Amateur Megalomania

Whenever we’re in Toledo, we load up on Diet Pepsi and smuggle it back here to Michigan. I don’t have to pay the onerous 10 cent deposit, and for whatever reason, it always seems cheaper even with the deposit factor weighed in.

So anyway, last weekend I stopped in to Krogers to load up before we came back. While I prefer the cans, they had a special going for Kroger Club members – 10 two-liters for $10. Good enough for me.

So I start scanning two-liters and notice the coupon generator is spitting a ridiculous length of tape at me. Turns out for every two two-liters, I get a coupon for a free two-liter. Thoughts of geometric progression cross my mind.

After taking my purchase to the car, I come back with coupons for five more freebies. Surely they wouldn’t issue coupons when I ‘purchase’ free pop?

Five free bottles later I have two coupons.

Two more free bottles, and I have a single coupon.

All in all, I ended up with 18 two-liters for $10. At that rate, I could fill up my gas tank for $16…not that I would, but it’s impressive.

I’m still trying to figure it out. What’s Pepsi’s game here? What nefarious plot is at the heart of this? Surely Karl Rove is involved somehow.

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