I am officially over Smiths. They force use of their card to track you and your purchases and their ads are gimmicks to force purchase of multiples of items in order to get their discounted super special prices. A further problem is that their computer system is sometimes mis-programmed and it fails to recognize specials and you lose your discounts one groups of items--rather than just a single item. I have caught 3 errors in the past 5 weeks where I have tried to use the "buy 5...get 5 dollars off" and have found the error only after getting home and checking the tape. They always hand me a 5 dollar bill with no problems, leading me to believe this is a semi regular occurrence.
Now Smiths is rolling out so called digital coupons. More tracking of my purchases....and you have to log onto their site as wade through 300 to 400 coupons and mark which ones you want. I realized I had spent 12 wasted minutes on their site and finally realized I would have more checking up on them to get the few pennies saved by these coupons.
I will be patronizing Smiths for loss leader items only in the future. Albertsons has equivalent pricing overall and they do not track your purchases at this time.