Who wants to save 12 cents on a $42.50 gas purchase?  Apparently Holiday Stationstores and Cub Foods thinks you’ll be chomping at the bit for this little “deal.”  (And I *do* mean “little.”)

After completing my purchase at the Cub Foods grocery store, the clerk made sure that I took this print-at-the-register coupon with me.  ”Wait!”, she called out,  you forgot your gas coupon!”

Hmm, lets see here – I’ll save one penny per gallon, up to 12 gallons.  That means that on my typical 17-gallon fill up, I’ll save a whopping 12 cents.  At $2.50 per gallon, that’s a savings of 0.28% on my $42.50 purchase.  And to think, I nearly left this coupon sitting on the checkout counter!  How could I be so careless?

“But you can use up to three coupons,” she told me.  ”So you’ll save up to three cents per gallon.”  Wow, 0.85%.  Staggering.

These worthless coupons aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on, yet they’re printed each and every time I make a purchase at Cub Foods.   They actually expect people to save these little slips of paper, to carry them around, to purposely seek out a Holiday Gas Station, to forgo the convenience of completing the transaction at the pump – all for a measly 12 cents savings?  Seriously?

Am I the only one who finds this incredibly insulting?