Tips To Start Couponing at Walgreens and my HUGE Trip Flop!

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This week, I decided to do my main trip at Walgreens rather than CVS. Their ad is rockin’ and I thought “I can do this – goodness I teach it, right?!”. It took me over 45 minutes to check out. Y’all, I just do not have that kind of time. I have to say the manager and cashier was AMAZING! But it is still really frustrating because of all the “rules” Walgreens has.

So here is what I would advise anyone who is debating to start couponing at Walgreens:

#1. Pick a coupon friendly store. Walgreens to me is not coupon friendly. Although the cashiers I had were awesome! They cannot make the coupons work for some reason, even if they are legit. I felt just as bad for them as I did for me….

#2. Start small. If I would’ve just stopped after transaction #1 or #2 then I would’ve been happy, but adding transaction #3 just broke the bank.

#3. Get items you need or can donate. This is HUGE – what called me years ago to even work for Laurie was wanting to help other people donate to their local community.

#4. KNOW YOUR BUDGET. I totally went way over my budget seeing if these deals worked. I did save a ton, but it was not worth it to me since we will just donate everything (except the paper products).

#5. Scan the item on your Walgreens app and see if coupons pop up to match the sale item.

#6. Sometimes store pick up actually is better. I was talking to another couponer and she said she does online store pick up at Walgreens. She said its sooo much easier than buying the items in the store.

#7. Do not be ashamed to tell the cashier “I do not want that”. 

#8. You will need filler items if you have more coupons than items. Do a quick count before heading to the register!

Transaction #1

Bought 2 Colgate Toothpaste – $2.99
Bought 3 Crest Prohealth Toothpaste – $3
Bought 2 Dove Body Wash – $7

• Used $2/1 Colgate digital coupon
• Used $6/3 Crest  digital coupon
• Used $7/2 Dove  digital coupon
• Used $10 CR from previous trip
• Paid $6.59 plus tax out of pocket Got $8 RR and $5 they gave me in CR because the $5 RR from Crest didn’t print

Transaction #2

Bought 2 Irish Spring Body Wash – $3.99
Bought 1 Kraft Macaroni & Cheese – $.99

• Used $1/1 Irish Spring digital coupon
• Used $1/1 Irish Spring digital coupon
• Submitted for $.35/1 Kraft  Ibotta rebate
• Used $5 CR from transaction #1
• Paid $4.72 out of pocket, Got $4 RR

Transaction #3

Bought 1 Gillette Labs Exfoliating Razor Kit – $24.99, Get $5 CR

• Use $10/1 app coupon
• Submit for $5/1 Ibotta rebate limit 1
• Used $13 RR from transaction #1 and #2
• Paid $4.24 out of pocket, Got $5 CR (This didn’t activate so the manager had to add them) and $5 in rebate

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So I paid a whopping $15.55 out of pocket and got $5 CR and $5.35 in rebates.  I lost $5 CR since I started with $10 and ended with $5 CR. 

And again, I was there for 45 minutes checking out because of coupons not working and prices being wrong. I can type it out and it doesn’t look too bad, but when considering my time I spent, it was just not worth it.

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