Dillons: Funky doubling

[MelInKansas]

So this morning I went to Dillons and experienced what I think Rachelle was describing too - funky doubling in overage situations. Mine was, 5 Mentos candy for $0.99 each, using the $0.50/1 Mentos Item coupon. 4 of the coupons doubled fine, to $1 (it showed $0.50 MQ and $0.50 double), the last one had $0.50 MQ and $0.45 double. Weird. But for 5, that means they doubled to exactly the cost of the items.

Just a heads-up. I don't know if Dillons has changed their policy, or just reprogrammed their software (obviously they've changed the software) to try and eliminate overage.

[CouponQueen83]

Idk how its been done there, but at Kroger, they have always only doubled up to the cost of the item.so if it is 0.99 then a 0.50 would "double" at 0.49.
Sucks if they changed it for y'all!

[Tracy_in_Missouri]

I think I need to take away one of your reps for that crappy news !!! Booooooooo

[brownie16]

That's not new news to me. Any time I have a manu coupon for an item that's under $1, it only doubles up to the price of the item. That's how it's been for my transactions as long as I can remember.

[MelInKansas]

Really? Maybe it's the mega-event that gives the overage then? Like back on Bumble Bee Tuna - the price was $0.99. Would it have said $0.55 MC and $0.44 SC? Mine has always doubled to $1, regardless of the price. But I should say that USUALLY when I'm doubling a coupon and there's overage it's also been a mega-event.

And it's weird to me that 4 of them were $0.50 doubling and then the 5th one $0.45. I won't complain, the $0.05 isn't that big a deal to me. Just weird, it wasn't like that before, at least not here.

[eisforpants]

Mine did that on the vitimin water. I purchased 10, used 5 55 cent coupons and the last one didn't double all the way. Got all 10 free, but there was no overage. So I thought that was weird.

[brownie16]

Really? Maybe it's the mega-event that gives the overage then? Like back on Bumble Bee Tuna - the price was $0.99. Would it have said $0.55 MC and $0.44 SC? Mine has always doubled to $1, regardless of the price. But I should say that USUALLY when I'm doubling a coupon and there's overage it's also been a mega-event.

And it's weird to me that 4 of them were $0.50 doubling and then the 5th one $0.45. I won't complain, the $0.05 isn't that big a deal to me. Just weird, it wasn't like that before, at least not here.

Yes on the mega event. If the pre-mega price is $1.49 and after-mega is $.99, and you have a .50/1 q, you'll get -.50 and -.50. If it's a $.99 item pre-mega, you'll get -.50 and -.49. HTH.

[tpick]

I noticed it adjusted a few weeks ago when we first started discussing this on here, but this week, they all doubled regularly and I did get overage on some. Weird, but I don't have the time or energy to figure it out. I am fine with getting the free items and its okay if I don't get the overage.

I just want to let all you gals know how much appreciate having people to discuss issues like this with who actually know what I'm talking about and having a place on here to go when I have questions.

[MelInKansas]

Yeah tpick I enjoy being able to discuss it on here too. I KNOW on Bumble Bee all my $0.55 coupons doubled up to $1 even though the price on the pouches was $0.99. Maybe that's these stores' register programming and they've "fixed" it. I know the other store here in town that doubles coupons has the policy and their registers *try* to double only to the cost of the item. I guess for doubling it's fine. This other store also says they adjust coupon values down to the price of the item, which I think is wrong unless they actually write the cost on there and only get that much back from the manufacturer.

Anyway...

[MelInKansas]

Yes, it has definitely changed, and now (probably because of the way it now does mega-deal taking $0.50 off each item), the qs are only doubling up to the value of the AFTER mega-deal price. Example: I have $0.25/1 Bumble Bee qs. I buy 4 tuna pouches and use them. The last q has $0.25 MQ and $0.21 SQ(double). Exactly the price AFTER mega-deal. ARGH!

My vitaminwater q didn't double at all, because it was for MORE than the cost after mega-deal.

I know it was not doing this before. They're definitely getting too smart on us.