Lowes Foods coupon policy 5/2012

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Coupon Policy
· We recognize that our customers are looking for more ways to save their hard-earned dollars and using coupons is one of the best ways to save additional money. To allow all of our customers to enjoy these additional savings, our prevailing guideline is that Lowes Foods reserves the right to limit quantities in coupon usage and product purchases. A Spanish version of our Coupon policy is available here.
Manufacturer Coupon Policy
· Lowes Foods welcomes legitimate manufacturer coupons when the following requirements are met:

• Coupons must be in date.
• Coupons must match the item(s) purchased.
• Coupons must be presented at the time of purchase.
• To ensure product availability for all customers, we limit redemption to 4 like coupons. For example, if you have five of the same coupons and have purchased five items, we will accept four of the coupons.
• All sales taxes are paid by the customer at the full retail value of the item.
• Coupon value cannot exceed our retail price of the item; no cash back will be awarded.

Double Coupons

• Same as above plus:
• We will double up to 20 manufacturer coupons with a face value of $0.99 or less per day.
• No minimum purchase is required.
• Manufacturer coupons for FREE items or Buy One, Get One FREE items will not be doubled.
• Any manufacturer coupon that states -Do not double- will not be doubled.
• A doubled coupon will not be honored if the doubled amount exceeds the retail or sale price of the coupon item. No cash back will be awarded.

Other Coupon Promotions

• From time to time, our manufacturer coupon promotions will be enhanced. For example, we may offer our customers the opportunity to triple their coupons. Special promotional opportunities will be featured in our circular or on-line.

Super Double Coupons
Lowes Foods welcomes legitimate manufacturer coupons when the following requirements are met.

• Same as above plus:
• Coupons must be in date.
• Coupons must match the item(s) purchased.
• Coupons must be presented at the time of purchase.
• We will double up to 20 manufacturer coupons with a face value of $1.98 or less per day, with total amount not to exceed $3.96 or entire retail of item; whichever is less.
• To ensure product availability for all customers, we will double up to three identical items with manufacturer coupon; additional coupons for like item will be honored at face value. Like items include all flavors.
• All sales taxes are paid by the customer at the full retail value of the item.
• Coupon value cannot exceed our retail price of the item; no cash back will be awarded.
• No orders may be separated that would allow the 20 coupon limit or any other coupon limits to be exceeded.
• No competitor coupons will be doubled or tripled.
• Coupons that state “do not double” will not be doubled.
• Store coupons can be accepted along with paper coupons, however will not be doubled.
• No rainchecks will be given on out-of-stock items for super double coupons. Rainchecks for sale items will still be provided as usual.

Internet Coupons
We gladly accept legitimate internet coupons. However, there has been a growing number of fraudulent internet coupons in the marketplace. We are committed to protecting our customers, manufacturers and our company against this illegal activity. Therefore, Lowes Foods will practice the following guidelines for internet coupons:

• We will only accept printable internet coupons if they scan at checkout.
• We will not honor FREE Product coupons printed from the Internet.
• We will accept Buy One Get One FREE and other values that have a purchase requirement.
• We will accept internet coupons that have an expiration date. If no expiration date is visible, we cannot accept the coupon.
• Coupons will be rejected if they are distorted, altered or obvious duplicates. Coupons are non-transferrable, meaning they should not be photocopied or scanned and distributed to others.
• Coupons have unique serial numbers printed on them and follow industry-standard format. Any presented coupon that does not follow standard format will not be accepted.
• With the purchase of two like manufacturer’s products, we accept two internet coupons per day.

If you have any questions on the standard format of internet coupons, you can verify at www.printcoupons.com
Print at Home Coupons

• We accept all Print at Home coupons from coupons.com as long as they are in date, unaltered, and are not copies. There is a limit of one coupon per purchase unless otherwise stated.

Store Coupons

• In order to redeem store coupons, a Lowes Foods rewards card must be used.
• Store coupons must be in date.
• All limits and purchase requirements must be followed.

Competitor’s Coupons

• We gladly accept local supermarket or supercenter competitor’s circular coupons or direct mail coupons for dollars off the entire order. (examples include Food Lion, Harris Teeter, Bi-Lo, Kroger, Super Target, Super K-Mart, Wal-mart)
• We will not accept any competitor coupons for specific items. For example, we will not accept a competitor’s coupon for $1.00 off of an individual item.
• Purchase requirements must be met.
• Coupon must be in-date.
• We will not accept any type of internet coupons from any other retailers.
• We will not accept any type of competitor coupons from drug stores or club stores.
• We will accept Catalina Check-out Manufacturer coupons from competitors as long as they are in date, all purchase requirements are met, and they scan.

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Also I see there is no more Insta-Save, but Digital coupons...
Rules state-
Limit of one coupon per item. Digital coupons and paper coupons may not be combined on the purchase of a single item.

They also have a printable source using coupons.com-same coupons as coupons.com and you can only print them from one or the other not both.

Lowes Foods now does Cellfire too. Link Here This is a separate site not Lowes Foods, but the coupons load onto your card just like the digital coupons. There are also different coupons on both sites-and some coupons are on both sites you can load them both I would assume. Cellfire does a lot of General Mills items.

[tiflynch]

Hi!!! Do the coupons you add electronically to your rewards card double? Sorry if this is a silly question but I've been out of the coupon loop for a while now. Thanks!!!

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I don't think they double...I am looking at my receipt, I can't even see where the $.50/1 coupon for the McCormick i put on there came off. Well, I used $.75/1 coupons on the McCormick so I guess that is why it didn't come off.

[clippyclippy]

I don't think they double...I am looking at my receipt, I can't even see where the $.50/1 coupon for the McCormick i put on there came off. Well, I used $.75/1 coupons on the McCormick so I guess that is why it didn't come off.

wait...you loaded a McCormick coupon on your card???
I haven't seen that one! I've never seen a McCormick on Cellfire as a matter of fact! Just GM junk.

And also, if LF has managed to work their registers to not accept both paper and digital, they'll be the only store I know that does that. Usually not accepting both becomes a cashier enforced policy.

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Digital is not Cellfire, that is something different.

WHY CAN'T I PASTE!!!!
lowesfoods.com/index.cfm/specialoffers/coupons/

had to type that out...
anyway, you have to sign up AGAIN and put in your card and all that...it is not cellfire. Cellfire is only at cellfire...Not that LF says anything about cellfire on their website that I have seen. There are over 40 coupons at LF in the digital section.

[tiflynch]

Thanks Uummm I'm going to load the digital q's tomorrow and see what happens at the store

[clippyclippy]

I updated the policy. No notable changes other than the addition of a section on Super Double coupons - good news in that adding it must mean they must anticipate more of these events.