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Giant Food Makes Digital Coupons More Accessible

Giant digital coupon for TideGiant Food, a grocery chain with 162 stores in the Mid-Altantic region, just announced it has installed “Savings Stations” in each of its stores to make use of digital coupons easier.

These large screen kiosks at the front of each store allow a shopper to simply scan their loyalty card or enter their phone number and then all that week’s advertised digital coupons from their circular are automatically loaded onto their account.

Giant Food Savings Station - digital coupon kiosk

Since 2022, Consumer World and other leading consumer organizations have been calling on top grocery executives to end the digital discrimination of seniors, low income folks, and others who don’t have smartphones or the internet or who are not tech-savvy enough to use supermarket apps to gain access to the grocery savings offered by digital coupons.

To date, Ahold-Delhaize (parent company of Stop & Shop, Giant Food, and Food Lion) and Kroger have heeded the call among others. It is now time for all the various Albertsons supermarket banners like Safeway, Vons, Star Market, Jewel-Osco, etc. to do the same thing and end digital discrimination.

With grocery prices as high as they are now because of inflation and tariffs, every shopper should be able to easily access all supermarket discounts whether they are tech-savvy or not.

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Miracle Blood Glucose Meter – No Finger Pricks?

For decades, diabetics have had to prick a finger to get a drop of blood on a test strip that is then inserted into a meter to quickly display a blood glucose reading.

Then a CGM — a continuous glucose meter — which attaches to your upper arm was invented. It transmits your reading to a cellphone app. It still has to slightly puncture the skin when first applied.

Now, miracle of miracles (if you believe their ad) comes the Pryxo non-invasive blood glucose monitor. You simply stick your finger in it, and five seconds later the digital display shows your reading.


If you saw this ad or one like it while watching other videos online and clicked it, you might well have seen this next:

*MOUSE PRINT:

scam warning

Our advice, save your money. You will probably receive a pulse oximeter to give you your oxygen saturation level and heart rate, not a device to measure your blood glucose. No consumer device has yet been invented and made widely available that doesn’t involve some penetration of the skin.

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Surprise FedEx Fee Jacks Up Tariff Charges

A friend recently ordered a pillow from Turkey. Unexpectedly, after the pillow arrived he got a bill with an extra charge. It was for the tariff. He was surprised but probably shouldn’t have been because under the law, it is normally the importer who is responsible for paying any tariffs on such goods. In this case, he was the importer.

Adding insult to injury, however, also on the bill was a service fee from FedEx. While the tariff itself was only $2.19, FedEx charged him a total of $17.19.

*MOUSE PRINT:

FedEx tariff bill

*MOUSE PRINT:

The tariff bill was so much higher than the actual tax because they added their own junk fee — a “disbursement fee”.

FedEx disbursement fee

Thanks for nothing, FedEx.

The temporary 10% tariff that was imposed after the Supreme Court struck down the president’s wide-ranging tariffs expired on July 24 but was quickly replaced with new tariffs.

So beware, purchasing goods directly from overseas may come with a costly surprise … or two.

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