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Reply With QuoteI have heard about them making changes and I just wonder if this was one of the changes that they made???Originally Posted by johnfdeluca
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GA Publix Stores and overage paying tax I live in GA and have (many times) been able to get my total so low, I owe only a couple cents....essentially paying the tax (or most of it) with coupon overages. Today, my pretax total was .97 and the POS system would not take my last dollar coupon. According to the cashier, the system told him it would cause a negative balance. The grand total was $1.75 before the last coupon but pre-tax was .97. So I'm wondering if Publix now requires customers to pay tax OOP (vs. using overage). This is how CVS and Wags are (tho not RiteAid). Anyone else notice a change since 1 Jan 2010?
Re: GA Publix Stores and overage paying tax I'm in AL but the only time I've ever been allowed to go negative was when I had a formula check. They've never allowed coupons to go into the tax. For example if my last coupon is .50/1 and the subtotal is .87 the double amount would only be .37
Re: GA Publix Stores and overage paying tax To clarify....my total was $1.75 (97 cents for product and 78 cents tax). The system would not take the $1.00 coupon. My experience has always been that is did (in the past) take the coupon...as it was not really going negative as I'd still owe 75 cents.
Re: GA Publix Stores and overage paying tax I am neither an accountant nor an expert, though following is my understanding about Publix system and Tax from reading the receipt. (I live in the east side of Atlanta.)
As you know different tax rate are applied for food items and non-food items, which I believe food items including coupon are indicated as “F”. Items, which food tax rate is applied, are indicated as “t” and items, which non-food tax rate is applied, are indicated as “T”. Note that some coupons have “t” or “T” sign on receipts but not all. Most of those are store coupons and multiplied coupons. (As far as I know all) MQs do not have “t” nor “T”, which means that tax applied without it. Tax are calculated for sum of “t”’s and “T”’s. (Remember that coupons are negative price.) I do not believe coupon’s values are cross-referenced with item’s price. Although sum of “t”’s or “T”’s cannot be negative and it is nothing to with accepting or rejecting overage. (You cannot have negative tax by obtaining the products.)
Last month, those “$1 off under $19.99 toy” in winter saving store coupons showed up with “t” (I believe by error) caused me a little trouble without having any food items.
I assume that the last coupon you had trouble with may be a store coupon and it may cause negative sum of “t”s. Check your receipt and sum of “t’”s.
I hope this helps.
Re: GA Publix Stores and overage paying tax My stores here in Tampa won't let me go below the tax amount. I've always had to either take back the coupon or add on something small for the difference, usually one of those 3/$1.00 chips or cookies. They have been this way for me since I've been couponing @ Publix. I plan for it on my spreadsheet by having a column indicating taxable items and amount.
Re: GA Publix Stores and overage paying tax The register has always beeped for me when I go below subtotal and required override at Publix. Since not too many items I purchase at Publix are taxed in FL this rarely happens since I aim to be above zero.
Btw, you can dip into your tax at CVS. Just hand your ECB's before MQ's. One of the many things I love about CVS!
Re: GA Publix Stores and overage paying tax Here in TN, they always beep when you go into tax, but with an override it is fine. I have started just "buying" a gift card each time I go to prevent having to get the override- saves time. (buy a $20 gift card each time, pay with the gc from the previous trip). Plus, if I do go negative, the gift card eats the difference, so it's no big deal. It has saved me a lot of time doing exact math- and my kids have a nice collection of used cards to play with. lol.
