Lack of Inserts

[all about saving]

So I recently posted somewhere on here that my lack of inserts has become zero the past couple of months and when I inquired with our local paper as to why, they said it was because P&G, SmartSource, etc. felt our area was a seasonal area and that it essentially wasn't worth it to allocate these inserts to our area and that in the summer months we should be getting more inserts. So I wrote to few of these companies and this is what P&G wrote back...

Thanks for contacting P&G about the offers in our recent P&G brandSAVER. I'm so sorry you're disappointed, and I understand you’re feeling let down. P&G continuously tests ways to reach consumers and extend more valuable offers to our most loyal customers, and we’ve transferred some online. You can find most of our offers -- including those for our fabric care brands -- online at www.pgeveryday.com/tag/coupons-offers


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We value your loyalty to P&G and thank you again for reaching out.


P&G Team

[tjthemanto]

Trust me these days the inserts are not that great. Very few high value cpns come these days in the inserts and lot of terms/conditions.

Either the value is too less or lot of multi-buy conditions before you save anything. It will be like buy this and this and this and you will save $ 2.00 . More often than not some expensive product which you rarely buy or need is thrown in the multi-buy mix

So you are NOT really missing much. Most of my inserts go straight in garbage, I don't even give it a second look. I would be surprised even if just 5 % of the cpns in them are worth my time & energy. Plus the expiry dates are also really really tight. Some as less as 30 days ! Hard to find a good price and sale before it expires.

[tjthemanto]

I think they are just trying to go APP based, digital cpns , load offers on you phone, some points loading , checkout rebates, scan a bar code on your phone, give us your email/phone number blah blah these days.

They are more interested invading your privacy, phone, confidentiality and knowing your shopping & spending habits, so they can track you & bombard you.

The old fashioned inserts and tear pad cpns seem to be phased out gradually and/or are getting terrible day by day..forcing you to go the digital way, whether you like it or not.

I wouldn't be surprised if within just the next 5 yrs or so, paper cpns, Inserts, tear pad cpns totally disappear !