Wow.
I guess I'll take this post piece by piece.
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Originally Posted by supafrey
Those people are effectively stealing
This is hardly the case. They aren't stealing from the store, certainly, since manufacturer's coupons are paid out to the store by the manufacturer. Many stores (both of the stores I shop at, for instance) have a policy that only 4 of any given manufacturer's coupon can be doubled per customer. So they have put a rule in place to prevent matching the discount on 1000 bars of Irish Spring. But they are willing to match it 4 times or whatever, because it brings you into the store. And 99/100 coupon clippers don't buy *only* in coupons like the insane-o's on the show last night, so it's still worth it for the store to match mfr's coupons.
One might make the argument that these folks are stealing from the manufacturers. I still don't really buy that, though.
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Originally Posted by supafrey
and usually giant fat ****s.
what can i say? agree, i guess!
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Originally Posted by supafrey
Being proud of consuming tons and tons of things you don't need because you can get away with it is the perfect combination of all of the reasons everyone hates America
The flip side is that only in America can your hard work doing something off-the-wall (e.g., collecting coupons) be realized in dollars. I agree with you re: buying things you don't need. But my first thought was that one could do this and donate all of the non-perishables to a foodbank and all of the hygiene products to a homeless shelter or school. And it turns out that the last guy (and from what I read last night, a lot of coupon-clippers) does exactly that. And the stores know it and are ok with it.
Now, if you think it's stealing only if you don't use it, well
(1) I'd say that can't be a reasonable definition of stealing, and
(2) I think most things end up eaten or donated.
And the donated stuff gets the product out to new households, which is what the coupon campaign was supposed to accomplish for the manufacturer in the first place (which is partially why above I said I don't buy that this is stealing from mfr's).
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Originally Posted by supafrey
Fat ****ing coupon cutting ******s with their smug neck-beards and triple chins.
lol. I don't know what you have against coupon clippers or fat people, but good luck with that, my friend.
Last edited by Wyman; 12-30-2010 at 11:31 AM.
Reason: gf just saw me typing and said "jesus, tee ell dee arr"