This is a fun scenario because very few coupons are necessary. If you haven't played the Register Reward game, this is the perfect week to give it a try. Remember - check out at the beauty counter when you want to do multiple transaction.
The most cost effective way to shop at Walgreens is to roll your Register Rewards from week to week. If you are following my Walgreens $5 Scenarios, you have $5 Register Reward from Unilever to spend on this week's shopping.
Check out all of this week's Walgreens deals HERE.
Transaction #1
purchase:
(1) Irish Spring Antiperspirant/Deodorant $2.99
(1) Ocean Spray Drink or Juice $2.99
use:
Unilever RR from last week -$5.00
= $0.98 + tax out of pocket and get a $2 Colgate-Palmolive and $2 Ocean Spray Register Reward
Transaction #2
purchase:
(1) Veripur Hand Sanitizer $3.99
(1) Valentine Pencil w/ eraser top $0.49 (needed to make transaction large enough to use $4 in RRs)
use:
Walgreens in-ad coupon for Valentine Pencil -$0.29
Colgate-Palmolive RR from previous transaction -$2.00
Ocean Spray RR from previous transaction -$2.00
= $0.19 + tax out of pocket and get a $4 Veripur Register Reward
Transaction #3
purchase:
(1) Right Guard Total Defense 5 Body Wash $3.99
(1) Valentine Pencil w/ eraser top $0.49 (needed to make transaction large enough to use RR)
use:
Walgreens in-ad coupon for Valentine Pencil -$0.29
Veripur RR from previous transaction -$4.00
= $0.19 + tax out of pocket and get a $3 Henkel Register Reward
Transaction #4
purchase:
(2) Colgate MaxFresh or MaxWhite Toothpaste $5.00
1) Valentine Pencil w/ eraser top $0.49 (needed to use RR)
use:
(2) $0.75 Colgate coupons (1/30/11 SS) - $1.50
Walgreens in-ad coupon for Valentine Pencil -$0.29
Henkel RR from previous transaction $3.00
= $0.70 + tax out of pocket and get a $3 Colgate-Palmolive Register Reward
Transaction #5
purchase:
(1) Veripur Hand Sanitizer $3.99
use:
Colgate-Palmolive RR from previous transaction -$3.00
= $0.99 + tax out of pocket and get a $4 Veripur Register Reward
Transaction #6
purchase:
(1) Right Guard Total Defense 5 Body Wash $3.99
(1) Valentine Pencil w/ eraser top $0.49 (needed to make transaction large enough to use $4 in RRs)
use:
Walgreens in-ad coupon for Valentine Pencil -$0.29
Veripur RR from previous transaction -$4.00
= $0.19 + tax out of pocket and get a $3 Henkel Register Reward
Items Purchased
(2) Veripur Hand Sanitizer
(2) Right Guard Body Wash
(2) Colgate Toothpaste
(1) Irish Spring Deodorant
(1) Ocean Spray Juice
(4) Valentines pencils
Retail before sales & coupons: $36.38
Total out of pocket: $3.81 for a 90% savings
And a $3 Henkel Register Reward to start next week's shopping
If you didn't start with the $5 Register Rewards , you will have only spent $8.81 for this scenario - a 76% savings.
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There are $1 off peelie coupons on most of the Right Guart Body Washes!!!! YEAH! Makes them free after register reward.
ReplyDeleteBrandi
saving with brandi
One more deal is for a small box of Nabisco Ritz Crackers $0.99. Use the $1/1 printable coupon (you need to take the recipe challenge to print the coupon) which makes the final price free
ReplyDeleteGood Morning to All,
ReplyDeleteI just posted the Coupon Giveaway with the -$1/1 Skippy coupons over in the Coupon STL Trader forum, please go ck it out and enter for your chance to win. =)
Thanks, Brandi - I hope the peelies are at every store.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Matt - Does that coupon have not size restrictions? It looked like a lot of work to me to print a coupon.
Thanks, Janet!!!
i got the right guard body wash too.. awesome deal!! thank you!
ReplyDeleteI had a not so happy experience, yesterday. I was going to do 3 transactions (because I waited too long and my coupons for the lysol hand soap system expired). I checked out at the makeup desk where the lady had said, "come over here when you're ready." I started off with, "don't hate me, I have multiple transactions."
ReplyDelete"They don't like us doing that, we don't normally, but I will cause there's no one else."
First transaction, Gillette fusion proglide $9.99 - $4Q, using $5 RR. When she scanned the RR she said it wouldn't take it b/c the pre-tax amount wasn't high enough. I thought that can't be right b/c 9.99-4=5.99. duh right? well, to appease here (instead of fighting it) I handed over one of my pencils that I was going to use for the following transactions.
2nd: Veripur + pencil. 3.99+.20-$4 RR
3rd: 3x eggs @ .99 + 2x Halls - Wags Q - 2x 0.50Q. Before we started ringing these up, she asked if it was the final transaction "because they don't like us doing this." and there was one customer that was just looking around and asked her a question but really didn't look like she was waiting to check out.
I had thought that this transaction would be over the 3.99 but here's my mistake. I didn't do my math exactly right and I was PENNIES away from the 3.99 RR. So here's where the checker snookered me and PRESSURED me into getting one of the 99c items that were around the register. Because I had already used my 2 pencils and didn't have an extra tiny purchase in my basket.
I really felt pressured and snookered by this checker. Good news, I still got 3 dozen eggs, 2 packs halls defense drops, hand sanitizer, razor, and stinking 99c eyeliner for a grand total of $2.14. But it could have been a dollar less!
I nearly want to email walgreens.
Hi Emily - Sorry you had such an agravating trip to Walgreens. But, you have to be happy bring home so much merchandise for so little money.
ReplyDeleteI've gotten to the point I only check out with certain cashiers. You start to learn their schedules and when you find a cashier that is pleasent and coupon friendly, you remember them.
Don't feel pressured to purchased something you don't want to. In your situations where you came up short, I would have reached into my bag and pulled out a pencil I had already paid for and told her to ring it up again.
I would have never thought of that!! To ring up something already purchased, again! Great idea.
ReplyDeleteI came home and told husband and he says, "If they didn't want you to play the game, they would have stopped it years ago." My mom says at the first sign of trouble I should ask for the manager because the manager wants the customer's business but the checker doesn't really care and is only there for their own hour of work & pay.
Hi Emily - You learn all the tricks to make your shopping expierence easier at Walgreens after you have shopped there for awhile.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your mother's advice, but it is Walgreens. Some managers can be nastier than the cashiers. I hope you are in an area where there are lots of Walgreens. If one store is not coupon friendly, chances are the next store is.