Normally my wife has something like a $400 total coming down to the mid-late $100s, so the manager knows her by name now.
mine to! They’ll joke about it. “not quite as good this time” “wow, that’s a deal!” they don’t know each other at all out side of the checkout lane.
One nice thing is she can hit target, cub (Supervalue) Rainbow (roundy’s) aldi, Costco, dollar store, Sams, walgreens and CVS and travel a total from leaving the house and getting back of 3 miles. It’s an all day adventure that I don’t like to go on (she loves it though) where she comes home and adds up the savings. Normally it’s 4 figures.
My kids would always ask me as I pulled in with a carful of almost free groceries, “did you make the manager cry again, Mom”?
Now they’re well-trained shoppers, too.
The only discouraging part is when, after all the hard work of couponing, we stand behind 3 carts of EBT-funded steaks and groceries NOT EVEN ON SALE!