Walgreens $1.25/3 q counts as 3 q's?

[savedsol]

I went to Walgreens on Sunday to get:

3 Ragu
3 Skippy
2 Hellmans

I had:
(3) .40/1 skippy
1.25/3 Ragu
1.00/2 Hellmans
1.00 RR
3.00 RR
6.00 RR

I had 8 items and 8 coupons. I didn't think I would have a problem. She did the q's in that order but the cashier stopped after the 1.00 RR. She said that was all I could use and that the 1.25/3 counted as 3 q's. I had her give me back that q and use the RR. I ended up paying 2.95 with tax and got back 8.00 in RR. My question is this a YMMV? Or is this one of the unwritten rules? I new to this, but I have used the Hunts tomato sauce Walgreens q that was .39/1 limit 4. I bought two using this coupon as filler and it counted as one q.

[JulieNJavyNavy]

no, the 1.25/3 is only 1 coupon. She was mistaken. No where, no how is that 3 coupons.

[chitownmelli]

No, it counts as one coupon. I believe she should have let you use it and the RR since you had 8 items and 8 q's.

[flemishe]

She was sadly mistaken. That would mean your 1.00/2 would count for 2 Qs as well, meaning you shouldn't have been able to use the 1.00 RR either if that were the case.

[44saving]

Sometimes a $x/y items coupon attaches to one item and sometimes it attaches to y items. You don't know until you try it (or you look up the code). In this case it looks like the cashier didn't even try?

[MCLindsay]

I had a similar thing happen to me on that deal. I bought 8 ragu and used 4 $1/2 coupons and 3 separate RRs. I even made sure the RRs were all different amounts and all different makers. I was thinking I had 8 items and 7 coupons so I was good to go. She scanned my q's just fine but then it beeped when they scanned the first RR. Luckily, no one was in line so I ran over to the Halloween isle and grabbed 4 of the .17 Halloween cups. I only needed three, but there's just something about an even number :) Once she scanned the cups (and the in-ad q) it took my RRs with no problem. So my q's definitely attached to both items. It sure does add one more element of complication to the already-complicated beast of Wags Shopping!

[savedsol]

Originally Posted by 44saving Sometimes a $x/y items coupon attaches to one item and sometimes it attaches to y items. You don't know until you try it (or you look up the code). In this case it looks like the cashier didn't even try?

Thanks for your responses
I was just reading the "have a Walgreens question" thread, and saw some others had similar issues. The cashiers didn't try and I didn't argue. If I was thinking I would have let her keep the Ragu q, and had her give me back two Skippy q's. I could use more Skippy. Or if my little girl wasn't whining and there wasn't three people in line behind me, I would have grabbed a couple of fillers.

[greenfrog57]

Same thing happened to me with the 60¢/2 ragu coupons I had -- so I added 2 boxes of the clearance cookies which were right near the photo counter where I was making my purchase.

[Nutts4Coops]

I bought 8 items, had 8 coupons/RRs and the last RR wouldnt go through. Cashier said I needed one more item. I had 5 items with a coupon or RR for each, 2 cans of soup with a $1/2 coupon and a free pack of batteries, so I dont know which item caused the issue. Either the soup coupon attached to both cans or the free batteries wouldnt allow an RR to attach to it.

[tcooper81]

I had this issue with trying to buy 9 skippy's (w/4 $1/2 Q's and 1 $.40/1 Q) and use RR's. I wasn't able to use 3 of my $1 Cadbury RR's, they beeped. I honestly can't complain about it because Walgreens has been SO good to me this past month and my cashiers are almost always friendly and helpful. My OOP for that transaction was $4.xx so I'm OK with that (also got the Vaseline and Chapstick monthly RR promos and 1 Sunday paper for that amount). I meant to bring filler items to the checkout just in case I needed to ad them, but I forgot and I wasn't going to hold the line up. I was making 2 trips for Skippy to 2 different walgreens so I just chalked it up to lesson learned and added fillers at the 2nd Walgreens and had no problem using them all.