A very sad day..doublers changes coming to albies...

read this first on ambers blog this morning, all over facebook and other blogs.... very sad..more details here
http://couponconnections.com/2011/06/albertsons-coupon-changes-longer-customer-service/


seems as of july 17, customer service will no longer have doublers for us..only way to get them is in the sunday papers..which I think will just encourage more inserts stealing unfortunately. I don't shop there on weeks without doublers typically, as they are higher priced. Winco will get me much better prices.  This is going to be a real game changer. And beware..stealers of inserts...alot of stores are putting there security camera on you now, and will collect evidence then bust you!!

official response from Corporate:

I wanted to share with you some changes that are coming to Albertsons IMW. As I’m sure you’ve seen on our Facebook page, we’re currently reevaluating the way we share coupons with our shoppers. We’re really excited that so many shoppers are enthusiastic about our Twice the Value coupons at certain Albertsons  locations, and we’ve seen a significant increase in shoppers who are using them.
Unfortunately, we’ve seen many people taking advantage of this special offer, so we’ve decided to stop providing extra inserts at our store locations. As of July 17th, the only way to have access to the promotional inserts that include our Twice the Value coupons will be to purchase a Sunday newspaper. I want to make it clear that we’re still offering and honoring our Twice the Value coupons, but to limit the number of shoppers who are using more than three in any given shopping trip we will not have extra coupons at our store locations.
Our stores in Montana and Wyoming have a historically low redemption rate of our special Twice the Value coupons, so in these specific markets we’ve decided discontinue offering our special savings inserts in Sunday newspapers as well. Since shoppers in these stores don’t appear to be finding value in these coupons, we’ve decided to use this as an opportunity to try new ways to share savings and value with our customers.

I just last week started getting the 5 paper herald deal, guess I will have to get up early and start buying more on those doubler sundays, and hope the stores have them..herald told me last time i had trouble finding them, that stores and boxes come last to receive inserts, subscribers first..and I had t go to 3 stores to find any last time. this is NOT good news to me!