Walgreens - April 18, 2011

Granted, CVS is by far my favorite drug store to shop at. However, Walgreens can often have surprisingly good deals. My own mother likes to shop at Walgreens for their weekly deals and in-ad store coupons. But as this illustrates, utilization of manufacturer's coupons and Register Rewards helped me receive up to a 72% increase in savings over simply shopping the sales.

Not pictured: Yahtzee game (it had already put it away on the top of our game shelf and I forgot to bring it back down for the picture).

Item	Sale Price	Coupon	Final Price	RRs Earned
Goody Headband + Hairbands	$3.00		$3.00	$3.00
Dove Candy Bars	$1.17	$1.00	$0.17
Register Reward Used		$1.00	-$1.00
	$4.17	$2.00	$2.17	$3.00
Item	Sale Price	Coupon	Final Price	RRs Earned
Goody Headband + Hairbands	$3.00		$3.00	$3.00
Scotch Tape	$1.99	$1.00	$0.99
Scotch Tape	$1.99		$1.99
Scotch Tape	$1.99		$1.99
Gold Medal Flour, 5 lbs	$1.50		$1.50
Gold Medal Flour, 5 lbs	$1.50		$1.50
Register Reward Used		$4.00	-$4.00
	$11.97	$5.00	$6.97	$3.00
Item	Sale Price	Coupon	Final Price	RRs Earned
Colgate toothpaste	$3.00	$1.00	$2.00	$4.00
Colgate toothpaste	$3.00	$0.75	$2.25
Crayola Color Explosion	$1.50	$1.00	$0.50
Chocolate Covered Peeps X 2	$1.00	$1.00	$0.00
Chocolate Covered Peeps X 2	$1.00	$1.00	$0.00
Dozen Eggs X 2 **	$2.58	$0.55	$2.03
Register Reward Used		$3.00	-$3.00
	$12.08	$8.30	$3.78	$4.00
** Two Free Redbox Codes with Purchase of Two Dozen Eggs
Item	Sale Price	Coupon	Final Price	RRs Earned
Goody Headband + Hairbands	$3.00		$3.00	$3.00
Yahtzee	$3.50		$3.50
Gold Medal Flour, 5 lbs	$1.50		$1.50
Gold Medal Flour, 5 lbs	$1.50		$1.50
		$4.00	-$4.00
	$9.50	$0.00	$5.50	$3.00
Sale Price Total	$37.72
Savings Percent over sale	51.17%
Total OOP:	$18.42
RR left:	$6.00
Two Redbox Codes value	$2.00
Savings Including RR & Codes:	72.38%

Black Friday Sales - at a Pharmacy?

One of the great things I discovered in couponing is that Black Friday is not only for electronics and toys, but killer deals on household products!

Last year I went to CVS for their sales. I wanted to keep my out of pocket (OOP) cost as low as possible, so I wanted to find a way to "roll" my initial 9.98 in ECBs (see The Krazy Coupon Lady's CVS 101 for more information on these) into as much free stuff as possible. This meant four transactions. However, the store was pretty dead when I went in the morning, so I think the cashier was glad I split things up and gave him more to do!

A breakdown of my trips is as follows:

Note: It would have been more efficient if I had purchased the Old Spice deodorant first. However, since it was my first time CVS Black Friday shopping, I had arranged my purchases according to importance to me. That way if certain items were low, I could concentrate only on those things I wanted most. 

I later came to find out CVS does offer rain checks on items - but when I tried to use a rain check later on a Black Friday item, the manager was not very pleasant (although he did honor it).