grocery shopping at walgreens?

walgreens started opening up these nice stores in downtown chicago maybe three years ago. they've got decent sushi bars, froyo, wine bar, bakeries, smoothies, and other things. i kinda like these new stores. and now i often end up grocery shopping there. often the prices are better than local groceries too.

they just opened a new one in the wrigley building on mich ave. they have $3 off coupons, so what i've been doing is buying tons of their 20oz gold peak iced tea bottles this week. normally they cost $2, but with your membership card, it's down to 1.50. better than that, for each you buy, in separate purchases, you get a 1.50 rewards coupon back. also on sale this week have been the 1 lb pistachio bags
normally these go for $12, but they on sale for $6/lb this week.

with the new store coupon and my cash rewards, i can get 3 lbs of pistachio and 3 bottles of iced tea for a total under $20. retail would be almost 45.

i also like getting milk at walgreens. every other week i can get a gallon of dean's milk, which is i guess like brown's milk in nola. it's good. groceries have it at 4.00 or higher. i can get it usually for $2.50, sometimes cheaper, as cheap as 2.00.

if you know how to work walgreens, you can make it a cheap store to buy your groceries from.