL 🙂 Delivery and participation may vary by region and local stores. The Instacart website will tell you .

Farberware Rewards returning at Lucky Stores

If you are a regular shopper at Lucky’s and you make $10+ purchases on most visits, and you like Farberware, you may be thrilled to learn that the “Earn Free Farberware” promotion has returned and it’s running until February 6 in 2018, so you have plenty of time (almost five months from today).

You earn one Stamp every $10 spent there. If your purchase is under $10, you earn nothing. They also run promotions at times for more stamps or bonus stamps when purchasing specific products. You have until 2/20/2018 to redeem your stamps for free Farberware products. If you don’t redeem them, they expire.

You have to enter your phone number at checkout when you shop! If you are a Lucky Rewards member, you earn e-stamps, so you don’t have to deal with actual little stamps (which can be easy to lose or misplace). If you are not a rewards member, you’ll get physical stamps.

[DEAD] 16oz Wonderful Pistachios (Roasted, Salted) for $6 [limit ten]

This sale ended for now, but it is recurring, as are many food items…

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25% off Lara Bar 16-pack Clip-ON coupon returns!

Lara Bar fans, unite and take over! The 25% off clip-on coupons are back again at amazon.com for a number of flavors (but not all of them) in 16-packs. As usual, the clip-on coupons work only if Amazon actual (not marketplace sellers) are the seller of a product.

Better yet, the clip-on coupons work on both a normal price or a “Subscribe and Save” (SaS) purchase. Keep in mind, if you do a SaS, the coupon only applies to the first purchase. Subsequent purchases will be based on the future current price of an item.

If you haven’t tried these before, try some of the Coconut flavors, or the Cashew Cookie which only has two ingredients (cashews and dates) and nothing more.

The coupon drops a $15~ 16-pack down to $11.50-ish, making them under 75c per bar.

Starbucks After 2pm Local Time Bonus Stars Returns September 5-11 in 2017

Starbucks Rewards are back with another afternoon dash promotion! If you are eligible for this promotion, you should find this in your email or the Starbucks app inviting you to join or activate. You must needs first join/activate before you earn the bonus!

The bonus is as before. Between September 5-11 (those two dates included) in 2017, AFTER 2pm Local Time, if you make 4 or more purchases you’ll earn 50 Bonus Stars (in addition to the regular stars), OR if you make 6+ purchases, you’ll instead earn 100 Bonus Stars.

Their computer systems will first get award you the 50 Bonus stars once you reach the 4 purchases tier. And once you get to 6+, they’ll send you another 50 Bonus Stars. You won’t earn any additional bonus stars whether you have 6 or 60 purchases during the promotional period.