Welcome, my fellow Walgreens fans! It’s Sunday, time for our weekly Walgreens $5 Challenge. The place to come for simple scenarios with step-by-step instructions.
This is one of the best weeks I have ever seen at Walgreens! Don’t miss all the awesome FREEbies!
If you are new to Walgreens, and wanting to learn the basics, check out this post. I am so happy to see this Challenge grow. Thank you for jumping in and participating each week.
If you are a first time visitor, here’s the lowdown:
Join me each week as I host The Walgreens $5 Challenge!
Seasoned WAGS shoppers: share your best scenario(s) for the upcoming week at Walgreens.
Your budget: $5.00 out-of-pocket cash.
Your mission: to grow that $5.00 into more Register Rewards (RR) to use in upcoming weeks.
Want to participate? Start by reading the rules here.
*********************************
Here is MY $5 Scenario for the week of September 27th:
*coupons in red
Transaction #1
Buy 1 Oral-B Advantage 1-2-3 Toothbrush @ $3.00
Buy 1 Reese’s Candy @ $0.49 w/in-ad coupon
$0.75/1 Oral-B Advantage (P&G insert 9/27)
$0.55/1 Reese’s Candy Product (SS insert 8/23)
Total After Coupons= $2.25
RRs Earned= $3.00
Transaction #2
Buy 1 ChapStick Fresh Effects @$2.99
Buy 1 Dentek Floss Picks @ $2.00
$1.00/1 Dentek Floss Picks printable here
Pay with $3.00 RR’s from above
Total After Coupon & RR’s= $0.99
RRs Earned= $2.99, $2.00
Transaction #3
Buy 1 Vaseline Sheer Infusion Lotion, 6.8 oz. @ $6.99
Buy 1 Robitussin DM To Go 2 pk @ $2.49
Buy (2) Hunt’s Tomatoes Sauces @ $0.39 w/in-ad coupon (fillers)
$1.50/1 Vaseline Sheer Infusion printables HERE, HERE, or HERE
$2.00/1 Robitussin printable HERE (must register)
Pay with $2.00, $2.99 RRs from above
Total After Coupons & ECBs= $1.77
RRs Earned= $2.00, $6.99
Grand Total OOP= $5.01!
Total Value= $18.74 with $8.99 Register Rewards remaining!
Keep rolling those RR’s for more savings!
*************************************
There you have it! A way to play the WAGS game by helping newbies learn the ropes. And who knows – you just might be inspired yourself by some of the deals you find, too!
Simply post your scenarios on your blog, then drop by Keeping the Kingdom First and add your permalink to Mr. Linky below. (If you are reading via email or in a reader please click through to see the Mr. Linky)
Please link directly to your scenarios. Links directly to your homepage will be deleted. Linking back to this meme to share it with others is greatly appreciated!
Don’t have a blog? You can leave a comment with your scenario, too. I invite everyone to participate.
I thought you could not use a RR to purchase an item that would also net you an RR because they cancel each other out? That is how it is at my Walgreen’s at any rate. Can you please advise?
Thanks,
Lisa
Hi Lisa,
Actually, you can use an RR to purchase a different item and still receive RRs. You just can’t “roll” them on the same item over and over, like you can at CVS.
The scenario above should work, since each item is a different promotion. Hope that helps! 🙂
Great! Thanks for the clarification. I tend to avoid Walgreens b/c they are not as flexible as CVS but with your suggestions and scenarios I will give it a go.
My Wags says if you use a coupon on an item with a rr you will not receive the rr (and it proved to be true)…So I’ve stopped going to Wags!! O’well
I’ve had some issues in the past with RRs not printing, and one of my blog readers filled me in with a tip she learned from a Wags manager who had a couponing wife!
Apparently, RRs don’t print if you use a RR that you got from an item that is made by the same manufacturer. So, you can keep using coupons and rolling your RRs, just be careful that you’re not using an RR from the same manfctr.
.-= Kristi_runwatch´s last blog ..Walgreensapalooza =-.
Help! I tried Walgreens for the first time yesterday. The cashier would not let me use man coupons on anything that would print a RR. Then the RRs didn’t print for anything and she says I have to go back later to pick them up?!?! Now I’m hearing on another post that you can only use 1 RR to pay on each visit. Can you comment on this?
Kristi…It is very possiable I used a RR from the Tylenol I bought last week on the Benadryl that I didn’t earn the RR on…I never thought of that…But why are some people hearing from Corporate that if you use a man. coupon you will not receive a RR??
Yup…I did use the RR from the Tylenol…So maybe that’s why it didn’t print? The manager told me to come back in and he’d give me the RR that didn’t print…So that’s nice of him.
Jennifer, I am so glad you figured it out! It is hard when you don’t know if the manufacturer might be the same on different products.
Elizabeth- Sounds like your cashier is very misinformed or poorly trained. You CAN use coupons on items that will produce RR’s, the computer will still print it.
I have used more than one RR in a transaction without any issues. 🙁
Walgreens can be frustrating, because management is often confused themselves about RRs. I suggest trying a different cashier, speaking to the manager, or just going to a different store altogether.
Alyssa – totally agree about trying a different store. I consistently had problems at the store closest to me, the employees were poorly trained and rude, and the managers were unhelpful and uncourteous!! frustrating!
I started going to a different store and it’s night and day. The employees are so nice much more informed. They have signage in the store about register reward deals, and the employees sometimes even fill me in on unadvertised items that print register rewards!
.-= Kristi_runwatch´s last blog ..Walgreensapalooza =-.
I just printed off the Robitussin coupon and it says excludes Robitussin ToGo 2 Count. Isn’t that what is in the ad?