Insane Coupon Lady Saving Money, Making Everyone at CVS Want to Strangle Her

Hey, you know how if you get a CVS card, CVS will give you "bucks" for buying its overpriced crap? And sometimes little coupons print out on your receipt too? And you can use the bucks and coupons together but sometimes you have to have separate transactions to use all the bucks you've accumulated? And you always get stuck in line behind crazy people busting up their three items into three transactions for ultimate savings? Well, local lady Jamie Chase is one of those people holding up your line. Chase has mastered the clip and save, spending as little as $9 on a purchase "worth" $118 yet costing those forced to wait in line behind her complicated coupon-maximizing multiple transactions precious years of their lives, and her skills are so amazing that she merits her own Globe article that doesn't actually even reveal exactly what she is buying with all of these stupid coupons.

Notwithstanding the fact that whatever would have cost $118 was probably wildly overpriced in the first place (especially if the purchase in question was made at CVS) and that coupon shoppers are usually saving by buying forty kazillion of the same item that they could never in a million years use (like 2000 Electrasol tablets, or six nasty chunky soups), we just kind of hate overzealous coupon clippers. The self-congratulatory smugness, the driving all over town to save twelve cents on tampons, the beep beep beep of all the coupons scanning, and—worst of all—the multiple transactions which should not even be allowed because that's the point of the coupons saying one per transaction.

Expect something extra at CVS? Yeah, extra annoyance, at the hands of coupon crazies.