Ad matching - Round 159 - Tips

Well, here it is, now there is a new policy at Walmart which has its advantages and disadvantages. They actually state in the new policy that it must be each for each and pound for pound matching on produce, etc.

Now, that being taken into consideration, Walmart is accepting competitor coupons that have a price included. For Arizonans, this means that the Fresh and Easy coupons can be used at Walmart. At least, this is what the clerk in Gilbert told me! I am very excited about that one.

Tip:

When you have a BOGO or Buy two get one - and the clerk needs to enter the cost, if that cost is around 4 dollars, the clerk will need to manually enter this as a vendor coupon.

Today, I went to Walmart to ad match Frys (Kroger) for Gillette and Secret products as that someone had already raided my Frys by 9am this morning. The coupons expired today so I could not play the "raincheck game".

Just as an FYI, there is some confusion about the "clarification" of the raincheck policy on Fry's Facebook page. According to the employee, only items in the ad can get a raincheck and if there is a coupon for the item, you cannot get a raincheck. That seems a bit odd. Then, the person stated you can use coupons with a raincheck. It's all so not worth the trouble when you ad match at Walmart or Target.

So, I purchased the Secret deoderant and had coupons for:

$1/2 secret
Buy 2 secret - get free secret spray

$2 off Gillette.

Well, the Gillette was ad matched for 1.99 and the $2 off coupons scanned fine (4 of them).
The System did not like the Free secret spray coupon because the value was too high. So, the clerk entered these as Vendor coupon. Since this was entered as a vendor coupon, the $1/2 Secret coupons scanned without any issue.

4 Gillette Body Wash
4 Secret Deoderant
2 Secret spray

$3 and change.

Now, at the Frys earlier today, I purchased

4 Old Spice Body Wash
8 Old Spice deoderants

for $8

Frys also took the $1 off 2 and the Buy one Old spice body wash, get one deoderant free.

In the past, I have always had issues combining coupons. However, today was an odd day for combinations!