Walk with Me At Walgreens as I Spend $5.14 on Everything You See Below
I did three transactions this week at Walgreens.
Transaction 1
Buy 1 ThermaCare 1 pack $2.49
Buy 1 South Beach Snack Bars 5 pack $5.99
Buy 2 Blistex Cold and Allergy $2.59 (B1G1 Free)
I LOVED these when I tried them last week! My allergies are going nuts, and these are WONDERFUL!
Pay $11.07 OOP
Receive $2.50 RR and a $6 RR
Final Price: $2.57
ALSO received a coupon for a FREE Breathe Right 10-12 count box!
Transaction 2
Buy 1 ThermaCare 1 pack $2.49
Buy 1 South Beach Meal Bars 5 pack $5.99
Buy 2 Blistex Cold and Allergy $2.59 (B1G1 Free)
Pay $11.07 OOP
Receive $2.50 RR and a $6 RR
Final Price: $2.57
Did not get a coupon for another free package of Breathe Right. 
Bummer! That means there’s no rhyme or reason to it. I heard reports about it printing last week with some purchases of Tylenol, but I didn’t get one. Have you purchased anything that made the coupon print out?
Transaction 3
Breathe Right Strips 12 ct. $6.29
Used coupon from Transaction 1
Pay $0 OOP!
Final price: FREE!
Total OOP: $22.14
Total Saved: $11.47
Still Have: $17 in RR
Final Price: $5.14
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Just wondering…. why didn’t you use the Register Rewards to help pay for your next transactions? As in, use RR from transaction 1 to help pay for transaction 2… & so on. (maybe I’m thinking of RiteAid’s +UP rewards)
That’s a great question! The reason is that Walgreens (unlike Rite Aid) will not let you use your RR on an item in the same promotion, and get another one.
So, I could have broken them up to have a lower OOP, but the Walgreens near me limits it to 3 RR transactions per person, so I didn’t want to deal with it. To Lower it it could have looked like this:
Transaction 1
Buy 1 South Beach Snack Bars 5 pack $5.99
Pay $5.99 OPP
Receive $6 RR
Final price: $.01 MM!
Transaction 2
Buy 1 ThermaCare 1 pack $2.49
And Buy 2 Blistex Cold and Allergy $2.59 (B1G1 Free)
Buy $.92+ Filler
Use $6 RR from T1
Pay: ??
Receive $2.50 RR
It would have been more complicated, more fillers, and I would have gone above the 3 transaction limit (and since it wasn’t the cashier I usually go to who lets me do 4, I didn’t want to push it).
Does that make sense? Basically, you can’t use a South Beach RR to purchase South Beach. You can’t use a Thermacare RR to purchase Thermacare, or you won’t get the 2nd one.
I think the extra coupons printing are printing like every 5 transactions, I got a coupon last week on the powerbars for $2/10 powerbars, I rec’d it twice, and once from another store, That is my guess
I got a random Breath Rite strip at Freddy’s last week with just food purchases…then used it a few days later. It’s a great CAT, but no reasoning behind it. LOL
I got a breath rite coupon for buying a cup of coffee. so no reasoning.