I’m positive that a customer using coupons has absolutely no bearing on an employee’s salary or hourly pay! In fact, Walgreens employees should be grateful that we shop in there stores, making Walgreens more money to pay them. It has already been stated, but again, Walgreens is reimbursed for every penny of each coupon plus $.08. So my using a coupon is the same as using cash. This goes for RR’s too, they are manufacterer’s coupons which are mailed to the same place as regular coupons and reimbursed the same way. RR’s are great for Walgreens employees too, they bring the customer BACK to spend more! Companies don’t put out coupons hoping that no one uses them, they actually want them to be used and they hope that their usage creates brand loyalty, which in some cases it does. There have been many things which I have gotten cheap or free with couponing that I have fallen in love with and will buy with or without the deal. Final thought: If anything, Walgreens cashiers should have an easier time feeding their families, look at how available the deals are to them

1. A customer uses a Register Reward printed from purchasing Product X toward purchasing another Product X. This is a blatant attempt to abuse the system and it does not work. If you purchase the product, the machine will not print another copy of the coupon.

2. A customer purchases items which net them Register Rewards. They then return the item but not the Register Reward. The management knows what is going on (they’re not idiots) and will give a refund for the product less the amount of the Register Reward.

3. A customer tries to get the ‘most of their coupons’ and get money off an item that has been reduced to zero. The current Walgreens register is programmed to take off a set amount of the price of an item, and the machine will take off the programmed amount regardless of the adjusted price. This is taking advantage of the system and the coupon order (W coupon first, MFR coupon second, RR last) Walgreens cashiers are supposed to use is designed to minimize this issue.

A new issue that some people are complaining about is the ‘One RR per item per day per customer’ rule. This policy was instituted recently due to a person ringing up nearly two dozen of the same item in separate transactions to get nearly two dozen Register Rewards.

If it’s really that important to you, you can drive around to each Walgreens to get one Register Reward, but smart money says you’re spending more on gas than you’re saving on RRs.

I’m not disgruntled, just fed up with cashier abuse.