ALWAYS break down the prices...

Here I sit on a Sat. morning trying to get my coupons together and I was looking thru the Target sale ad and came across a box of 30 Quaker Chewy bars for $4.99.  That sounded like a great price and I was going to Target anyway today and I have a $.55 off coupon, so when I broke it down to unit pricing, here's what I discovered....

Target:
30 count $4.99
minus $.55 coupon
= $4.44

now divide that by 30 for price per bar and that's 15cents per bar.  pretty good, huh?  well when I broke it down using Kroger's ad, here's what I figured out...

Kroger:
10 count $1.49
minus the same $.55 off coupon
= $.94 divided by 10 and that comes out to 9cents per bar!!! 

multiply that times 3 to equal the 30 count box at Target and the SAME 30 bars are $2.82 at Kroger!!!  That will save me $1.62! 

so lesson learned...ALWAYS break deals down to unit pricing! You may be surprised!