Does your Publix make you use $/$$ coupons after all other coupons?

[chrisk8]

I'm asking because my store told me that I had to use my $/$$ coupon after all coupons yesterday. It was a Winn Dixie $10 off $50, and nowhere in the fine print did it have this stipulation. I had them get the manager and she agreed with me and put it in. However, she did say that corporate directives tell them to use the $/$$ coupons after all other coupons.

Normally I give them all of my coupons at the end of the order so that the total will be over $50 or $75 or whatever is on the $/$$ coupon, but lately some of the cashiers have been insisting on getting the coupons first and enter them as the order is rung up (thus making my total less than $50 by the end). Most of them are good about still entering the $/$$ coupon since I did spend the $50 before coupons but yesterday I guess I encountered one who just didn't want to let me use the $/$$ coupon:shrug7:

Since their competitor coupon policy is to attract shoppers who would otherwise be using the same coupon at another store this stipulation confuses me. If I can go to Winn Dixie and use the $/$$ coupon and then my other coupons, why would I go to Publix and end up losing out on the very same $/$$ coupon because my total isn't high enough after all other coupons? I think that they were just mistaken as I've never had this issue before, but I'm curious as to whether anyone else on here has ever run into this.

[wannabefree]

That is exactly what my very coupon friendly Pubs cashier told me also. Fortunately I was buying a lot of extra stuff anyway so it didn't matter. But usually it would. I find it disappointing as well.

[carisal]

sometimes yes, but mostly no. it really depends on the cashier.... I had a bunch of Bi-Lo 5/40's to use for awhile(they expired already but I used them all the time for a month or two...) and only once or twice did I get shot down (I hardly ever SPEND $40 after qs)

I would try explaining that to the store , coupons are like cash (manu qs, not competitor qs or $/$) so what I always did, is give store and competitor qs first, then the $/$, THEN manu qs. and I would make sure that the total after store/comp qs was higher than $40(or whatever the $/$ is off of) so then my argument would hold water. they get reimbursed for the manu qs (well not the doubled amount, but you get my point... right?)

the only time I remember being told NO and not winning I had a $200 total before qs and after qs before the $5//40 I only owed about $15.... LOL

[mommas2moody]

:O I had a cashier yesterday that wouldn't let me use the 5/25 Rite Aid coupon at all! I had never tried to use one before until then and I wasn't sure if I could or not. So when she said no, I just let it slide.

[rumrunnergirl]

The only $/$ I have seen have the wording on them that they are to be used after all other coupons. They must have changed it because I haven't seen any for awhile (Publix has taken over here and Albertsons, WD and Sweet Bays are almost non-existent now, so competitor coupons like that are rare).

Personally, though, I think it's dumb because why should coupon users be penalized? If the total is $50 in groceries, then the coupon should be good whether or not you have other coupons. $50 in groceries is $50 in groceries.

[sunshinesmom]

I had a cashier do this to me one time and I just said oh really, you always have before. She insisted she couldn't take it. I didn't want to argue with her so I walked over to CS right after, and politely asked them when their policy changed about taking competitor coupons? He said it hadn't and handed me the $5.00.

[carisal]

:O I had a cashier yesterday that wouldn't let me use the 5/25 Rite Aid coupon at all! I had never tried to use one before until then and I wasn't sure if I could or not. So when she said no, I just let it slide.

you are lucky if you get to use drug store qs at all... the publix here will take target I know, not sure about drug store qs. but back "home" the publix would only take other grocery store qs. no target. no drug store....

[saras4]

Does your Publix make you use $/$$ coupons after all other coupons?

Yes, its a rule at my local Publix... has been for a few months now. All the cashiers know about it and it is strictly enforced. I'm just glad they accept it at all right now because another Publix I frequent doesnt take them. So I havent complained, lol.

[chrisk8]

Yes, its a rule at my local Publix... has been for a few months now. All the cashiers know about it and it is strictly enforced. I'm just glad they accept it at all right now because another Publix I frequent doesnt take them. So I havent complained, lol.

Interesting! Maybe I've just been lucky before then. They've always gone by what the actual competitor coupon said, and Winn Dixie just says that that after-tax total has to be $50 (or $75), not that the total after coupons has to be that much. I hope that it was just a fluke and isn't a sign of things to come because I hardly ever spend $50 after coupons. I'd go use the coupon at Winn Dixie or just start shopping at BJs again before I'd do that.

[Links2me]

I hand it to them first, so it's used first. However, a year or so ago the Publix that I frequented at the time decided to use it last as their 'policy'. Eventually they stopped enforcing their 'policy', and everything went back to normal.

I don't shop at that store anymore, the CS manager likes to make up her own rules and aggravate coupon users. So after 4 years and several conversations with the store manager, I changed stores for good.