Walgreens $1.25/3 q counts as 3 q's?

[savedsol]

I went to Walgreens on Sunday to get:

3 Ragu
3 Skippy
2 Hellmans

I had:
(3) .40/1 skippy
1.25/3 Ragu
1.00/2 Hellmans
1.00 RR
3.00 RR
6.00 RR

I had 8 items and 8 coupons. I didn't think I would have a problem. She did the q's in that order but the cashier stopped after the 1.00 RR. She said that was all I could use and that the 1.25/3 counted as 3 q's. I had her give me back that q and use the RR. I ended up paying 2.95 with tax and got back 8.00 in RR. My question is this a YMMV? Or is this one of the unwritten rules? I new to this, but I have used the Hunts tomato sauce Walgreens q that was .39/1 limit 4. I bought two using this coupon as filler and it counted as one q.

[JulieNJavyNavy]

no, the 1.25/3 is only 1 coupon. She was mistaken. No where, no how is that 3 coupons.

[chitownmelli]

No, it counts as one coupon. I believe she should have let you use it and the RR since you had 8 items and 8 q's.

[flemishe]

She was sadly mistaken. That would mean your 1.00/2 would count for 2 Qs as well, meaning you shouldn't have been able to use the 1.00 RR either if that were the case.

[44saving]

Sometimes a $x/y items coupon attaches to one item and sometimes it attaches to y items. You don't know until you try it (or you look up the code). In this case it looks like the cashier didn't even try?

[MCLindsay]

I had a similar thing happen to me on that deal. I bought 8 ragu and used 4 $1/2 coupons and 3 separate RRs. I even made sure the RRs were all different amounts and all different makers. I was thinking I had 8 items and 7 coupons so I was good to go. She scanned my q's just fine but then it beeped when they scanned the first RR. Luckily, no one was in line so I ran over to the Halloween isle and grabbed 4 of the .17 Halloween cups. I only needed three, but there's just something about an even number :) Once she scanned the cups (and the in-ad q) it took my RRs with no problem. So my q's definitely attached to both items. It sure does add one more element of complication to the already-complicated beast of Wags Shopping!

[savedsol]

Sometimes a $x/y items coupon attaches to one item and sometimes it attaches to y items. You don't know until you try it (or you look up the code). In this case it looks like the cashier didn't even try?

Thanks for your responses
I was just reading the "have a Walgreens question" thread, and saw some others had similar issues. The cashiers didn't try and I didn't argue. If I was thinking I would have let her keep the Ragu q, and had her give me back two Skippy q's. I could use more Skippy. Or if my little girl wasn't whining and there wasn't three people in line behind me, I would have grabbed a couple of fillers. :wink7:

[greenfrog57]

Same thing happened to me with the 60¢/2 ragu coupons I had -- so I added 2 boxes of the clearance cookies which were right near the photo counter where I was making my purchase.

[Nutts4Coops]

I bought 8 items, had 8 coupons/RRs and the last RR wouldnt go through. Cashier said I needed one more item. I had 5 items with a coupon or RR for each, 2 cans of soup with a $1/2 coupon and a free pack of batteries, so I dont know which item caused the issue. Either the soup coupon attached to both cans or the free batteries wouldnt allow an RR to attach to it.

[tcooper81]

I had this issue with trying to buy 9 skippy's (w/4 $1/2 Q's and 1 $.40/1 Q) and use RR's. I wasn't able to use 3 of my $1 Cadbury RR's, they beeped. I honestly can't complain about it because Walgreens has been SO good to me this past month and my cashiers are almost always friendly and helpful. My OOP for that transaction was $4.xx so I'm OK with that (also got the Vaseline and Chapstick monthly RR promos and 1 Sunday paper for that amount). I meant to bring filler items to the checkout just in case I needed to ad them, but I forgot and I wasn't going to hold the line up. I was making 2 trips for Skippy to 2 different walgreens so I just chalked it up to lesson learned and added fillers at the 2nd Walgreens and had no problem using them all.

