Comments on: I Can’t Shop at Target

By: Bren

Bren — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:47:00 +0000

Yes. I tried to buy $5 worth of trial sizes with coupons that clearly did NOT exclude them and I bought about $30 worth of other products but I spent 45 minutes in line with the cashier and manager carfully reading my coupons and deciding in the end that they would not accept ANY coupons for trial sizes. Well, I wish they would have posted that near the trial size area. My icecream had melted and I was steamed!!! I will never shop there again. GIVE ME A BREAK!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:21:00 +0000

I haven’t had any problems at Target, yet. I’ve gotten great deals, but I don’t shop there often.

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:36:00 +0000

Me too! I was going for the freebies – dollar coupons with the small sizes, but they are getting too picky with coupons now. Even with a copy of their corporate policy in hand, it’s just too much of a hassle.

The pet food is sometimes a good deal, but K-Mart has the same prices. If K-mart is sold out, I hit Target.

I’m going back to concentrating on my favorites: Dollar General and Family Dollar. We don’t have a CVS nearby, and lately the drug stores sell out of the good rebate/coupon deals within 48 hours.

By: Marcy

Marcy — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:53:00 +0000

Target is a problem store for me too in terms of spending out of pocket. I avoided Target in May and hit my budget. I went there twice in June and spent $84 and $65…which contributed to me going over budget. I can’t blame it on the store though…I just love it so much that there is too much temptation for me! I go in intending to buy cleaning supplies or whatever, and come out with sunglasses, cute seasonal stuff etc… I am bummed about the whole coupon thing, but am hoping that they will rework how they issue store coupons so that we can use them (the correct way) again.

By: Frugal Finds

Frugal Finds — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:20:00 +0000

I am so sorry to hear you have had problems with Target. That is one of my best stores. Toys R Us has irked me in a similar way with their customer service and then retratcting the Thomas the Train coupons. Even my CVS has a coupon cop as a manager. I guess it all really depends on the staff at each store.
Frugal Carol

By: Mercedes

Mercedes — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:27:00 +0000

I don’t have a “ton” of coupons to use at Target. I have three of the $5/3 and four $3 off revlon. They are all insert coupons. But I think my thing is, I want to go there just to buy these items. After coupons these should be free or pretty close to free and I feel that if I just go and buy these items it will send up a red flag to Target people. so I fell I have to pad my order and I don’t want to do that.

By: Mercedes

Mercedes — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:12:00 +0000

Ashley,
I forgot to mention that the same can be achieved at Walgreens. The thing with Walgreens is that the money making deals at that store are sporadic. the last one was at the beginning of May. When this happen I made about $70 in register rewards that I used to purchase other things I needed. CVS deals are moe ongoing and depending on how you do it you can “play your cards” to intermix things you need with current deals with very little OOP spend at the end. I guess the same could be achieved with GC offers at Target. But it seems legitimate money making offers at Target are not very common. Sure other people can make money there but it usually involves coupon fraud.

By: mustbekarmah

mustbekarmah — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:48:00 +0000

I can completely understand. I need to stay away from certain stores as well as they tempt me to purchase more than when I went in there for.

I have never had problems with coupons at Target, but then I haven’t gone there and done a huge lot of coupons… yet.

By: Chief Family Officer

Chief Family Officer — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:39:00 +0000

I’ve had a few coupon problems at Target, but only one really bad experience with a cashier who simply couldn’t wrap her brain around stacking. How much stuff would you buy at Target? And can you break it up into multiple trips? I keep my transactions fairly small, which keeps the number of coupons down, and that doesn’t seem to really set off alarms. Although, as you rightly anticipate, be prepared for Target printable issues – the last time I was there, I had to wait while the cashier checked to make sure that she could take an Archer Farms pizza coupon. She didn’t have a bad attitude or anything, and clearly just wanted to make sure she was following the latest policy. (They let me use the coupon; the sign at the register clearly stated that the only coupons they weren’t accepting were the $5/$25.) Hope that helps!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:55:00 +0000

You are so lucky to have a CVS near you, there isn’t one in the state I live in! Target has gotten me some awesome deals and the targets here have never given me problems with coupons, I guess I am lucky too