It’s double dipping time at Walgreens and this time again there is a $/$$ coupon to make your purchase even better. What is double dipping you wonder? Double dipping happens when the end of one rebate period overlaps with the beginning of another rebate period at Walgreens. During these two days, the coupons in the EasySaver booklet from the period that is about to end are still active and the coupons from the period that just began are active as well. Because using two Easysaver coupons on the same item is controversial and highly dependent on whether a cashier will let you do it or not, I don’t promote deals that involve this practice. With that in mind, the choices for double dipping are very slim this month:
Airwick Freshmatic on sale $5.99
Use $5/1 from insert 9/7 inserts
Submit for November Rebate #37 Get $3 Back when you buy one Limit 1
Free and make $2.01 after coupon and rebate
M&Ms on sale 2/$5
Use 1/2 manufacturer coupon from 9/28 inserts
Use 1/2 October Easysaver catalog coupon
Submit for November ESR rebate #46 Get $5 back when you buy 4 bags of holiday M&Ms
Pay $1 for four bags after coupons and rebate
UPDATE: I had to change my scenario because Triaminic and Benefiber are the same deal.
Here’s an easy transaction to take advantage of the $5 off $20 coupon:
$23.97 Buy three boxes of Benefiber Kiwi Strawberry drink mixes
$8.99 buy one Gillete Fusion Razor
$5.99 Buy one Airwick Freshmatic
$4.99 buy one Alka Seltzer Plus Cold
$10 buy 4 Nestle’s Fun Sized Candy
$0.25 small filler item
= $54.19
-$15 Benefiber Easysaver coupon
-$6 three Benefiber manufacturer coupons
-$4 One Fusion manufacturer coupon
-$5 One Airwick Freshmatic coupon
-$4 Nestle Candy manufacturer IP coupons here
=$20.19
-$5 one $5 off $20 Walgreens coupon
=$15.19 out of pocket
You get $3.99 RR from Alka Seltzer, $4 RR from Fusion and $8 RR from Benefiber. You also get $4 back from October rebate on the Nestle candy and $3 back from November rebate on the Airwick Freshmatic. Between rebates and register rewards you get $22.99 back on this transaction, or you “make” $7.80 before sales taxes.
If you submit your rebates online you should not have any problems using the same receipt for two different rebate periods.
Happy Deal Hunting!
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Wow, these are great tips. Hopefully the cashier I get will let me get away with this.
Maybe it would be wise to get to know the store manager at Walgreens.
I say hello to her (Patrice) every time I go in (which is pretty frequent) and she always opens a register for me.
I love your blog…..I write about fuglal home technology, but you get to the nitty gritty…..nice work
I found the Benefiber Strawberry-Kiwi next to the register at 2 different stores, so if anyone is having problems finding them on the shelf – try up front!
I’m not sure, but I don’t think you can do the Triaminic and Benefiber in the same transaction. I think they are the same RR deal and only 1 will print.
Hi MJ,
You are right, these are the same deal and the manufacturer is the same. I will update to reflect that.
I could not buy 3 benefibers and use $15 worth of ESCs. The manager told me one ESC per transaction. Any one else run into this?
I could not get to print the Nestle coupon. Can anyone help? I have never printed any before.
Last month I tried to enter the same receipt for both months online & it messed up both months. Now I have to send them both in via snail mail. Yuck!
Hi Evelyn,
You really only have to have the ESR coupon scanned once and it would deduct for all of the items on your order. Even if only the code is used it gets applied to everything on your order.
hth,
Mercedes
Hi Jem,
If you are using Firefos as browser try internet explorer instead. The same applies if you are using IE switch to firefox to print coupons. this works most of the times.
Just a quick note….
The Strawberry-Kiwi for $7.99 is not the same amount that prints out a RR, or not at my store anyway. Tried this twice, didn’t work. St Louis, MO
The strawberry-kiwi Benefiber works fine in the Orlando area. I’ve done it twice this week.
I had a cashier tell me today that I could not use manufacturer coupons in combination with register rewards. I opted for coupons (but discovered the register rewards anyways in my bag when I got home.). Has anyone else run into this problem? Is it part of the rules or just a cranky cashier?
Hi,
I was so disappointed…I tried the Benefiber deal tonight and the 16 count wouldn’t print the RR. The manager said it had to be the larger size. Iowa
HI!
I was curious if you have actually done the M & M deal? When I looked at the rebate offer it says "Happy Holiday" M&Ms and the sale is for Halloween M&Ms. Do you know if it will still work? It is a great deal but I don't want to waste the time of going to the store if I don't end up getting the rebate. Thanks much!
Hi Abbi,
I don’t have an answer to your question but you can always have scan the holiday type candy and if it is not on sale have them void the product.
Mercedes
Hi Sharilyn,
It sounds like you had a cranky cashier. However I do hear that cashiers have been giving customers this line lately. Sorry to hear about the hassle.
Mercedes
You gotta check out the Walgreens deals I got over at my blog!
http://oceanskater.blogspot.com/2008/10/get-your-behind-to-walgreens.html
Guss what I found out, too late though, 3 Robitussin on 24-25th was producing 15RR – for 2 months – oct and november…..I feel like missed out a big deal..