Walgreens allows you to stack their store coupons with manufacturer's coupons. This includes the coupons that you see in their weekly fliers.
One thing that most people don't realize is this: the coupons in the weekly ad will work multiple times. So, if the coupon is for .45 off Dial soap, it will take .45 off each Dial soap you purchase in that transaction.
Walgreens does not allow overage. Well, not technically. However, overage is possible at Walgreens, but you have to know the correct order of coupon redemption for making it work correctly.
For the following examples, we will pretend that Dial soap sells for $2.99 at Walgreens.
Example of how to not get overage: Dial soap is on sale for .99 with the "in store" coupon that can be found in the Walgreens weekly sales ad. You have a manufacturer's coupon for $1 off any Dial soap. If you give the cashier the Walgreens coupon first, it reduces the price to .99 and your manufacturer's coupon will be rejected by the register (it will beep and refuse to lower the price).
Example of how to get overage: Dial soap is on sale for .99 with the "in store" coupon that can be found in the Walgreens weekly sales ad. You have a manufacturer's coupon for $1 off any Dial soap. If you give the cashier the $1 coupon, this makes the register think you are still paying $1.99 for the soap and it accepts the coupon. Then you hand the cashier your "in store" coupon and it reduces the total price to .99 for each item...so now you have made .01 for every dial soap you purchased this way.
I know that seems confusing and maybe a little crazy. Yet, that is how it works.
Register Rewards. I have a love/hate relationship with them. Register rewards are specific to Walgreens. You can look in their weekly sales ad and find items that are will produce register rewards. Often, you have to buy x amount of products or a certain value amount to qualify for a register reward. Here are some things to keep in mind about register rewards:
- You can use coupons on the items you are purchasing to get the register reward. It is possible to purchase x amount of items and use coupons to get more value in register rewards than you actually spent.
- If you purchase an item and receive a register reward, you can not turn around and purchase the exact same item with the register reward and get another register reward as a result.
- You can roll register rewards. This means finding two deals that you like. Use the register reward from register reward deal A to lower the cost of your purchase for register reward deal B and then keep the cycle going.
- One caveat if you are trying to roll register rewards...if two different deals are actually sponsored by the same manufacturer, it will not roll. Meaning this, if deal A is for Johnson's Baby Wash and deal B is for Johnson's Adult Body Wash, they are both sponsored by Johnson and Johnson and probably will not roll. Thus, know your manufacturer's and how many different company names are held by the same "parent" company.
- Register rewards often expire within 2 weeks of the date you receive them. So, watch the expiration date!!!
- If you want to use a register reward to lower your cost of an item and also have a coupon for that item, you will have to buy a "cheap filler". Example: you want to buy Tylenol that is on sale for $7 this week and you have a $4 register reward to spend and a $2 manufacturer's coupon to spend. You can use both, but ONLY if you buy some other cheap item as well. The cash register will "attach" each coupon to an item and register rewards are seen as manufacturers coupons, so you have to have an item to match up with each coupon. Please note, the value of each item in this situation does not have to equal or exceed the coupon value. So, you buy the Tylenol ($7) and a piece of taffy ($.15) and redeem both your coupons ($4 and $2). Your new total will be $1.15 plus tax.
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