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answer today: WOOD

Can’t make money on pasta these days.

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@niniss said in Boar's Head deli meat recall due to listeria outbreak:

@ctujackbauer shot, I just bought some Friday. so what am I supposed to do, bring the food back to the store?

Yes. Although are you sure it’s on the product list? If you bought it Friday, most of those on the product list are past the sell-by date.

2 dead from Boar’s Head.

This recall affects mostly liverwurst and a large amount of ham products.

FDA announcement:
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/boars-head-provisions-co–expands-recall-ready-eat-meat-and-poultry-products-due

Full product list from the FDA:
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media_file/documents/Recall-023-2024-EXP-Product_Information_Sheet.pdf

@mrvietnam said in UPDATED 7/23 Big Lots to close 149 stores, list in OP:

@ctujackbauer said in UPDATED 7/23 Big Lots to close 149 stores, list in OP:

@mrvietnam said in UPDATED 7/23 Big Lots to close 149 stores, list in OP:

@my4mainecoons said in UPDATED 7/23 Big Lots to close 149 stores, list in OP:

hopefully @MrVietnam won’t be stuck with a bunch of gc’s.
The Big Lots near me recently reopened after we got flooded last summer. I have to assume it was worth the cost to restore it although the store has never seemed busy and I never find anything that can’t be bought for less elsewhere.

The most MrVietnam will be out is a $15 gift card that I only paid about $12 for. There were only 3 Big Lots stores within 10 miles of my house when I left. Hopefully at least one will remain in business.

Buena Park is a good store, it’s just in a somewhat-questionably sketchy area. Use up that gift card

Thanks for the info that Buena Park is still open. That means 2 out of the 3 Big Lots in my area survived the cut! With that said I think I will stick to a Walmart gift card the next time TCB has a bonus available.

I believe Walmart has a low maximum number of gift cards you can use in one transaction when purchasing online (3, 4, or 5 gift cards.) I don’t know about the in-store limit.

Target lets you combine gift cards into a singular balance with the app.

@my4mainecoons said in PANERA Sip Club 3 mo. Free for Returning Members:

Cheaper menu items, more sugary items and this offer-- doesn’t sound like they’re doing well.

Private company looking to go public in 2024 or 2025.

You have to be profitable for a year to do that. The best way is to discount expensive stuff via coupons, it decreases margins but gooses up sales revenue quarter after quarter for a year. The problem is that if you discount long enough, you’ll think you’re shopping at Kohl’s and not buying a sandwich and soup combo.

Here are some California closures (source, Nexstar Media who seems to be the only one covering this) :

•Anaheim: 1670 W Katella Avenue; Anaheim, CA 92802
•Anaheim: 6336 E Santa Ana Canyon Road; Anaheim, CA 92807
•Atascadero: 2240 El Camino Real; Atascadero, CA 93422
•Atwater: 1085 Bellevue Road; Atwater, CA, 95301
•Bakersfield: 1211 Olive Drive; Bakersfield, CA 93308
•Bakersfield: 2621 Fashion Place; Bakersfield, CA 93306
•Beaumont: 1782 E 2nd Street; Beaumont, CA 92223
•Camarillo: 353 Carmen Drive; Camarillo, CA 93010
•Santa Clarita/Canyon County: 19331 Soledad Canyon Road; Canyon County, CA 91351
•Chico: 1927 E 20th Street; Chico, CA 95928
•Concord: 2060 Monument Boulevard; Concord, CA 94520
•Corona: 740 N Main Street; Corona, CA 92880
•Culver City: 5587 Sepulveda Boulevard; Culver City, CA 90230
•Delano: 912 County Line Road; Delano, CA 93215
•El Cajon: 1085 E Main Street; El Cajon, CA 92021
•Fairfield: 1500 Oliver Road; Fairfield, CA 94534
•Folsom: 9500 Greenback Lane, Ste 22; Folsom, CA 95630
•Fresno: 7370 N Blackstone Avenue; Fresno, CA 93650
•Gilroy: 360 E 10th Street; Gilroy, CA 95020
•Hercules: 1551 Sycamore; Hercules, CA 94547
•Indio: 42225 Jackson Street, Ste B; Indio, CA 92203
•La Mesa: 6145 Lake Murray Boulevard; La Mesa, CA 91942
•Livermore: 4484 Las Positas Road; Livermore, CA 94551
•Lompoc: 1009 N H Street, Ste M; Lompoc, CA 93436
•Long Beach: 2238 N Bellflower Boulevard; Long Beach, CA 90815
•Los Banos: 951 W Pacheco Boulevard; Los Banos, CA 93635
•Manteca: 1321 West Yosemite, Avenue; Manteca, CA 95337
•Merced: 665 Fairfield Drive; Merced, CA 95348
•Milpitas: 111 Ranch Drive; Milpitas, CA 95035
•Modesto: 3900 Sisk Road; Modesto, CA 95356
•Oceanside: 1702 Oceanside Boulevard; Oceanside, CA 92054
•Ontario: 4430 Ontario Mills Parkwasy; Ontario, CA 91764
•Placerville: 47 Fair Lane; Placerville, CA 95667
•Rancho Santa Margarita: 30501 Avenida De Las Flores; Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688
•Redlands: 810 Tri City Center; Redlands, CA 92374
•Riverside: 2620 Canyon Springs Parkway; Riverside, CA 92507
•Rohnert Park: 565 Rohner Park Expressway; Rohner Park, CA 94928
•Sacramento: 6630 Valley Hi Drive; Sacramento, CA 95823
•Sacramento: 8700 La Riviera Drive; Sacramento, CA 95826
•Salinas: 370 Northridge Mall; Salinas, CA 93906
•San Bernardino: 499 W Orange Show Road; San Bernardino, CA 92408
•Santa Clara: 3735 El Camino Real; Santa Clara, CA 95051
•Santa Maria: 1417 S Broadway; Santa Maria, CA 93454
•Santa Paula: 568 W Main Street, Ste B; Santa Paula, CA 93060
•Santa Rosa: 2055 Mendocino Avenue; Santa Rosa, CA 95401
•Simi Valley: 1189 Simi Town Center Way; Simi Valley, CA 93065
•Stockton: 2720 Country Club Boulevard; Stockton, CA 95204
•Temecula: 27411 Ynez Road: Temcula, CA 92591
•Tracy: 2681 N Tracy Boulevard; Tracy, CA 95376
•Turlock: 1840 Countryside Drive; Turlock, CA 95380
•Ukiah: 225 Orchard Plz; Ukiah, CA 95482
•Vacaville: 818 Alamo Drive; Vacaville, CA 95688
•Visalia: 2525 S Monney Boulevard; Visalia, CA 93277
•Woodland: 52 W Court Street; Woodland, CA 95695

