Walgreens Shopping 101

Walgreens Shopping 101

Here is how to do it:

1. Join myWalgreens. You’ll need this to get the sale prices and earn Rewards – 1% on all purchases and 5% on Walgreens branded items.

2. Keep and read your weekly Walgreens ad insert from the Sunday paper or come to Become the Coupon Queen for the weekly deals.

3. Save your Register Rewards. myWalgreens rewards will be calculated and added to an account with your card.

4. During your first few trips to Walgreens, you will actually have to spend money to get and build your RR and myWalgreens rewards. Don’t worry. Just wait and see what all that money is going to get you!

Register Rewards are Catalina coupons that print out at the register when you purchase specified products specified.

Here are a few things you need to understand about Register Rewards and to have successful WAGS shopping trips:

• Register Rewards are manufacturer coupons that can be used to purchase anything in a Walgreens store except for items such as lotto, alcohol, cigarettes and a few other items. So, if you are purchasing an item for $5, and you are using a $3 RR, you will pay $2 out of pocket. RRs expire about two weeks after they are issued, so make sure to keep an eye on those expiration dates.
• Your total has to be over the amount of the RR. So, you cannot use a $3 RR to buy three times that are $0.99 each because your total is not $3 before tax. In this case, your RR would beep at the register, and the cashier will not accept it. A good solution to this is to purchase a filler item. Filler items are very inexpensive items ($0.01-$0.25) that can be used to make sure your total before tax is equal to or more than your RR. Make sure to check out the clearance, seasonal, and candy sections for filler items. My WAGS always has taffy for $0.10 or tootsie rolls for $0.05. So you could by your three $0.99 items, plus one $0.05 filler and use your $3RR and pay just $0.02 plus tax.
• You CAN only earn one of the same RR in a transaction. So, if you are to receive a RR when you buy one pack of diapers, you cannot purchase five packs diapers in one transaction and get five RRs back. You will only get one. To get around this, you can do five separate transactions. Make sure to be courteous and go to the end of the line for each transaction.
• You CANNOT use a Register Reward earned from an item to purchase that same item and get another RR. Now, as I mentioned this, there are RARE rare circumstances that it is actually what we call “rolling RR”. For example, if you had already done the diaper transaction once, you cannot use the RR you earned to pay for your next diaper purchase. If you were to do that, your new RR would not print. You can, however, use a RR from another product to purchase the diapers that will produce the RR. So, for example, this week Dove Men’s Body Wash is $5.99 with a $6 RR making it FREE after the RR. You could purchase the diapers first, then purchase the Dove using your diaper RR to pay for the Dove. Then, you would earn a $6 RR. This concept is called rolling Register Rewards.
• You CAN use multiple RRs in one transaction. For example, if you are buying a $25 item, you could purchase that with five $5 RRs as long as you added four filler items to satisfy the coupon-to-item ratio which I discuss below.
• If your manufacturer’s coupon is worth more than the price of an item, Walgreens coupon policy states that the cashier is suppose to adjust it down. You will have to let the cashier know to adjust the coupon value down to ensure that it is accepted. I highly recommend that you keep a copy of the coupon policy with you. You can print it here.
• To be sure that you get all the savings from all your coupons, present the manufacturer’s coupons before the Walgreen’s store coupons (the ones found in their circular and monthly catalog).

Coupon-to-Item Ratio – This is the most important part of Walgreens Shopping.

At Walgreens you cannot have more manufacturer coupons (MQ) than you have items. Keep in mind that RRs are manufacturer coupons so they count towards this ratio. Walgreens store coupons (IVCs) are not manufacturer coupons, so they do not count towards this ratio. Again, use filler items to satisfy this coupon-to-item ratio. For the diaper example that I used above, if you did the diaper transaction first and wanted to use the diaper RR to pay for the Dove (which you are also using a manufacturer coupon on), you would need to add a filler item, because right now you would have one product (the Dove) and two coupons (the $3RR and the $1 MQ). Add one small filler item, and you will be good to go!

 Walgreens Coupon Policy

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