Comments on: Dead Deal: Walgreens: 15% Discount Coupon and Holiday Register Reward Scenario

By: Patricia

Patricia — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:57:35 +0000

Thanks, I’m going to look today.

By: Nina

Nina — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:33:22 +0000

Oops! Typos… I’m on my phone….

By: Ninan

Ninan — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:30:49 +0000

Thank you so much for responding! I have to say… You are totally my new hero! I found this site when I started coupon shopping as well as discovered Walgreens about 3 weeks ago… In that short amount of time I have already been able to save probably close to $200.00! I thin you are brilliant. Thank you for taking the time to explain this all to me… I appreciate you very much!

By: Mercedes

Mercedes — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:48:28 +0000

Hi Nina,

My scenarios really are suggestions of what people could do. Let’s try to answer some questions:

In the first scenario I suggested buying the John Frieda because yesterday people would have spend a bit under $3 and gotten a $5 register reward back. So they would have “made” $2 and this would have made the out of pocket expense in the next transaction lower.

I lower the value that the walgreens coupons would deduct by 15% because a reader mentioned at the beginning of the comments that they 15% off coupon also applied to the Walgreens store coupons but it turned out not to be the case and the coupons were still deducting the full value. So that was a nice surprise.

I suggested adding the bag of chocolates because I wasn’t sure if the Holiday register reward would print if your total was less than $25 after the 15% off friends and family coupon.

Like I said my scenarios are always just suggestions to get people’s minds going on what tthey could do or but at Walgreens for very little. In your case since you didnt have a Holiday register reward and you added items you had no coupons for (soups, milk and candy bar) then that’s why your total was higher but you still did very well.

I hope this helps,

Mercedes

By: Ninan

Ninan — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:36:09 +0000

I have been following the advice on here, I am very excited about about this site & very grateful too! However; it is important to me that I understand how things work… How I’m saving what I’m saving, which coupons work together & why, what the total expense minus savings will total, etc. That said, I am really confused by this scenario… In the first example, why do you deduct $10.20 for the $3/1 John Frieda coupon? Wouldn’t you be deducting $3.00 off of each box which would total $12? I’m confused…. Also, on the second scenario it says you deduct $4.00 with the manufacture coupons (which I get), but then it says to deduct $3.4 off of for the two other $2.00 off coupons… So when I tally it up you are using $8.00 in coupons for the Viva towels, not $7.40?
Then, I also don’t really understand why/how you spend less by getting more? I would never use the John Frieda products… And I don’t need the bag of chocolates… So I bought Viva paper towels and I used all the coupons & the 15% discount so I spent $3.88 for two packs…. With coupons & the discount, I also purchased six candy bars for .33 each ($1.98) and four cans of soup at .37 each ($1.48) and one gallon of milk on sale for $1.99 so my total after tax was $10.29
I think I did well, but with not quite understanding your scenarios and your total being half of mine… I was a little dissapointed in myself. Any help in understanding this is appreciated!!

By: Kim

Kim — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:10:20 +0000

Amy, ask them if they have the sheet of coupons that looks like its been photocopied. One of my Wags had some but the print was so small I was going to have to look at them thru my microscope at work.. lol.
I asked at another store & she gave me a copy of the pages that were large enough to actually read.. even without cheaters for reading.

also, somewhere over the last few days, I saw a copy of the sheets online so you could probably just copy it then enlarge each page in Photoshop or some other such program.. if you could find it that is. They dont have to scan the picture.. they can just enter the code.. if they will.

By: Kim

Kim — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:05:01 +0000

Even though, it was a Wags IVC it did show up on the receipt as a Manufacturer coupon. This would probably explain why some people are having problems with the John Frieda deal

That explains why some of my Qs wouldnt work..She scanned the Flier first.. Thankfully the store manager was standing there next to us and was in a good mood!!
When they were trying to figure it out she told the cashier to just enter it as a manf Q and the amount and she’d sign for it..

I got 3 JF shampoos, 3 conditioners, and 3 detangler/conditioners, 1 Pert for Men, and 2 little kiddie books for $5.97! Gotta LOVE THAT!!

Thanks!!

By: Amy M

Amy M — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:15:52 +0000

I went to Walgreens and nobody knew anything about the big savings book (the $200 one). Help?

By: Nina

Nina — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:39:22 +0000

I was wondering this too…. I just left Walgreens and I grabbed one of every coupon book they had but the Big Savings booklet wasn’t there? I’m going to call and ask them about it…..

