Sunday, October 25, 2009

Walgreens

I'am still working out the kinks in earning Register Rewards.  Below are posts of 2 different trips to Walgreens with the latter of them to be a good example of how not to use your Register Rewards  :-(

Trip 1
Dentek floss, sale $2.00, final $2.00
Halls Refresh sale $1.39, coupon .50c, final .89c (earned RR $1)
Chapstick, $3.49, sale $2.99, final $2.99 (earned RR $2)
Mini Highlighter, .65c, sale .15c
Used RR = $5.00
Total oop = $1.03
Earned RR = $3.00  (should have earned $2 for the floss, not sure why I didn't)

Trip 2
Hershey candy bars, .89c, coupon 2 for $1.00, final .50c ea (2)
Zantac, sale $8.99, coupon $5.00, final $3.99 (earned RR $9)
Used RR = $4.00
Total oop = .99c
Earned RR = $9.00

Then

Almay eye concealer, $8.99, sale B1G1 free
Almay eye liner, $9.49, sale $8.99
Mini Highlighter, .65c
Used RR = $9.00
Total oop = .64c

*On the second transaction, I figured that the higher priced Almay item would ring through (didn't know it was on sale), so between the 2 Almay products it would still be over the $9 and thus able to use the RR from the previous transaction.  I had a $3.00 Almay coupon and not thinking I would need it, I failed to bring any other items to the register.  With a line behind me I grabbed the closest thing to make it over the $9 mark, this time the highlighters were no longer on sale for .15c, urgh!  If I had played it a bit better, I would have had $3 more to spend in store and nothing out of pocket.  This is an example of what not to do when you shop at Walgreens!