Meijer-Free Kraft Salad dressing...

[amyjude]

Originally Posted by lbrown1618 I've only used MBQ a few times, but each one has required cashier intervention. I figured it was just normal. None of the ones I used were overage so that wasn;t it.

Hi there :) I did self-checkout yesterday (probably my mistake!). The attendant had to come over for the Kraft Salad Dressing and she said none of them would work and handed them back to me. I asked her why and she said that I would be getting them free and they had just had a meeting with their store manager (Meijer on Harrison) and he said QUOTE "We are NOT in the business of giving things away for free - we are in the business of selling." and that they were not supposed to honor the coupons if we were getting items for free. I asked her to get a manager, which she did. After a bit of discussion between the two (of course, he never talked to me directly), he manually entered the coupons and I got my stuff for free.

Not an issue if the price is lowered to $1.58 as it is in other Meijers. But, we'll see! Headed out again today :)

[iamloved22]

My most frustrating Meijer trip - EVER!
I bought - 12 Kraft Dressing
Used 12 $1.50 off mfc
AND 12 $1.00 off MBQ
(I bought a whole slew of other items as well)
Wanted to use the Buy 2 Kraft Dressings get $1.00 off produce coupon and was told NO that I was trying to use 3 manufacturer coupons on 1 item, I explained that one coupon was a mfc, one was a STORE coupon, and the other was not off the dressing but off produce. I was still told NO, went to Customer Service and waited 30 MINUTES in line to be told "oh yea they called us about you we are not taking those coupons - you can't do that" (ugh they couldn't have pulled me aside and told me that rather than making me wait for half an hour in line?!). I tried explaining my point about the difference in the coupons and was still told I was trying to use multiple coupons for the same items and you can't do that. I was also buying beef to go along with the A1 coupons I had ($2.00 off A1 mfc, $1.00/2 A1 MBC - then a seperate $1.00 off beef wyb A1) - they wouldn't let me use those either again saying I was trying to triple dip manufacturers coupons on the same item. (I made her return the meat at that point).

I have not only done this many times before with the dressing & produce at other stores but several times right at the same Meijer without a problem.

Was I just "getting away" with using these together in the past? Or am I right in my thinking? I just wanted some confirmation before I contact HQ on this one - the cashier & CS were both rude & rushed being very short staffed, and waiting the additional 30 minutes really screwed up the rest of my day so I'm a bit about the whole thing! I've dropped close to $300 in the last few weeks at that store and it's the main grocery store I frequent, I've had problems there in the past with one cashier giving me crap but I just avoid her now.

[justmeagain]

Same thing here........I was SO SO SO SO hoping for the overage on the salad dressing but the cashier came over to the u-scan and price modified everything......and then they threw a big fit about the produce coupons........ended up getting the produce but not without a big struggle

[SavinginOhio]

I had a similar situation last night. I bought (among other things) 2 A1, used a MB for $1/2 and two of the $2/1 MQ's. I also had two of the $1 off beef with A1 purchase. The register said "too many coupons" and it had to be manually overrided.

The cashier at first tried to tell me I had to buy 4 A1, but I eventually convinced her that was not true by showing her the specific coupon language. Maybe it was because I nicely suggested I could just take then to customer service after she had checked me out and see what they said about it?

Not an easy transaction though!

[iamloved22]

I did get overage on the MB Q's - Now that I'm more calm I think I'm going to go ahead and contact HQ just because of the treatment I recieved. It afterall wasn't really about the coupons or the $$ but the treatment I recieved that made me so mad, I'm very tired of being treated poorly at that store when i spend so much $$ there.

[buggs1]

Originally Posted by amyjude Hi there :) I did self-checkout yesterday (probably my mistake!). The attendant had to come over for the Kraft Salad Dressing and she said none of them would work and handed them back to me. I asked her why and she said that I would be getting them free and they had just had a meeting with their store manager (Meijer on Harrison) and he said QUOTE "We are NOT in the business of giving things away for free - we are in the business of selling." and that they were not supposed to honor the coupons if we were getting items for free.

Just curious...was it Mealbox coupons that they said they wouldn't honor if you were getting it for free? If they refuse to honor their own coup, wouldn't that be a situation involving false advertising?

And what about other MFG coups that make an item free? It's not like accepting those type of coupons hasn't already set a precedence for customers to get an item free. Seems like a big inconsistency there.