Acme changing their coupon policy?????

[Siageah]

Not really on topic, but not worthy of it's own thread......

My acme just started the whole tape/paper over the slot at sco. Noticed it today. I know I'm partly to blame but I don't do anything illegal or not specified.

The Acmes around here that do that (about half) have it more because coupons don't scan at SCO and it becomes a royal pain in the buttocks to tell everyone to cover the second barcode. In a couple of stores around here I just tell them I know how to scan them if they want to just push them through at their stand. Most of the time they gratefully agree.

Then there is the store that doesn't have the slot covered but once they see a coupon they come a runnin' to check them out. I guess they are bored or something.

[~~Who,Me?~~]

I've never had a problem with a coupon not scanning at sco. But lately with all the deals, I've been doing lots of back to back transactions and my final totals are frequently less than $1. So of course they have to override that. I think it has more to do with your latter scenario.

[JoanieS]

Thanks for checking this out Kristy! I was afraid I was going to have to change the entire "Acme" portion of the coupon class I am teaching next month - LOL!

Hmmmmm....can't wait to go through Connie's line this week :)

[dominicsmommy]

I've never had a problem with a coupon not scanning at sco. But lately with all the deals, I've been doing lots of back to back transactions and my final totals are frequently less than $1. So of course they have to override that. I think it has more to do with your latter scenario.

Hi!!
Not sure which store you are talking about here but the one in Mantua NJ just covered up their slots as well. When I innocently asked if it had to do with expired or what? I was told by a young guy in there that is often very helpful and could care less about how many q's or transactions I do (love him BTW) that it had to do with a theft problem in that particular store. I woman was scanning and putting in a q that either didn't match and also had some how gotten an employees over ride # and was overriding q's by her self.
Anyway that was the story I got:)
HTH,
Kristy

[rcbrad]

I can't imagine somebody using an employee number and then going into the special screen to input it. Is somebody really that desperate? I would think that would not go unnoticed at the store. Somebody is really asking for trouble. This goes beyond using coupons for wrong sizes, flavor etc, which could be an honest mistake. Once again a bad apple(s) ruin for others.

On a happy note, I was pleasantly surprised yesterday that the one attendant at the SCO station who usually makes things harder than they have to be and seems to over scrutinize coupons and what you are doing was very accommodating while I did 4 "soup" transactions yesterday. He's not too bad, but just enough to be a nuisance. Since the new coupons printed each time for the soup, I could go back and use them over and over along with the $5.00 catalina. He laughed when I said I could do this all day and when do I stop? He said that I can come back later in the week, as the sale lasts until Thur. I was surprised at his turnaround! It was very nice.

[pookie111]

Hi!!
Not sure which store you are talking about here but the one in Mantua NJ just covered up their slots as well. When I innocently asked if it had to do with expired or what? I was told by a young guy in there that is often very helpful and could care less about how many q's or transactions I do (love him BTW) that it had to do with a theft problem in that particular store. I woman was scanning and putting in a q that either didn't match and also had some how gotten an employees over ride # and was overriding q's by her self.
Anyway that was the story I got:)
HTH,
Kristy

That is crazy! we covered ours becouse people were using expired and the old scan one coupon put in another one trick. Some people must be desperate to steal an overdide # though.

[fayegreg]

The manager Mantua told me the same story. There were 2 ladies working together and they had a coupon for a free product and deducted their whole shopping order of $24.50. No one knows how they got an override code. When they left the store, management stopped them in the parking lot and told them they had to re-ring all their groceries because there was some mistake. The women did end up paying. I would have called the police.

[pookie111]

The manager Mantua told me the same story. There were 2 ladies working together and they had a coupon for a free product and deducted their whole shopping order of $24.50. No one knows how they got an override code. When they left the store, management stopped them in the parking lot and told them they had to re-ring all their groceries because there was some mistake. The women did end up paying. I would have called the police.

All I can say is WOW! People like that are going to screw it up for us legit couponers!

[BusterBrown]

our acme has theirs covered, as does the shoprite i work for-many problems with the coupons being expired, dates cut off(which we do not get paid for those coupons) same family group, but not right items....our s/c people are supposed to check every coupon before taking them....and since they turn them in at the end of their shift, and get written up if expired etc, they really seem to be checking...

[~~Who,Me?~~]

our acme has theirs covered, as does the shoprite i work for-many problems with the coupons being expired, dates cut off(which we do not get paid for those coupons) same family group, but not right items....our s/c people are supposed to check every coupon before taking them....and since they turn them in at the end of their shift, and get written up if expired etc, they really seem to be checking...

I guess I don't get that.........if I try to submit any of those types of coupons (by accident of course) they always beep.:shrug7: