A great way to shop at Walgreens and save a ton of money is through their Register Rewards program.
Register Rewards (RR) are Catalina coupons worth a certain dollar amount that you can use to help pay for another purchase. They print at the register when you buy certain items. The weekly Walgreens ad will feature specific items that produce Register Rewards. Many times these items are a great deal and if you have a coupon for the item you can often get products for FREE or BETTER THAN FREE (after Register Rewards)!
For example, the weekly ad advertises Complete Multi-Purpose Contact Solution as "Free after Register Rewards". The sale price of this product is $7.99 and the ad states you will get a Register Reward in the amount of $7.99 when you purchase this item. There is a $2 coupon from an insert in Sunday's paper you can use towards the purchase of this product, making this scenario a money maker, because you leave the store with more money than when you came in!
There are 2 types of coupons that can be used at Walgreens:
1. Manufacturers coupons - These are regular coupons like you would get out of the Sunday paper.
2. Walgreens store coupons - These are coupons that can only be used at Walgreens. They can be found in the weekly ad, pamphlets and monthly coupon booklets (by the entrance), Walgreens Magazines, Walgreens Children Coloring books (by the pharmacy) or other places throughout the store.
You may use 1 store coupon and 1 manufacturer's coupon per item.
Register Rewards are considered a manufacturers coupon, and at Walgreens you can only use one manufacturer coupon per item purchased. You need to make sure that the number of items you are purchasing is equal to or greater than the number of coupons you are using, including any Register Rewards you plan to use. If you are using a coupon on every item that you are buying, and you want to use a RR, you need to add a small filler item (anything cheap) to your transaction in order to be able use your RR.
- ALWAYS give the manufacturer's coupon first, and then the store coupon. The reason: if the two coupons combined are worth more than the cost of the item, a manufacturer's coupon will beep if given last. Store coupons will go through just fine if given last, and in some instances giving you overage toward the rest of your purchase!
More About Register Rewards
- Only one Register Reward will print per offer per transaction. If you buy 2 different advertised deals, both Register Rewards will print, but you cannot purchase 2 of the same deal in one transaction. For example, if Huggies Diapers are advertised as giving back $3 in RR, and Tylenol is advertised as giving back $5 in RR, you can buy both products at the same time and get back a $3 and a $5 RR. You cannot buy 2 Tylenol in the same transaction and expect to get back (2) $5 RR. If you wanted to buy more Tylenol and receive a RR, you would have to buy them in separate transactions.
- You can use Register Rewards to pay for any of your purchases. However, Register Rewards can not always be "rolled" (using Register Rewards to pay for something else that gives back Register Rewards.) You cannot use a Register Reward from one product to pay for another of the same product. The new Register Rewards will not print. Also, you generally cannot roll Register Rewards between two products that are the same brand. For example, if you had Register Rewards that printed from buying Aussie Hair Products, you could not use them to buy Pamper, another RR will not print because they are made by the same parent company, Proctor & Gamble.
- If a deal is advertised like this "Buy $20 worth of select products, get $10 Register Rewards", the value of what you are buying is computed before coupons. Example: "Buy $20 of Dove products, get $10 RR." If the Dove products are $2 each , you could buy 10 items for $20, use (10) $1/1 coupons, and pay a total of $10. You would still get the $10 RR because your product total came above $20!
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