Yipee! Our local Vons was remodeled and their grand re-opening started yesterday. They mailed out coupon booklets and new club cards for additional savings. For the next 30 days, each time the card is used, one will save an additional 10%. Plus, there are a few free offers with the new card - FREE dozen eggs, FREE cereal, $5 off beef, and 30 cents off per lb of bananas. I rounded up a few coupons and went at 8 am in case of a crowd. No crowd. Store was nice and new looking. Store prices and fair to middling - good on the specials, and extremely high on other items. They also advertised that 300 $25 gift cards would be given away randomly today only at the register (that's why I went today instead of tomorrow). I got bananas, cheese, top sirloin steaks, ribeye steaks, eggs, cereal, ice cream, and other stuff. The bill before card and coupons was $147. After $45.00! And to my pleasant surprise I won the $25 gift card!!!! The card is a Safeway card -- I will use on return trips to the market. I still have lots of coupons I did not use because 1) I did not need those items at the moment and did not want to stock up items that might be perishable; and 2) Those items were bot on sale (I can wait for a sale). But all in all, a savings kind of day!