Rumor about registers being reprogrammed for coupons

[shashabell]

This will not be good if it's true. I went to Meijer and had a raincheck for 10 bottles of Sweet Baby Ray's marinade for 1.00 each and used 10 coupons for 1/1. The register beeped and would not let the cashier enter more than 5 coupons even with her trying to force them thru. So she called CS and they said to break the order up into 5 bottles. The register would only allow her to take 3 coupons. She could not even over-ride it to take them all. Another call was made. The manager said the register were just re-programmed a couple of days earlier and in her words she said, "It's thanks to the show Extreme Couponing." UGH!!!!!!!!
Here's what she said their new policy is:
From now on, you cannot use coupons to get items for free unless you are paying for other items that make up 60% of the total in that transaction.

[cheynesnana]

Hmm.. haven't heard anything about this.. but it's gonna suck if it's true!!

[MsCheep]

I had an experience this week too that made me wonder if something happened to their registers. I had 4 coupons for 10 items (9 ziploc and 1 skinny cow) and each coupon amount was just cents less than it should have been. I had (3) $2 off Ziploc that needed cashier intervention-cashier put in $2, but receipt shows 1.97. Also I had a free Skinny cow coupon, up to 5.49, cashier manually entered 4.99 (price of product I got) and my receipt shows up 4.91!

I had NOTHING (no mperks/mealbox) that could have interfered with it. 18 cents is not worth my time to go back, but Meijers needs to get their poop in a group and figure this out. So sick of the computer saying one thing, and the receipt showing another.

ETA-A few weeks ago I had a huge issue with several coupons not showing up on my receipt, and on Meijers end they were voided. They said they expected the registers to be "Fixed" by June 17. Maybe that's what's happening??

[lbrown1618]

Thats a giant pile of dog-doo if its true. What makes them think this is ok? Limit the # of coupons or something, but to say "you cannot use coupons to get items for free unless you are paying for other items that make up 60% of the total in that transaction." That is insane! And it makes NO sense.

[$Saving!]

Thats a giant pile of dog-doo if its true. What makes them think this is ok? Limit the # of coupons or something, but to say "you cannot use coupons to get items for free unless you are paying for other items that make up 60% of the total in that transaction." That is insane! And it makes NO sense.

I'm temporarily up in northern NY state and the Price Chopper coupon policy is similar. They double up to and including $1 face value coupons, however, when they start doubling coupons, your coupons STOP being doubled the minute it reduces the amount owed to the 50% level.

Crazy indeed

I'm just grateful I don't deal with this nonsense back home in NC! (at least not yet!)

[nbafamily]

This happened to me this morning in Indiana. I had the free m&ms wyb 2 rice krispies coupons. I bought 4 rice krispies and 2 m&ms. The cashier accepted the price of $2.50 for the m&ms; then I entered my mperks for $2 off the purchase. Register then reduced the M&Ms to $2.21 and $2.19. It was crazy! Not fun :(

[buggs1]

I had a big problem today with the cash register just voiding out all the coupons that had been entered (this happened at both the self checkout & a regular check out. This had actually happened to me before but that was a few months ago.

The error message said something about a 20 coupon limit had been reached, but I wasn't getting anything totally free and one of the transaction didn't even have 20 coupons.

I was taking the whole situation calmly in stride until the acting store manager said to me "That's what happens when you use so many coupons that you're getting things free."

I shot right back at him that the actual total was about $15 (I had about 16 or 17 items) and I didn't call that getting things for free! That did stop him in his tracks.

Now I'm going to go back tonight and total that transaction up again to see if that 60% of the total sale was exceeded by coupons. I know the exact spot that the register stopped accepting coups and voided them all out.

On another occasion:
I also heard a cashier tell a customer that gave her a coupon (to give to someone else that might need it) that she wasn't allowed to give coupons to customers!

[jennsvs]

I shop at the Greenwood and Southport, IN stores and there were issues today at both. I was doing the $5/5 for lunchmeat and A.1. I also had rainchecks for the Sweet Baby Ray's. The register was refusing every coupon after the first 3 were entered. The cashier entered them as Meijer coupons because she didn't know what to do. Nothing deleted off this time though. She didn't know of any new coupon policy, but that doesn't surprise me because hardly any cashiers know any coupon policy. I think that I am going to email Meijer about it and see what they say. Although, honestly, they probably won't email me back. They never do.

[kjo890]

That's lame. I hope that's not true. If they do that, I'll just shop somewhere else.

[cheynesnana]

[QUOTE=buggs1;2961654]I had a big problem today with the cash register just voiding out all the coupons that had been entered (this happened at both the self checkout & a regular check out. This had actually happened to me before but that was a few months ago.

The error message said something about a 20 coupon limit had been reached, but I wasn't getting anything totally free and one of the transaction didn't even have 20 coupons.

I was taking the whole situation calmly in stride until the acting store manager said to me "That's what happens when you use so many coupons that you're getting things free."

I shot right back at him that the actual total was about $15 (I had about 16 or 17 items) and I didn't call that getting things for free! That did stop him in his tracks.

Now I'm going to go back tonight and total that transaction up again to see if that 60% of the total sale was exceeded by coupons. I know the exact spot that the register stopped accepting coups and voided them all out.

On another occasion:
I also heard a cashier tell a customer that gave her a coupon (to give to someone else that might need it) that she wasn't allowed to give coupons to customers![/QUOTE]


Yep... they aren't allowed to keep any coupons for other customers...and if someone leaves a cat, even at Uscan... the cashier is to throw it away.