By: pennyscents

pennyscents — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:29:30 +0000

I used one of the coupons from this flyer this week. It was the $5.00 off Sunbeam IVC. There was a stack of them printed out and stapled to the sales tag by the item. Even though, it was a Wags IVC it did show up on the receipt as a Manufacturer coupon. This would probably explain why some people are having problems with the John Frieda deal.

By: jen

jen — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:41:48 +0000

i didn’t get the $5 RR, the cashier said she thought that ended yesterday? but I did buy two boxes of hersheys gold on sale for 2 for 6, then used 2 ($1 off 1) to make it 2 for 4, then i got a surprise RR for $3 from hershey! yay!

By: Erin

Erin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:01:39 +0000

No, I used it to roll into the Complete last night and it worked fine. The $5 RR was from last week though.

By: Erin

Erin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:58:09 +0000

I have an extra one that I’m thinking of putting on ebay. I know I have seen some in the past on there. I would consider trading for postage stamps but I don’t really need any more coupons.

By: Tonya

Tonya — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:52:59 +0000

I know it’s a little late, but in case you’re going to do the John Freida deal with the 15% off. The JF coupon in the $200 savings flyer scans as a Manufacturer coupon even though it says Wags coupon. Only the coupons that scan as Wags coupons take off 15%. You can see on your receipt which ones scan as manu. coupons and which scan as Wags coupon. All the in ad coupons will take off 15%

By: Mercedes

Mercedes — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:16:14 +0000

Hi jenae

but the holiday register reward is no longer printing

Mercedes

By: Lynn

Lynn — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:23:30 +0000

I printed the Viva coupon a couple weeks ago cause it looked promising. I think it reached it’s print limit.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:21:01 +0000

I did the 4 John Frieda items (Root awakening ) and they came out to .44 cents each after 15% facebook coupon and the mfg and wags coupons. I added a box of Cinnimon Toast Cruch cereal (1.99 on sale less 15% les .55 coupon)

On the second deal I skipped the chocolate cause I couldnt find it in the store but I picked up two Viva’s as well as 2 Nexxus shampoos at $5.49 each, less 15% Facebook coupon and $4.00 in store wags coupon. The shampoos came out to .67 each

I spent $5.27 on 4 Frieda items, 2 nexxus shampoos, 2 viva towl 6 packs and 1 box cereal. Not too shabby.

By: Jenae

Jenae — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:09:04 +0000

I don’t understand why this is dead…the 15% off coupon is still valid through Friday.

By: Kristin

Kristin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:19:42 +0000

Juanita – I have one store in my area that has that coupon as well. I asked her where I can get it and she said it’s not available online and that some people may have gotten it in the mail. She said they just keep it behind the counter to use when a customer hits $20.00. She told me that it was good through the New Year. I have been to several stores several times over the last 2 weeks and that is the only store I have been to that has it (or at least that has used it)

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:59:11 +0000

Juanita: I saw a similar coupon $5/20 at my parents house, they received it by mail and it is related with medicare part D, o something like that.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:29:04 +0000

Weird. It’s not doing it on the instore Wags coupon for the John Frieda. I’ll have to watch out for that!

By: Juanita

Juanita — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:53:14 +0000

When I went to Walgreens on Wednesday and made my $25 purchase, a very nice cashier scanned a $5 off $20 Wags coupon. I had to ask her what she was scanning since I hadn’t seen it before. I believe the expiration date for it was 12-24. So I saved $5 and got back the $25 purchase $5 RR for a savings total of $10. Very happy about that!

I went today to get the diapers that I forgot yesterday and some of their BOGO toys and the cashier (a different one) did not scan the extra coupon and said she didn’t know what it was when I asked about it. Anyone know where to get this coupon??

By: Kristin

Kristin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:06:50 +0000

Sorry for giving you wrong information. As everyone has reported (and it worked for me too) the John Frieda coupon (and others as well) are taking off the full amount. I’m not sure about the coloring book coupons or the December monthly coupons but the $200 book seems to be taking off the full amount.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:33:37 +0000

It seems that if we used the $5 Holiday register Reward to buy a RR item, the RR for that item would not print. Did it happen to someone else?

By: Mercedes

Mercedes — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:07:16 +0000

Hi Erika,

The coupon says one coupon per customer per offer but when the coupon is scanned it applies to all of the items in your order. So you do end up just using one coupon but it deducts for a many of the items you have in your order the coupon is good for.

Mercedes