@mrvietnam said in UPDATED 7/23 Big Lots to close 149 stores, list in OP:

@my4mainecoons said in UPDATED 7/23 Big Lots to close 149 stores, list in OP:

hopefully @MrVietnam won’t be stuck with a bunch of gc’s.
The Big Lots near me recently reopened after we got flooded last summer. I have to assume it was worth the cost to restore it although the store has never seemed busy and I never find anything that can’t be bought for less elsewhere.

The most MrVietnam will be out is a $15 gift card that I only paid about $12 for. There were only 3 Big Lots stores within 10 miles of my house when I left. Hopefully at least one will remain in business.

Buena Park is a good store, it’s just in a somewhat-questionably sketchy area. Use up that gift card

@dilly101 said in P&G Good As Gold Rebate $15 WYS $50 or $5 WYS $20 (different rebate) (limit 2) ends 9/8/24:

Target stores have a Target Circle deal this week that gives you a $15 Target gift card when you spend $50 or more on select home care essentials, and many of these same products are included (Bounty, Charmin, Gain, Tide, Cascade…).
There’s no reason that same receipt can’t be used for this rebate, right? $50 worth for $20 would be a really great deal.

As long as it isn’t a coupon. Since this is a gift card received back, there is a little risk that P&G looks at it as a coupon instead of a gift card received for purchase. IIRC, Target shows the qualifying items for the gift card back in print on the receipt.

Here’s an example of the risk. I bought 4 qualifying P&G items and it shows up as a coupon on the e-receipt (online purchase) even though I just got a gift card back. P&G would most definitely count the gift card as a coupon in my example, see picture:

The discounted total even shows up as the item total on the receipt too.

I was a fan of Redbox: they were in every store that was within walking distance, they carried blu-rays, and they served rural customers as well as us urbanites. I had over 200 rentals in a span of about 14 years and I had spent $52 out of pocket after promo codes and free rentals. So about 26 cents per rental.

That company totally went off the rails and literally paid nobody for the last 2 years. The pandemic may have jumpstarted its date with destiny (bankruptcy) but they were a unique store in its time of post-Blockbuster.

@mtnagel said in Nestle Summer Rewards $20 back on $40 6/28 - 8/11:

Gotta love a 217 page pdf of qualifying products - https://snippdocs.blob.core.windows.net/docs/Nestle_Summer_Rebate_2007553/Qualifying Product List.pdf

It would be soul-destroying to buy $40 worth of Nestle groceries and then if you misread the qualifying UPC and it put you under $40, disqualifying you from the rebate.

They expired my CVS bonus early. I suppose I can resort to taking screenshots of this bonus after completing the first transaction. I waited more than 24 hours, only to see my bonus go poof

Ever since ibotta started trading as a public corporation this year, I’ve had more problems with bonuses disappearing and customer service issues for rebates that I earned than I’ve had in ibotta’s first 8 years.

You already can’t buy a third-party gift card using an Amazon gift card. Now, Amazon has increased the minimum amount for an Amazon e-gift card to $5.00 and also changed the one-time balance reload amount to $5.00 too.

This is important for those who have prepaid virtual credit cards where you’re trying to send an Amazon gift card to yourself.

@collector5 said in Official Disney Movie Insider Master Thread:

Have not seen any posts here lately and have not received any bonus codes from Disney.
Anyone know what is going on?

DMI restricted movie ticket purchases to 100 points, no matter how many tickets you buy. Disney has been going through a cost-cutting phase, and DMI was one of the targets. Customer service is sparse, the ability to earn points has been severely curtailed.

The other two major movie studios with rewards programs recently shut theirs down entirely. Sony Rewards shut down a few days ago, you have until the end of the year to redeem points but can’t earn them. Universal All-Access Rewards at least gave users notice before shutting down.