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Saturday, August 20, 2011

CVS $5 Scenario - Week of 8/21/11

If your store is busy, the polite thing to do is to pay for a  couple transactions and step aside to let the customers behind you check out.  This not only keeps the other customers happy, but puts less stress on the cashier. 

If you are following my CVS $5 Scenarios, you have $3 ECB to start this week's shopping. 

Take a look more of this week's CVS deals

Transaction #1
purchase:
(1) Revlon Lip $6.99
use:
(1) Revlon coupon (8/14/11 SS) - $1.00
ECB from last week - $3.00
= $2.99 + tax and get a $5 ECB

Transaction #2
purchase:
(1) Revlon Lip $6.99
use:
(1) Revlon coupon (8/14/11 SS) - $1.00
ECB from previous transaction -$5.00
= $0.99 + tax and get a $5 ECB

Transaction #3
purchase:
(1) Schick Hydro 3 or 5 Razor or Cartridges $8.49
use:
(1) Schick coupon (8/07/11 SS) - $2.00
ECB from previous transaction -$5.00
= $1.49 + tax and get a $5 ECB

Items Purchased
(2) Revlon Lip
(1) Schick Hydro Razor or Cartridges

Total retail before sales & coupons: $27.97
Total spent: $5.47 + tax for an 80% savings
And a $5 ECB to start next week's shopping

If you didn't start with the $3 ECB, you will spend $8.47 for this scenario - a 70% savings. 

2 comments:

  1. Jeri, I agree about your comment to let others step in line ahead of you, but how many times? I have had the cashier ask me to step aside, and I do so willingly, but then four people are taken ahead of me and I end up waiting and waiting.

    It is a difficult call to make, but I don't think it is fair either to the "couponer" to stand and wait continuously. Personally, I begin to feel like a less valued customer after about one round of stepping aside.

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  2. Hi Denise - Yes, I agree there is a limit of how many times a couponer would need to step aside to let others checkout. I haven't had run into the situation of more than a couple people behind me in line.

    You might want to talk to a manager, and if you have quite a few transactions, ask them to check you out, so as not to hold up the other cashiers and customers. If the store is buy and they don't have all the registers manned - they should.

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