Coupon Matchups: Jewel-Osco Deals of the Week 12/26/15 – 1/1/16

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1. Assassin says

   December 28, 2015 at 12:26 am

   a note/question on the .79 Dr. Pepper 2-liter offer:

   i had a MyMixx “Save $1.00 on THREE (3) 2-liter bottles of any flavor (Reg., TEN or Diet) 7UP, A&W, Canada Dry, Squirt, Sun Drop, or Sunkist Soda”. i was expecting it to stack with the store sale, but found it did something weird.. three of the bottles had $1.10 subtracted from their $1.89 regular price to reflect the 79-cent sale price. the fourth ostensibly had the $1.00 MyMixx savings, but then it only had a $0.10 discount for the sale!

   in other words, the total for the 4 bottles was $3.16 ($0.79 * 4) rather than the $2.16 i expected. the MyMixx savings were functionally nothing.

   after some back and forth with the cashier, they took off an additional $1.00 as a Manufacturer’s Coupon, but it was with the “I don’t want to argue with you” caveat. :P

   i thought that MyMixx was like a digital manufacturer’s coupon, and would stack with store sales. was my thinking wrong?

   the same purchase failed to take off a straightforward MyMixx $1 coupon for any Palermo’s frozen pizza (which the service desk refunded me on), so i’m convinced that whoever codes these things into the computer system is a baboon. but i want to rule out me having any misconceptions of the rules for future purchases.

   any insights would be appreciated.

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   • Coupon Maven says

     December 28, 2015 at 6:50 pm

     Assassin, the issue you described has been around since MyMixx launched this past Spring, unfortunately. I had reached out to them about this (as did other area bloggers — we’ve all had this happen to us too!) and they told us they were “working on it.” You absolutely did the right thing in going to the customer service counter for an adjustment.

     I blogged about your experience, as well as an issue I had there yesterday too, here:

     https://jillcataldo.com/jewel-osco-mymixx-ecoupon-issues-continue/

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2. assassin says

   December 29, 2015 at 12:34 am

   Coupon Maven,

   thanks for the reply, and for the more detailed blog entry. it’s good to know i’m not losing my mind. and the B1G1F with the $x-off-2 issue is something i’ll keep an eye out for when paying in the future.

   i only mentioned the Palermo’s pizza issue in passing in my previous post, but there was indeed a B1G1F store sale. however, the MyMixx ecoupon was $1-off-1, so how that one got omitted is perplexing. it could just be a fluke, as opposed to the more repeat, systemic issues you cover in your blog post.

   regarding the problem with the 7-UP/etc 2-liter bottles.. i noticed that in the totals on the bottom of receipts, MyMixx savings are categorized under “Promotional Savings”. and the $1.89==>$0.79 sale on the 2-liters is also done via “Promotional Savings”. maybe there’s a “floor” as to how much that one category can lower an item’s price?

   perhaps if and when Jewel ever fixes this problem, they’ll come up with a new category for MyMixx, so as to remove any clashes with sales.. or they’ll make their computers handle “Promotional Savings” in a more nuanced way.

   i’m not sure why some store sales are considered promotional rather than simply “You Save” in the first place. can the “You Save” type of sale enforce the “Must buy in multiples of X” rule? who knows what their reasoning is.. the last three paragraphs have been speculation, with me trying to get inside the head of their silly computers.

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