Both Meijer and Kroger have 10 for $10 sales going on this week. You’ll want to pay close attention to the products that are eligible — I actually made a mistake this morning shopping at Meijer. Can you pick it out?

Here’s the mistake. The chocolate-flavored Chex Mix is NOT included in the 10 for $10 sale.

How did I catch that one? I bought only the items that were on the 10 for $10 list. The pre-coupon total for 11 items (you get one freebie on this promotion) should have been $10.

Instead, the clerk rang up more than $14 worth.

Whoa!

She and I both checked the sales flier. We realized that only certain varieties of Chex Mix were on sale, and the chocolate trail mix flavor I put in my shopping cart apparently is not one. I ran back to the snack aisle to switch out the Chex Mix to another flavor and went home with a much better total.

You see, I had coupons for all of those 10 for $10 products except the Meijer brand peaches.

I walked out of the store paying only $4.20.

One of the other clerks was chatting with us as my total rang up. She said she finds it frustrating to shop with coupons because “When I have a coupon, it’s not on sale. When it’s on sale, I don’t have a coupon.”

I told her “That’s why, when a coupon matches up to a sale, I jump on it.”

Check back later for a Kroger report. I’ve got a shopping list figured out for that sale too.