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Pillar of the Community
United States
744 Posts |
My local grocery store "Shaws" supermarket, which has a coinstar machine located in it now has options for a "Shaws" gift card option.......
that means that we can dump $150-$200 in Zincolns a week and not have to pay a fee for our groceries that we would have to buy anyway.....what a country
do others have that option in there area ?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5854 Posts |
The coinstar at my local supermarket will count coins for free if you choose the option to receive the cash in the form of a gift card. I have not checked to see what kind of gift cards they offer.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1903 Posts |
I can't wait til the Kroger in my area offers this option for their stores :-)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
850 Posts |
my Krogers now does this except I do not know if they have gift cards for Kroger option.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1903 Posts |
Kroger gift cards in Houston area only right now, but will be rolling out nationwide soon
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4132 Posts |
A lot of Coinstars let you get Amazon (and other online retailer) gift certificates for no fee, which I'll eventually use because I buy lots of stuff online. I use them to dump halves occasionally. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1903 Posts |
On the note of dumping halves, how many will it take before it fills up?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
584 Posts |
Just enough to its full,  ..JK, I was sitting here wondering the same thing. I'm going to guess around 200 give or take $20 |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4132 Posts |
It's a lot more than that - I dumped most of a box and it didn't fill up. For some reason it rejected about 10% of my halves (some went after several runs-through) but it didn't fill up.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
625 Posts |
I dump $1k at a time into my free coinstar machines and they rarely fill up. Coinstar has two large bins in the bottom that take all the coins. When one fills up it kicks over to the other one and makes a very loud clanging noise with the large halves hitting the empty bottom. Draws quite a few looks...
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Valued Member
United States
266 Posts |
The credit union that I use has a Coinstar machine that waives the fee, if you are a member, and put the money into your account.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
784 Posts |
I know we have a lot of Coinstars around I will have to check for there options.
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Valued Member
United States
187 Posts |
I'm going to have to look into this,this sounds like a great option
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Posted 07/25/2011 11:31 pm
