Safeway's 48 Hour Weekend Sales

I have been fighting to try to continue going to Albertsons now the resurrected Lucky's. Just every time I go in there I just don't feel that the staff is even aware that I am there as a paying customer.

As of this weekend I can no longer deny shopping at the Safeway near my home. Taking from my microeconomics course and talking about product differentiation; Safeway has the $1.50 DVD Play machine, $9.99 roses, the 5 gallon purified water and now 48 hour weekend sales! Safeway is no longer concerned with the lowly Lucky's food chain across the street, they want to make us treasure hunt like at Costco and it is working. Every weekend for 48 hours, Safeway has items heavily discounted. This week it was $1.88 Oreo cookies and if you could find the coupon for 88 cents off for $1. There were also 49 cent per pound apples. On the left Gatorade was being sold for 57 cents and on the right "All American Sandwich" was made on fresh steaming french bread with 3 layers of different meats for the price of $5! I was only able to eat half of this bad boy and normal price is $7.99. In retrospect, even Subway's now scaled down $5 menu cannot beat this deal even on the regular price. This sandwich can feed 4 people for $7.99! So now I know what I am doing every weekend, I am heading to Safeway to hunt for the deal of the weekend as I do at Costco. I will try not to fall into the trap of buying whatever I see but isn't that part of the fun?