[Ggbwg]

I think something is up w/ this deal because last night i bought:
6 Ragu
2 Skippy Crunchy

Coupons I used:
(2) $.75/1 Skippy
(2) $.75/2 Ragu
(1) $.60/2 IP Ragu
-$5 RR from previous order last week

1 of my $.75 coupon had to be overide & $5 RR overide by manager only. He looked we both looked we could not figure out what was wrong. He was nice about it thankfully.

[lookin4savings]

Yep, I have had a $1/2 coupon attach to two products also. And other times a $1/2 coupon will only attach to one. It's obviously something in the coding of the coupon. So now when I use a coupon like that I have to have fillers at the ready. It's another thing for us to stay on top of.

[MrsAlias]

I did the Ragu deal this week and my 1.25/3 coupons attached to 3 items.. I needed extra fillers.

Strange.

[sarahinFL]

I had this issue in the past and was so frustrated last week that I asked the same question in the questions thread and was told about the $/2 attaching to 2 items. Well I read on another site that if you use all $/multiple item q's LAST you wont need extra fillers. Well I tried it and it worked! Of course this is depending on whether your cashier will actually scan your q's in the order you hand them. I know some insist on scanning WAG's q's 1st & RR's last but I made sure to try this with a young male cashier :biggrin:. Here was my transaction:

7 Ragu
1 Skippy
-6 RR
-3 RR
-1 RR
-.40/1
-.60/2
-.60/2
-1.25/3

OOP .49

[miss_lacey]

I had this issue in the past and was so frustrated last week that I asked the same question in the questions thread and was told about the $/2 attaching to 2 items. Well I read on another site that if you use all $/multiple item q's LAST you wont need extra fillers. Well I tried it and it worked! Of course this is depending on whether your cashier will actually scan your q's in the order you hand them. I know some insist on scanning WAG's q's 1st & RR's last but I made sure to try this with a young male cashier :biggrin:. Here was my transaction:

7 Ragu
1 Skippy
-6 RR
-3 RR
-1 RR
-.40/1
-.60/2
-.60/2
-1.25/3

OOP .49

Did the coupon beep at all, or did it go through with no problems? I had similiar problems using the 1.00/2 campbells soup coupon and was planning on using my second soup as my filler for my RR and it wouldn't work until I got another filler.

[clippyclippy]

Earlier in the week I used 2 Quaker $1/2 Qs (cut out from the box) and 2 Campbells $1/2 Qs in my order. I also had 2 newspapers. (8 items)
I was only able to use 2 RRs, so obviously my coupons were coded to attach to 2 items each.

Then tonight I used the 1.25/2 Quaker insert Qs and it only counted as one coupon.

Go figure...

[miss_lacey]

Earlier in the week I used 2 Quaker $1/2 Qs (cut out from the box) and 2 Campbells $1/2 Qs in my order. I also had 2 newspapers. (8 items)
I was only able to use 2 RRs, so obviously my coupons were coded to attach to 2 items each.

Then tonight I used the 1.25/2 Quaker insert Qs and it only counted as one coupon.

Go figure...


I wish there was a way to know..

[sarahinFL]

Did the coupon beep at all, or did it go through with no problems? I had similiar problems using the 1.00/2 campbells soup coupon and was planning on using my second soup as my filler for my RR and it wouldn't work until I got another filler.

No beeps at all!! I was nervous and had fillers close by since the same thing happened to me with the soups the week before.

[Slk]

The $1.25/3 IS equal to 3 coupons because you need to buy 3 Ragu jars to be able to use the coupon. You all know better!

[tcooper81]

The $1.25/3 IS equal to 3 coupons because you need to buy 3 Ragu jars to be able to use the coupon. You all know better!

I have never had this problem on $/2 Q's until this past Sunday though. Previously, I could use $/2 Q's with 1 Q and 1 RR on the 2 products that the $/2 Q was for without beeps. Maybe Unilever codes their Q's differently? Or would that be a Walgreens thing, not the manufacturer, the way they're coded? The way I've understood it to be and the way it's been handled at my Walgreens in the past was that I have to have a physical number of products equal to or greater than the physical number of Q's I have, not necessarily how many products each Q pertains to. I think that's where the confusion is coming from.

[Ggbwg]

The $1.25/3 IS equal to 3 coupons because you need to buy 3 Ragu jars to be able to use the coupon. You all know better!

