I went to Walgreens today to stock up on bacon (16oz. Oscar Mayer is $3 after Balance Rewards – a super price!) and I had a $5 Register Reward from doing the Crest deal earlier in the week. I still had some Crest coupons left, so I did another round (Crest is .33 per tube after coupon/RR.)
Then, armed with two $5 Register Rewards, I decided to try to use them to buy my bacon. Reader SSMark1 noted that in his experience, as long as you are buying one item in your transaction that equals or exceeds the cost of the Register Reward, in his experience, you could use it. This does contradict the written policy, but I figured – let’s see what happens…
Bear with me as I try to explain this, because it’s a little confusing.
As I was loading my basket with bacon, I noticed many summer items on clearance. I picked up a mesh backpack for $5.49 (thought it looked like a good way to keep my kids sand toys together and the bag sand-free) and a beach bag for $1.25.
So, I bought one $5.49 item (mesh backpack,) one $1.25 item (beach bag) and eight $4 items (bacon.)
I handed over two $5 Crest Register Rewards. Both scanned without issue, and I paid $29.82 with tax & got 8000 Balance Rewards points ($8) back for the bacon.
Now, the question is…
1) Did both of my two $5 Register Rewards attach to the mesh backpack, as it was the only item that exceeded their $5 face values, or;
2) Is the store’s register not yet updated to exclude RRs from being used on lower-priced items?
I tried asking the cashier if this store had updated its registers yet, but she didn’t know.
I may still be confused, but hey — I’ve got a lot of bacon now :)
grandma says
Totally forgot about the new Walgreens policy on register rewards when I used my $5RR, from the crest,on bacon and Dr.Pepper. Non of which were over $5 each. The register took it with no problem.
Green Is Good says
Last week I bought 4 Pepsi for 2.50 each. Early in the week I used 3 $3 rr’s to pay. The rr’s beeped during this trip but the cashier pushed them through.
I did the same transaction later in the week and the rr’s went through fine on their own. I think it may have been a glitch in there system the first time because both of these were done at the same store.
pam and family says
From what I have read on other sites, and some store managers were reportedly told by corporate, the RRs being rejected by the computer thing was an IT error. The intent was to prevent overage on regular manufacturer coupons. Sounds like they didn’t take RRs into account.
Reportedly, the system has now been fixed.
SouthernReverie says
My RRs beeped at Wags a couple of weeks ago, but they’re working fine again now. I also read somewhere online that it was a programming error that they were going to fix. It looks like they are working correctly again. Yay!!! It would have been a real pain in the patootie if we had to be sure to buy an item over the RR amount! I’m going to think positively, and believe that this particular problem is behind us now.