Kelleytoons Posted September 19, 2014 Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 Today when doing the shopping I saw that Publix had gas cards on sale in our area. I checked and this deal is also good in Miami (and I know we have at least one other C-Max owner there) as well as the Atlanta area (ditto). If you are near a Publix I would suspect you also get the same deal. You get $10 off a $50 gas card (it's a coupon deal but like all supermarkets they will normally get the coupons for you, or have them in the front of the store). The cards come for various stations (but I always get Shell cards). You can buy as many cards as you have multiples of $50 in your grocery order (so I spent $150+ in groceries and bought 3 gas cards as well). In essence you get 20% off gas, so right now gas is effectively around $2.50 for me. Combined with Maximis sipping of it, I feel like I can drive *anywhere*. If you use gas I cannot absolutely understand why you wouldn't want to take advantage of this deal (which occurs at least once a month, and sometimes more frequently). ScubaDadMiami 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Smith Posted September 20, 2014 Report Share Posted September 20, 2014 helluva deal... wish we had that up here. i got a 10 cent discount on fuel when I filled up today as a result of my grocery purchases... wish I could get fuel discounts based on the amount of beer i buy...:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelleytoons Posted September 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2014 Oddly enough (mostly because I'm not a beer drinker and thus never buy any -- we're hosting tennis Monday for another community and they want to have beer there for folks afterwards so I picked up some today) beer was part of my shopping today and the gal checking me out told me that it could not be used towards the gas card purchases (IOW, the $50 you have to spend to quality for one card). I quipped that's most likely because they don't want to encourage drinking and driving ("Hey, you with the beer in your cart! We are NOT selling you any gas cards!") I have enough cards now to literally last me through until next summer, based on the miles I drive, and Maximis' lean tastes. The gas card deal is through Sunday, so for those of you who can take advantage you really ought to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockwallRick Posted September 20, 2014 Report Share Posted September 20, 2014 My Wife says the prices are too high at Publix, but she likes their Fried Chicken!! :drool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Smith Posted September 20, 2014 Report Share Posted September 20, 2014 the publix delis make a pretty mean sub too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelleytoons Posted September 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2014 (edited) Publix prices aren't any higher than Winn-Dixie (and they often have BOGOs on stuff I buy all the time, which are *real* steals -- I've saved up to $100 just on those some weeks). While they say they are competitive with Wally-World I do think WW is cheaper overall (except without the BOGOs) but I would never do my grocery shopping there. And I love the Publix Delis -- best cheese and meat you can get. Their bakery also blows away any other store I've ever shopped at (in over half a century). They will even bake custom stuff for you (so I've had them make, for example, Rye rolls) for no more than the cost of the regular stuff. Really hard to beat them in any aspect (although I do admit I stop at Winn-Dixie from time to time for their rotisserie turkey. Love that stuff!). However -- Rick, I've found that you absolutely *cannot* argue with the wife. Kind of like the old one where she says "Don't confuse me with the facts!!" So, I would NOT recommend you point out that overall Publix isn't any higher in prices (and may be lower) because it's a lose/lose proposition (in my household I do all the shopping -- well, I'm retired and I have plenty of time, but I also like controlling how the money is spent, although I tell my wife *I'M* doing her a favor :>). Edited September 20, 2014 by Kelleytoons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomsHugs Posted September 24, 2014 Report Share Posted September 24, 2014 I compared Publix to Kroger item-by-item since I buy the same stuff over & over again. Publix is no more nor less than Kroger over time. I like Publix better mainly because their aisles are wider & cleaner (don't pack stuff in aisles). Kroger is crowded & hard to get through. I like Publix's frozen fish with each filet individually wrapped in a package. I also like their produce layout. Then there's the fact that Publix is employee owned & by George, their employees care about the customers as a result... IMHO. That's my 2 cents worth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveofDurham Posted September 24, 2014 Report Share Posted September 24, 2014 That's my 2 cents worth.That's mighty close to the catchphrase for the Food Lion spokeslion. "That's just my two cents." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelleytoons Posted September 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2014 What are people going to say when they stop making pennies? (LOL -- but they will, and sooner than later). We hardly ever hear the catchphrase "Well, that's my two mills worth" (and for you kids, look it up -- I am NOT talking about a million dollars. Once upon a time there was something smaller than even a penny). