cvs-Tons of Clearance Moneymakers/Free Finds Today! october 13

[cheapcheap]

Wait, I just remembered why I can't get these same bargains by using Qs with clearance items. My store marks out the UCP so the cashier has to enter the amount as general merchandise. Plus, they look at me like "you've got to be kidding" when I give them a $1 Q for $.29 item! 90% off is pretty awesome, but my bargain instinct always tries to get it for free!! LOL!

[ladycat00]

Originally Posted by cheapcheap Wait, I just remembered why I can't get these same bargains by using Qs with clearance items. My store marks out the UCP so the cashier has to enter the amount as general merchandise. Plus, they look at me like "you've got to be kidding" when I give them a $1 Q for $.29 item! 90% off is pretty awesome, but my bargain instinct always tries to get it for free!! LOL!

My store pushes them through on the clearance items. They even let me have the overage (which applies to other merchandise in the same transaction. I can't get change back for coupons!).

They do check to make sure the coupon matches the item, which isn't a problem. I match them up carefully myself before I check out.

90% of the stuff I find on clearance isn't anything I want for myself. It's great stuff for donating. It's fun to get free stuff for donating. It's a win-win situation (for me and the shelters). I can't afford to buy it, and they need the stuff.

[BamaBunch7]

I have been refused on using my coupons for the cheap clearance items, most are black marked thru the UPC and have to be keyed in, a couple trips. When they do allow me to, they adjust them down to the item price. Which is fine to me. But, I feel I should be able to use them. They are coupons on the exact items. What is the rules for this situation?

[ladycat00]

Originally Posted by BamaBunch7 What is the rules for this situation?

There are no official rules anywhere that I'm aware of. As far as I know, it's strictly up to an individual manager whether they will take coupons for clearance items, and if they do, whether they adjust them down or not.

[Niddi]

I have shopped at stores that will not allow you to use a coupon on items marked through on the barcode. Most of the stores ring it up as a taxable item and adjust the coupon to the price of the product, have never gotten overage.
Today I was told by a cashier at my regular store that they can no longer accept coupons for their clearance items because the register beeps since it's put in as a taxable item and they have been instructed that if a coupon beeps they are not to accept it (she said that they have experienced a lot of coupon fraud). I'm going to talk to the store manager to get her take on this before I get upset. I get a LOT of items from clearance and it would be a pity to no longer be able to use coupons on them.
It seems to me that quite a few stores have gotten strickter on their policy because of coupon fraud. It's too bad that it's ruining it for those of us that use them correctly.

[cline19d2]

My store posted a sign saying per corporate they could not accept coupons on clearance items. I am a Business major with a minor in marketing so I sent an email to cs and asked them WHY? I told them that they put items on clearance to get rid of them and make room for other merchandise. They get re-imbursed for the coupon. I am more likely to purchase an item if I can use a coupon. From a marketing stand point it makes more sense to allow me to use the coupon and get rid of the merchandise than to leave it sitting on the shelf. The new GM of my store called and told me that I could use a coupon on anything I wanted as long it was for that item. I sweetly asked him "So you are going to take down that sign that says I can't use coupons on clearance items?" He said " yes ma'am, as soon as we hang up the phone." He also asked me to come to him if I have any problems/concerns in the future. He said he was going to have to have a meeting with the district manager and fill out five pages of paperwork due to my email so if I would please come to him in the future he would take care of any concerns I might have. As a pp said it might be YMMV but that email to cs lit a fire under the new gm at my store. I try not to complain very often but that made no sense to me from a business stand point.