Monday, March 9, 2009

Some Things

A few things to know about shopping at Walgreens:

1) You can't use register rewards to do the same deal again. You can do the same deal as many times as you want and get register rewards every time as long as you dont use those register rewards to pay for it. Now, you can use register rewards from a DIFFERENT deal to pay for it. Here's an example. This week you can buy 25 dollars worth of Huggies and get 10 in register rewards and a monthly deal is buy 8 dove products in one transaction and get $10 in register rewards. You can use the dove register rewards to pay for the huggies and the huggies to pay for the dove and they'll print again. Does that make sense? This is their way of making sure you dont get too much stuff for free ;)

2) A register reward is like "free money" at Walgreens but the computer sees it like a "coupon". Walgreens only allows you to have as many manufacturer coupons as you have products (walgreens coupons dont count). So, if you have 5 products and 5 coupons you can't use your register rewards. One way to fix this is to use a coupon that is $1 off of 2 bc then it's only one coupon for both products and the register reward can be used for that second product. Or use them when buying the free after rebate items...or just buy a .50c candy bar ;) So, summary is make sure you have as many products as you have coupons and that includes your register rewards. You can also use them like a gift card to buy things like milk or papers on sunday with all the coupons in them :).

3) Walgreens is never going to "pay" you to shop there...well not out in the open! So, this week you can get the Sambucol for free plus $1 overage. They arent going to give you that dollar and neither will the computer. It is best to use it WITH another deal like the huggies where you are still going to owe money. Another example is to use it for something you've been really wanting but dont have a coupon for bc it's like having a dollar off coupon. Want something that costs $5? Buy 5 sambucols and it will take $5 off. Or do like above and just buy a candy bar ;)

4) You still have to pay tax on the whole order. On the scenario below, you will have to pay tax on the full $110 BUT when you factor in all the free stuff you're getting it's not that big of a deal, right?

Have more questions? Ask and we'll figure it out! Happy Shopping :)

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