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Friday, February 22, 2013

Girl Scout Cookie Booth Sales Start Friday in Wheaton

Find out where to buy Girl Scout Cookies in Wheaton.

Girl Scouts will be selling cookies at the Giant Food on University Boulevard in Wheaton starting Friday, Feb. 22, and continuing through March 24. For more information, enter your ZIP code into the Girl Scouts’ Cookie Locator application (or click here if it's not appearing correctly for you above). You may also download the Girl Scout cookies locator mobile app. Sales are dependent, in part, on the weather. Girl Scout cookies are $4 a box this year. Each Girl Scout troop gets to keep up to 70 cents from every box sold. Why do Girl Scouts sell cookies, anyway? Find out here! What's your favorite kind of Girl Scout cookie? Vote here!

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Moms Talk: Coupons and Other Food Savings

Is clipping coupons part of your family grocery routine?

Wheaton Patch invites you and your circle of friends to help build a community of support for mothers and their families right here in Wheaton.  Do you know a Mom (or Dad!) that wants to chat all things parenting? Send 'em over this way, and feel free to suggest topics that are on your mind. Each week in Moms Talk, our Moms Council of experts take your questions, give advice and share solutions.  So grab a cup of coffee and settle in as we start the conversation today. Your editor fondly remembers her mother giving her the duty of holding on to the coupons as we went up and down the aisles, but noticed fewer and fewer coupons as our family's eating habits changed.  Do you clip coupons? Any extreme couponing fans? What works best in the …

L.A. Wells

2:56 pm on Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Re P. Lalley's question re Giant spot checking you when using self check-out. I asked a Giant employee that question when the first self check outs were installed. I was told by this individual that Giant believed the cost of any theft was more than offset by the savings of having fewer cashiers. This from an employee, not the front office. Don't know what the higher ups would say, but it would …   more ›

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