This post takes my couponing skills to the max. I love a bargain, and I like to get things for free. Who doesn't? On Black Friday, I went out to Walgreens, I go there a lot to get stuff for cheap. I didn't do as well as I would have liked because I messed up on my second transaction due to being in a hurry.
Edit: Clarification - Register Rewards are a "catalina" like item that Walgreens provides on certain items every week. They print after you pay for the item on a seperate machine from the receipt. If you've ever looked at an ad you might notice the price might say "Toothpaste $2.99 but with $1 in Register Rewards it's like getting it for $1.99." All of these Black Friday items were Register Rewarded at the actual price of the item. So, if you have an actual manufacturer coupon, you're making money after the first transaction because you're just rolling the rewards back and forth. CVS is another chain drugstore that has a reward program, but we don't have them here in Omaha.
Also, Walgreens, occassionally provides in store coupon books. This use to be a monthly thing,
Edit: Clarification - Register Rewards are a "catalina" like item that Walgreens provides on certain items every week. They print after you pay for the item on a seperate machine from the receipt. If you've ever looked at an ad you might notice the price might say "Toothpaste $2.99 but with $1 in Register Rewards it's like getting it for $1.99." All of these Black Friday items were Register Rewarded at the actual price of the item. So, if you have an actual manufacturer coupon, you're making money after the first transaction because you're just rolling the rewards back and forth. CVS is another chain drugstore that has a reward program, but we don't have them here in Omaha.
Also, Walgreens, occassionally provides in store coupon books. This use to be a monthly thing,
First Transaction:
Infusium 23 Conditioner = $4.99
Johnson & Johnson Soap = $5.99
Total before coupons = $10.98Infusium 23 coupon = - $ 2.00
Total with 6% tax = $9.64 (out of pocket). And I also received $11 in Register Rewards(RR).
So I went to the next store and picked up three Dove Deodarants:
3($3.99) = $11.97 - $11.00RR = $0.97 + $0.72(tax) = $1.75 out of pocket
And since I screwed up, I only received $4 in RR and $1 Dove coupon. (Instead of $12 in RR and $3 in coupons)
Third trip:
Johnson bodywash - $5.99 - $4RR = $1.99 + $0.36 (tax) = $2.35 (out of pocket) and $6 in RR.
Fourth and final transaction:
Aquafresh toothpaste $1.99
Dove deodarant $3.50 (I don't know why it was cheaper)
Puzzles as filler 2 for $1
Total $6.49 - $6 in RR + $0.39 cents in tax = $0.88 cents out of pocket plus $6 in RR for later and another $1 dove coupon.
Total out of pocket: $14.62. I did some minor price checking at Target and managed to save about $20 (including tax) not including the $6 in Register Rewards that I have to use for a future purchase, so not too bad, but I could have done better. I also really wanted to get some 64 packs of crayons that were going to work out to be 99 cents for my CASA bags for this spring, but they weren't in any of the three stores I visited.
2 comments:
holy smokes! i need to get in on these savings! how do i get started? is there a coupon book or something at walgreens? how do you get the RR? how does it all work?
Register Rewards prints out on certain items, like all of these, when you purchase them, I'll edit above. I can't even tell you the last time that I paid for a razor with actual cash.
Walgreens, like Target, and some grocery stores, takes the store coupon and their own, so you can stack. Here's a great blog that breaks down the weekly deals at Walgreens: http://samssecrets.wordpress.com/. She did much better on BF than me. I often look on hotcouponworld.com too, under drugstores, plus they have a good resource to find internet printable coupons.
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