A&P ~ bonus bucks - sale prices/regular prices?

[MisterBill]

I would agree that most of the time, the bonus bucks are based on shelf price. However, A&P management would argue that point and insist it is based on the sale price. I have found that some of the "newer" flavors or varieties are not always programmed to be part of the deal, thus creating a problem. If the shelves are stickered with the promotion information, which they don't seem to have been lately, I always go for the variety with the bonus bucks tag under it, trying to avoid getting burnt. I hope this helps.

The folks at A&P have done a really shoddy job of including all items recently. I tried 3 times to do the P&G deal last week with Vicks stuff and none of them worked. I called Catalina about two of them and in both cases the 6 ounce Vicks which was pictured in the ad was what wasn't coming up. (also a new variety of Dayquil which didn't even ring up on sale). Then on the 3rd one, I was careful and bought the plain variety Nyquil that was in the ad, and the variety of Crest toothpaste that was in the ad. The only complication was that the Crest was a special pack with a free small tube (and a different UPC). Guest what? It still did not print, presumably because someone had forgotten toinclude the special toothpaste (although it rang up on sale). Fortunately in two of the cases the store took care of me and gave me the $7. The third store had an obnoxious manager who refused to do anything for me and insisted that it was because I had not spent $20 after the card prices. I finally called A&P corporate today and they told me that a) the store has to call in the receipt to them, not the customer, b) being pictured in the ad does not indicate that it is a qualifying item (fine print in ad), it has to have a shelf tag (but as you noted, in many cases they don't have those up, like in the case of the toothpaste which was on an endcap), c) the amount you spend had to be after the card (which we all know is not true) and d) the store is not supposed to do anything on their own to pay you, they need to call corporate. So I was basically told that there was nothing they were interested in doing for me (which was the same message I had gotten from the manager). I am going to have to avoid doing these deals at the store that refused to do anything for me, and/or not put my coupons in the slot until I see whether the Catalina prints so I can tell them to void the order and get my coupons back.

[mom_of_four]

Since A&P is no longer putting up the shelf tags indicating items included in a BB deal, we should have a thread that simply has a list of what works and what does not for each future deal. This way we could all learn from each others success and failures. What do you think?

[savinmaven]

Sounds like a plan.

[MisterBill]

Since A&P is no longer putting up the shelf tags indicating items included in a BB deal, we should have a thread that simply has a list of what works and what does not for each future deal. This way we could all learn from each others success and failures. What do you think?

It sounds like a good idea, but there are so many variables (different varieties of different products) that I think it will be very difficult. And unless you call Catalina, you really don't know exactly what caused the problem, you can only guess.