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveofDurham Posted September 24, 2014 Report Share Posted September 24, 2014 What are people going to say when they stop making pennies? (LOL -- but they will, and sooner than later). We hardly ever hear the catchphrase "Well, that's my two mills worth" (and for you kids, look it up -- I am NOT talking about a million dollars. Once upon a time there was something smaller than even a penny). The mil (one thousandth of a dollar OR one tenth of a penny) still lives today! We C-Max owners may forget since we go longer between fill-ups, but gas stations use the mil in their pricing - it's the 9/10ths tagged on at the end. Except for Donny's Discount Gas where it's only 8/10ths! The mil (one thousandth of an inch) and tenths of a mil (one ten thousandth of an inch) are also used to specify and describe paint thickness - for example the base (color) coat on a car might be 1.2 mils thick and the clear coat 2.4 mils thick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveofDurham Posted September 24, 2014 Report Share Posted September 24, 2014 One more gas station sign highlighting the power of the mil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelleytoons Posted September 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2014 (edited) Yeah, but more and more gas stations are eliminating the mil designation. Pennies are next. Trust me. My parents used to have a collection of mils (and Indi... ahem, Native American Head Nickels). That seems to have been lost due to moves/death. Edited September 24, 2014 by Kelleytoons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveofDurham Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 Yeah, but more and more gas stations are eliminating the mil designation. Pennies are next. Trust me. My parents used to have a collection of mils (and Indi... ahem, Native American Head Nickels). That seems to have been lost due to moves/death. I never know what I am going to learn on this forum. I didn't know that the US spelling of the word for one thousandth of a dollar is mill or mille. I thought it was mil which is apparently the UK spelling for the currency/financial unit. I knew that the US Mint had half-cent (5 mill) coins years ago. Did you parents have something of a smaller denomination? Was it from the US (federal) or from a state/local government? Are you finding gas stations that are ending their prices with the pennies and leaving off the 9/10'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelleytoons Posted September 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 Nearly all modern gas stations leave off the fractions -- for one thing, they use electronic signs which don't have room for them. As a matter of fact, I can't even think of the last time I saw a gas station that didn't have an LED sign (I'm sure they exist, I just don't remember seeing them). Heck, the way gas prices fluctuate you'd need a full time employee just to change any manual one <g>. I'm not sure what my parents had in that collection -- like small boys I was interested in such things for about 10 seconds and then I wanted to go outside to play. I'm not even sure the last time I saw it, but it has to have been over half a century ago (and that fact alone makes me feel *very* old). I just remember that the mills were tiny little things (seems to me they were about the size of a small watch battery, except much thinner) and IIRC (and I may not) they were also colored -- blue and yellow seems to stand out in my mind (but again, I would not reliably swear to this, particularly when a quick internet search would most likely confirm/deny it much easier than rooting around in my mind). By the time I was shown them they weren't being used, though (and I think it's more than possible the same may be true for me and perhaps my youngest grandchild, who right now is a bit too young to deal with money except to cause us to spend it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveofDurham Posted October 29, 2014 Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 Nearly all modern gas stations leave off the fractions -- for one thing, they use electronic signs which don't have room for them. As a matter of fact, I can't even think of the last time I saw a gas station that didn't have an LED sign (I'm sure they exist, I just don't remember seeing them). Heck, the way gas prices fluctuate you'd need a full time employee just to change any manual one <g>. I'm not sure what my parents had in that collection -- like small boys I was interested in such things for about 10 seconds and then I wanted to go outside to play. I'm not even sure the last time I saw it, but it has to have been over half a century ago (and that fact alone makes me feel *very* old). I just remember that the mills were tiny little things (seems to me they were about the size of a small watch battery, except much thinner) and IIRC (and I may not) they were also colored -- blue and yellow seems to stand out in my mind (but again, I would not reliably swear to this, particularly when a quick internet search would most likely confirm/deny it much easier than rooting around in my mind). By the time I was shown them they weren't being used, though (and I think it's more than possible the same may be true for me and perhaps my youngest grandchild, who right now is a bit too young to deal with money except to cause us to spend it). Most gas stations in NC have light up signs and all of the light up signs still have the 9/10's on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveofDurham Posted October 29, 2014 Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 The first Publix in the Research Triangle Park NC area opened today in Cary. According to WRAL news, "In-ad coupon: The ad has a coupon on the front page for $10 off the purchase of a $50 Gas Card with a grocery purchase of $50 or more. See ad for details. Coupon valid October 29 - Sunday, November 2." I found the weekly ad online. The coupon does not say where the gas cards can be used. This is not a convenient location for me, but my wife will be near there on Thursday and Friday taking a class at the NC Bar Association so maybe we will figure out a way to check it out. I hope they pick a Durham or Chapel Hill location soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Smith Posted October 29, 2014 Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 never understood the whole 9/10's thing in the modern era... might as well get rid of it... I'll have to work the math on my next fillup... Class action lawsuit :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelleytoons Posted October 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 Yeah and with gas here now at 2.87 (and falling) those gas cards are a *real* good deal (assuming you use them right away :>). In essence you are then getting gas for 2.31 per gallon, which this old man can't even remember when the price was that low. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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