Little Movers are considered Huggies Premium diapers, not regular diapers. Snug & Dry are considered regular diapers. They have different counts & different prices. You are overexaggerating the cost differences.

I shop primarily at Publix and know the prices best there… Little Mover boxes are $23.99 (76 size 3) and Snug & Dry are $19.99 (96 size 3).

I am an avid CVS shopper. I always start the week with ECB from the week prior. I will do the Huggies deal & use the 10ECB I have from the Pepsi deal to start plus coupons. So out of pocket, I will get 2 jumbo packs of diapers (84 diapers approx) for about $6 and the get 5ECB after. I think that is inexpensive, regardless of the size of the pack.

However, I’d agree that this CVS sale is not the best one to use as a comparison. Let’s use Publix instead:

Last night I bought diapers at Publix. I got the boxes, which are normally 19.99 at Publix. (Size 3, 96 diapers). I had a buy 2 get $10 Publix coupon, which they allowed to be used with a $3 ad promotional coupon (only allowed on one box). I also used a $2.50 off and a $2 off coupon from mailers/internet.

So I got 2 boxes (192 diapers) for $22.48. Now, in order to do this you must be a member of Publix’s baby club & stack with other coupons, but I believe this beats the Sam’s price.

Sam’s Club currently has a box of Size 3 Huggies Snug & Dry for $37.98. This comes out to about .19 cents per diaper. The size 4 is the same price for 176 diapers or about .22 cents per diaper. The Sam’s club box of Size 1-2 diapers has more than the size 3 diapers so right from the start, the every day price on Sam’s club diapers are more economical than buying at CVS.

The largest number of size 3 and 4 diapers I have been able to find in these “jumbo” packs is a little less than 40 per pack and that will vary by the type of diaper. The Little Movers jumbo packs tend to have fewer diapers than the Snug & Dry packs for example. I have a size 3 pack of Little Movers at home that has 31 diapers in it and this is what they consider a “jumbo” pack. Let’s use this one for my example.

At CVS’ $10 “sale” price, this equates to .32 cents per diaper. You would need a little more than 50 diapers per “jumbo” pack to equal Sam’s regular price. In the size 3 and higher diapers, this just isn’t going to happen.

The only reason that this is a good deal is because of the reward bucks and since you have to go back to the store to cash in on those rewards, it’s not even a good deal at that moment. In my mind, it’s just an added incentive to spend money on something that is overpriced to begin with. Drug stores still have the highest prices around. If the product is overpriced to begin with, how much are you really saving?

the idea behind couponing is stocking up on certain items when they are on sale.

if buying diapers at sam’s, you get a box of 288 huggies size 1-2 diapers for $37.98.

if buying the smaller packs (like these. they generally cost $9.99 without sales or coupons), jumbo packs of huggies will come 50 to a pack for size 1.

that means, you have to get about 6 of them to equal the amount of the large sam’s box (300 diapers).

at 5.50 a pack (after RR and coupons), you are saving a considerable amount of money by buying them at walgreens instead of sam’s. you’ll get 300 diapers for $33.30.

in most instances, you can get these size packs under $5. i got many at babys ‘r us on new years for $3. if you are a member of publix baby club, they will send you awesome coupons that will make your savings even greater.

in general, sam’s is quite possibly one of the most expensive places to buy diapers.

good luck!

Molly,
The jumbo packs of diapers I believe have about 27 in them (Little Movers, or about 30 for Snug and Dry) for my son who is a size 4. The smaller the size the packs go up by about 3-5 diapers a pack.

Thanks for the zip code Mercedes!

try 60712

Mercedes

Mercedes