Here's the thing though i did not stack coupons like some are doing. In my post below you can see what i wrote i used and bought. I never stack a $/3 with a $/1 & etc.

[cbgo]

The $1.25/3 IS equal to 3 coupons because you need to buy 3 Ragu jars to be able to use the coupon. You all know better!

The RR states that you cannot have more coupons than items and she followed that rule. She bought 3 Ragu and only used one Ragu coupon, so she followed that rule.

However, the coupon attached to 3 items rather than one for RR purposes. I have had it happen both ways with different manufacturers, not just Unilever. It really depends on how the coupon is coded.

[BRG]

Sometimes a $x/y items coupon attaches to one item and sometimes it attaches to y items. You don't know until you try it (or you look up the code). In this case it looks like the cashier didn't even try?

Wish I knew when and how these $/xx coupons count as one and when they don't. In my WAGS, she would have had eight coupons and would not have been allowed to use any RR at all. I just don't understand this part.

Perhaps this is why the cashiers are instructed to not take the RRs before the coupons. Maybe it has something to do with how coupons attach to their products??? I'm confused, too.

[GAchapis]

This happened to me w/the Glade deal a couple weeks back - the Fragrance Collection Soy Candle coupon $ 3.00 off 2 attached itself to both items - I was not able to use a RR on my transaction. On my next order I was sure to grab a filler. It does depend on how your coupon is coded.

[clippyclippy]

What happens when you hand over the RRs first?

[mama2kangaandroo]

Same thing happened to me with the 2 ragu deals I did. I had 75/2 Qs and they counted as "2" Qs, so I had to add fillers to make it work. Annoying, but still a great deal on ragu, so I did it anyway.

[savewildlife]

I have had this problem for the last at least two weeks. I have to have an item for every single q in my hand including the register reward or I get beeped at the register. I too have been lucky to be able to run over to the candy isle and grad something else when I have miscalculated. For the amount I end up paying though it still comes out pretty cheap when you think what your saving. Walgreens has just figured out a way to push the other merchandise especially the clearance things which went really fast in my area. As, long as I can keep coming out ahead it works for me, but does stink that I have to cruise around for those bargain items that don't involve wags coupons.

[CpnAholic]

This happened to me as well but it was with the $1/2 Trident layers coupon.

[Ggbwg]

Wish I knew when and how these $/xx coupons count as one and when they don't. In my WAGS, she would have had eight coupons and would not have been allowed to use any RR at all. I just don't understand this part.

Perhaps this is why the cashiers are instructed to not take the RRs before the coupons. Maybe it has something to do with how coupons attach to their products??? I'm confused, too.

Totally off topic here but your husband looks like Nell to me from the show Alice years ago.

[Joyfulmom4]

My local Walgreens stores both count any coupon applying to multiple items as multiple coupons; as in $1 off 3 items is counted as 3 coupons. Sucks, but I have gotten used to it. It means I buy more little piddly filler items.

[toaster]

It has always worked that way, unless it is a bogof q. It attaches itself to one item, the one you are buying, so the other item works as a filler. If you can throw your rr's first, for some reason I learned it will take the coupons as 1 each, not as (2 or 3). I always take a couple extra items just in case, easy to put back if I don't need them. Or like the jello, one store had it clearance for .20 and had $1.25 on three, so use 4 q total $5.00, buy 25 jello, coupons used 12(3 x 4) so lots of filler. Just have to buy something expensive, or use $1rr's.

[joshmamabear]

I have done trial and error but the one that has always worked for me is give RRs first, followed by MQs off of 1 and the ones off of 2 or more, I ALWAYS give last. That way, it attaches to just one item instead of multiple items if I give before or right after RRs. The last time I tested this was with the $3/2 Theraflu combined with $1.50/1. I gave all my other coupons first and the $3/2 MQ was the last one, it was counted as one and all my other coupons went through w/o beeping. The IVCs also scanned w/o a problem.

Just in case, I always have back-up fillers handy so I don't grab just about anything at the register. I plan ahead just in case I need to have fillers but if I don't need any, then I just return them to shelf.