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Dollar General changing coupon policy (maybe)

February 27, 2011 by · Leave a Comment

Some shoppers have been reporting in to hotcouponworld that they’ve been having some coupon trouble quite recently at Dollar General. Apparently, in some regions, they are implementing the policy that they will no longer accept any coupons if it makes the item free.

In other words, no more–
free Olay body wash with the $2 coupons
free Gain with the $3 coupons
free dental floss and toothbrushes with the $1 coupons

and so on………

So far it appears to only be happening in the midwest, but who knows. Just don’t be totally surprised, or have a plan B, if you get shot down. Hmph, how annoying. The store gets reimbursed from the manufacturers, so I don’t understand what the big deal is.

In any event, I will do the DG coupon matchups later.

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any Sunday must-do deals? Feb 27

February 27, 2011 by · Leave a Comment

Yes! Actually there are some this week.

Walgreen’s is going to be hopping with couponers this week. For my newcomers from my class this morning, here is a brief rundown of the Walgreen’s rules–it gets complicated very quickly, so if you have any questions, please contact me here or thru the Facebook page. I’ll be happy to help, or chances are one of the other readers may answer your question before I even see it.

The following items are FREE after Register Rewards (RRs). That is, they are giving back the same amount in RRs that you pay for the item. Add in the coupons that are out there for these items, and you’ll pay less than what you’ll get back. Kudos to the couponers at hcw for compiling the info.

$10 RR wyb Applied Nutrition Anti-Aging Total Body Defense 50 ct $10
$4.99 RR wyb NasoGel Drip-Free Gel Spray 1oz $4.99
$3 RR wyb Motrin IB Pain Relief 20 ct $3
$3 RR wyb Baby Magic Lotion or Hair & Body Wash 16.5 oz $3
$2.99 RR wyb Colgate Total Gum Defense or Total Advanced 4 oz. $2.99
$1.99 RR wyb Super Poligrip Free .75 oz. $1.99

The Motrin and the Baby Magic is a gain of $$, coupons in 1/9 for Motrin, and Baby Magic has a coupon on facebook, I think. Also look for hangtags on the bottles. I would expect stores to run out of these items, hopefully not.

I plan on going and getting a bunch of Motrin, then using those RRs to buy other things, like the Baby Magic. Then I’ll just hang on to my RRs and wait for opportunities within the next two weeks, to roll them.

Then, at CVS, there are items giving back the same amount in Extra Care Bucks (ECBs) that you spend on the item. For more details and discussion, look at the thread on hcw.

Crest Pro Health, at $3.29, $1 coupons in today’s paper
Revitalens solution at $5.99
Physician’s Formula is also a good deal, get $7 when you spend $10. Coupons last week, plus look for “try me free” rebate peelies on the items. If you can’t find them, go to the Rite Aid in Kennett Square, I know they have them on their products.
Softsoap body was is giving back $2 when you buy the $2.99 body wash.

There’s also a $10 back when you spend $30 on select Procter & Gamble products. Since Pampers are included, I plan on blowing whatever ECBs I have built up on the Pampers, then I’ll be back down to $10 worth again.

Then, I’ll head over to Genuardi’s and see if I can double dip on the frozen food deal. If I can get six bags of Ore Ida for a buck, yipppee! That will last me a year.

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current national catalinas, Feb/March

February 27, 2011 by · Leave a Comment

Here are some current catalina deals. I’ve gotten the ‘warning catalina’ for them at Acme, and I’ve seen other bloggers post them for other stores like A&P and ShopRite, so I feel comfortable saying that these most likely are at all stores that do catalina promotions. In most cases, I don’t see why they wouldn’t “roll” or why you couldn’t use them to do your next catalina deal.

OYNO=On Your Next Order

Buy Betty Crocker Fruit Flavored Snacks
Feb 22-March 21
Buy 3, get $1.50
buy 4, get $2.50
buy 5+, get $3.50
Lots and lots of coupons for this–look up top and you’ll see my “Box Tops Resource Page” which includes six different links to General Mills/Betty Crocker printable coupons.

Cottonelle Wipes
Feb 21-March 20
On 42ct or higher
Buy 2, get $1.50 back
Buy 3, get $2 back
Buy 4 or more, get $2.50 back.
There were $1 off 2 coupons in the 1/23 inserts or try this printable
 
Friskies wet cat food
Feb 25-March 20
buy 12, get $1
buy 24, get $2
buy 36 or more, get $3
coupons in 2/13 inserts
printable for $1 off 15 cans?
Check coupons dot com banner at top of blog (affiliate banner) as they often have Friskies coupons.

Post Pebbles cereal
Feb 25-March 20
Buy 3 get $2
Buy 4 get $3
Buy 5 get $4
No current coupons

Velveeta Shells and Cheese
Feb 21- March 20
Buy 3 get $2
Buy 4 get $3
Buy 5 get $4
Only coupons are tearpads/peelies/home mailers

Reach Toothbrush **keep your eyes open for sales, this could mean free toothbrushes**
March 6-March 29
Buy 2 get $1
Buy 3 get $2
Buy 4+ get $4
Coupons in 1/9 inserts, and 10/10 inserts (good till 4/30/11!)
$2 off 2 printable
$1 off 1 printable

 
 
 
 

Filed Under: Acme sales, deals and coupons, Grocery Store ads, deals, matchups, coupons and clearance finds, National Chains and Big Box stores Tagged With: ,

Kmart P&G deal

February 27, 2011 by · Leave a Comment

I didn’t get a Kmart ad with my paper today and it’s not online yet. There is a one page ad intermixed with the Smartsource coupons.

Here’s the deal–
Buy $35 worth of Procter & Gamble items, get a $10 catalina back to use NEXT week. Cannot turn right around & use it on another deal. I think I’ll sit this one out, because:

They are doing superdoubles (doubling all coupons up to & including $2 of face value), but….only P&G coupons.
Minimum $25 purchase required to do superdoubles, and only first *5* coupons will double, after that all others are at face value.

So, you have to do $25 for superdoubles, but spend $35 for the $10 catalina, so essentially, you are paying for that $10 catalina. Works on sale prices, not shelf prices. And I can’t find prices for anything posted anywhere. I’ve never, ever seen P&G do online printable coupons.

Even if I assume that the Pampers are on sale for $8.99 a pack-
4 packs to hit $35
4 $2 coupons doubled, minus $16
Pay $19, get $10 back
$9 for 4 packs of diapers………eh. I guess I’m spoiled.

I will keep my eye on the Kmart thread on hotcouponworld, and if anything good pops up, I’ll post it.

Some of the higher value P&G coupons from Sunday’s paper, that may make it worth while to at least do a $25 purchase to get the superdoubles.
$2 off Tampax 18ct or higher
$2 off gilette bodywash
$2 off gillette proseries skin care
$2 off secret clinical

Online-the price for tampax 20 ct is $4.50.  Five boxes is $22.50, get a $2.50 something that you need filler to hit $25. Use five of the $2 coupons, doubled, pay $5 for five boxes of Tampax and whatever else you bought. You can still use a coupon on that something else–maybe find Crest for around $2.50, use the $1 coupon.

Yay for Delaware for no sales tax too! I go to the Pike Creek store. They’ve been very coupon friendly lately. Just make sure you hand over your five coupons that you want doubled FIRST, then when those are scanned in, hand over the rest.

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