Thursday, June 18, 2009

Did you know that Meijer, Target, Walgreens and CVS will let you use their store coupons along with manufacturer coupons? That's right, you can use 2 coupons for one item!!


Meijer:
Go to Meijermealbox.com. Once there, click on specials in the box to the right of the screen. They also have recipes and meal planning options. Usually, there are about 3-4 pages of coupons. The bad thing about these coupons is that they only print 1 per page and the coupon is pretty small. You may waste a lot of paper unless you can figure out a way of getting more than one coupon per page. They also now have mperks.meijer.com. This lets you use your cell phone number to load coupons to. At the register, you will see on the debit card machine, an Mperks logo. Click that and enter you cell phone number and the coupons that you loaded will automatically come off of your total. It will show on your receipt under the product that it came off.

Target:
Target is pretty much the same as Meijer. Go to Target.com and scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and find where it says grocery coupons. There you will find the weekly coupons. New coupons are added every week.

CVS:
Did you know that you can scan your CVS card in the store and get coupons? I don't shop CVS often but every time I go in I scan my card. A lot of times, I get coupons for CVS brands but I've also gotten Huggies, Revlon and coupons for $10 off of $30. They have others as well. Once again, you can use these with manufacturer coupons. You can also use these coupons with Extra Care Bucks that you can earn when you buy certain items that are on sale. For example, toothpaste is on sale for $1.99, after you get the ECB, it's like getting it for $.99. Oh but wait, I have a coupon for $1.00 off the that particular toothpaste so now it's like I'm getting it for free. You still will pay $1.00 out of pocket for it, but you will get the ECB for $1.00 to use on a different purchase. I would go to afullcup.com and click on the CVS link and read how people master the art of "CVS'ing. They get tons of stuff for free but like I said, I don't shop there very often to get the good deals other people get.

Walgreens:
I shop here more than CVS but still it's not high on my list. Look at the Sunday ad for coupons for Walgreens. They are usually all throughout the ad. At walgreens you can earn Register Rewards. This is much like CVS Extra Care Bucks. You have to buy certain items that are on sale that week and then you get the Register Rewards at the end of the order to use on a future purchase. A lot of times Walgreens has diapers on sale so I will buy something that generates Register Rewards and turn around and use them on my diaper purchase. I can usually get diapers for around $2-3 a pack. Just a side note, Walgreens diapers are great. I have been using them now for a few years and have never had any problems with them. They tend to run small but other than that, they are great!
Register Rewards are manufacture coupons so you can use them at Meijer as a coupon because Meijer accepts competitor's coupons


Lisa B