did you use a $5 for spending $25 RR in your 3rd transaction? If you did them I believe that’s why a new one didn’t print out. but i’m really new to walgreens RRs.

The same thing happened to me today. So, since mines didn’t print, I returned everything. I got more cash back than I paid out. So I profited.

Where do you get the Walgreens activity book from with the coupons that are mentioned. I am looking for the huggies coupon

Since RRs are considered coupons, I think you need 1 more filler item at least in order to redeem it… just a heads up… I know my local ones cannot do higher coupon amounts than item amounts, and I’ve read most if not all are like that, so… those Christmas pencils for $.20 are pretty good for that!

Don’t be surprised if your deal winds up looking like this:
Here’s what I will do
1 Huggies 7.64 (15% applied)
1 fill $.43 (15% applied)
Total $8.07

Use

-$2/1 Huggies ip
-$.85/1 Huggies Wags q (from Activity book)(15% applied)
-$4.25 store coupon from this week’s buy $25, get $5 coupon deal (15% applied)

=$.97 + tax
~earn $2rr (Huggies)

You’re likely to find the employee discount applies to store coupons as well as prices.

If I had known it was not going to print, then I would have used the $5 RR to pay for a princess toy gift that after RR and $4 off toy coupon would have been $1!! Instead, I bought that in second transaction but ended up having to pay $6 for it….If I go back today and buy another item over $25 will it print $5 RR? If so, then I will use that to buy another toy….Then return the stuff I got the night before later…not trying to make a profit or fraud, just wanted to get my toy for $1!

My walgreens didn’t have those items tagged, either, and didn’t want to help me find them.

Both the ones on University Dr. and on S. Parkway are good as well. I love the one on S. Parkway because they always mark the RR deals, and I love the one on University because the overnight cashiers (two different guys) are always so nice. The one on University doesn’t mark their RR deals though, so be sure to grab a flier to make sure you’re buying the right things.

Things like gift cards, tobacco, alcohol, postage stamps… aren’t supposed to be bought with or generate RR’s.

Is this the Wags at E. North St. & Pleasantburg? If so, that’s my favorite store. They are SO helpful in there and never seem to get irritated with all my questions and coupons!

Well said!

i love how you put it. I was trying to get into CVSing/SCR/RR’s it is hard to grasp the concepts. I am blessed to get Qs through the newspaper my ma has a subscription for. Sometimes we do need to stop and think “while this could get me Free $ back…their might be someone else out there the actually needs a product for a certain condition they have or something like that”. (ie the tester Q for $30)
happy holidays.:)

I agree that people shouldn’t have 3 or more transactions with the same items, but I don’t see anything wrong with breaking the transactions up and getting more than one of the $5 RR for $25. I did purchase 2 different items on my first trip on Wed. night, but if they didn’t have a lot of them I wouldn’t have. I don’t like it when the items are all gone before lunch the first day. I don’t think my area is that bad about it but I went to another city for a Dr. appt on Thurs. morning and went by 2 walgreens looking for the “butterfly” clips and noticed everything for all RR items were completely cleaned out, at both walgreens. I was pretty surprised because around my area they still had almost everything even on Saturday night, except Butterfly clips. I will say that I tend to shop at 2 walgreens but not for any hoarding, just each one carries different things, sometimes I have to go to a 3rd one just to find the items I need. If you really need to purchase the same RR item more than once and it is something you really need and use, just don’t do it all at once and give others a chance to be able to purchase it. Just go back at the end of the week and buy it again if it is available, because then others have had a chance. I saw a lady the first day of the sale running around Walgreens in a hurry, checking out, tieing her bag putting it in her cart and going back for more. By the end she had about 6 bags tied in her cart, if she didn’t look so “assertive” I might have said something.

I agree! Everytime i go to walgreens to get the sales – they are all gone! I have to go to multiple stores just to FIND a couple items in stock It does irritate me when I see pictures up in the friday finals of piles of things I never got becuase they were gone – and I’m not talking about going the last hour of the sale – I go within the first day. Give other people a chance to get those deals! P.S. I love love love southernsavers! -even if I don’t get the deals at the drugstores I almost always get the deals at Publix -LOVE- I love saving money *Saving money to fix my husband’s motorcyle – he won’t stay off of mine ;)

My $5 off $25 “Walgreen Dollars’ all expire on 12/19 and this date did not change no matter which day I earned them this week. I earned 3 but I did NOT repeat the 4 day sale items to earn them; I bought things I will actually use. I agree with the poster above that couponing is great and so is the money we save but it does tend to make some greedy. It is frustrating to plan your shopping trip and when you get there all the deals are gone. I work full-time to supppot my family of 6 on just my income and this site has helped stretch my budget further than I could have imagined. However, I find when I get to Wags after work everything has been cleaned out.

Right, Vanessa. There are many reasons that products aren’t available during the sale. People who come in and hit early and hard are a part of it. (Those are hoarders, garage sellers, small store owners, “charity” buyers.) Store personnel who know a good deal buy SOME, but not usually a huge amount. Frequently, though, the store does not get a very large supply of the specific items, EVEN when they pre-order. I’ve found that to be one of the biggest problems in my area. They order when they get the advance ad, but get very little for the sale. They are reluctant to order too much more during the course of the week because then they wind up getting it all in a week or two AFTER the sale.

Also, most things wind up generating ECB’s & RR’s because the manufacturer wants to move them. Those items aren’t always because they are skirmishing over market share. Very often they are seasonal, introductory, having production discontinued, or having a packaging change. The warehouses only have a limited supply in stock, and the individual stores get limited amounts. Sometimes the stores receive no additional stock beyond what they already have on their shelves. Sometimes the store doesn’t realize how popular a specific item will be and doesn’t order nearly enough. Other times they get a boatload of a sale item, whether they order it, or not.

So, there is not just one factor involved. Each of these, and probably others, play into account in varying degrees in each store. I usually know what’s going to be on sale well in advance, and can see that some items are in very short supply before the sale starts.

I doubt it. But can you return them and buy them back at the sale price?

Me too. My purchase was 31 dollars before coupons/sales and RR, was $3.66 after using all coupons and 10$ RR, and I did NOT get back the 5$ Wags RR.

Lindsay,
You can only use 1 manufacturer’s coupon per item. A lot of the RR are actually manufacturer’s coupons. So if you have already used a manu on the items you are buying, the RR’s will not work.
The way to get around that is to buy some really cheap items that you don’t use coupons for. One item for each RR you are using.
For example: I bought three items, but I had manu coupons for each so I couldn’t use the RR’s to pay for the three items. I bought 4 $.33 candies and then the cash register would take the 4 RR’s that I had to pay for my 3 “real” items! Make sense?
Shay

I know I never work these deals to the highest savings, but I know that if I saved $ its a very very good thing! :) And yes, when you are getting all of that for the price of the diapers, you’ve done a good job! :)

The recession payback game is still going on. You have to play the game and then at the end you can print a coupon. Choose hunts and a $1 off 3 will print making the sauces FREE!! My ? for walgreens is that the store coupon says limit 3. Does that mean 3 cans or 3 deals/9 cans?

I know how you feel, Ashley. I have yet to walk out of WG with a warm, fuzzy feeling. I do okay, but still get confused on my running totals and am sure I gypped myself out of some savings the other day by having the checker subtotal. :P I feel like I wear the checkers out, too. I hate to make a nuisance of myself that way.

Can’t believe you lost your coupons, tho. Is that right?! Do you think they are going to submit them for products they didn’t even sell. Hmmmm.