Walmarts Current Coupon Policy & Price Matching Policy 3/11/11

[CW&M Mom]

Okay my Walmart shopping friends..they've changed the Coupon Policy again.

If you would like to print it....go here: Walmartstores.com: Walmart Coupon Policy

This is what it states:
Walmart Coupon Policy


We gladly accept the following types of coupons*

• Print-at-home internet coupons
  
  • Must be legible
  • Must have "Manufacturer Coupon" printed on them
  • Must have a valid remit address for the manufacturer
  • Must have a valid expiration date
  • Must have a scannable bar code
  • Buy one, get one free (BOGO) coupons with a specified price
  • Are acceptable in black and white or color
  • May not be duplicated
  
  
• Manufacturers' coupons
  
  • For dollar/cents off
  • For free items (except those printed off the Internet)
  • Buy one, get one free (BOGO) coupons
  • Must have "Manufacturer Coupon" printed on them
  • Must have a valid remit address for the manufacturer
  • Must have a valid expiration date
  • Must have a scannable bar code
  • May not be duplicated
  
  
• Competitors' coupons
  
  • A specific item for a specified price, for example, $2.99
  • Buy one, get one free (BOGO) coupons for items with a specified price
  • Have a valid expiration date
  • Are acceptable in black and white
  
  
• Soft drink container caps
• Checkout coupons ("Catalinas")
  
  • Printed at our competitors' registers for dollar/cents off on a specific item
  • Must have "Manufacturer Coupon" with specific item requirements printed on them
  • Must have a valid remit address for the manufacturer
  • Must have a valid expiration date
  • Must have a scannable bar code
  • Are acceptable in black and white
  • May not be duplicated
  
  

We DO NOT accept the following coupons:

• Checkout coupons
  
  • Dollars/cents off the entire basket purchase
  • Percentage off the entire basket purchase
  
  
• Print-at-home Internet coupons that require no purchase
• Competitors' coupons
  
  • Dollars/cents off at a specific retailer
  • Percentage off
  • Buy one, get one free (BOGO) coupons without a specified price
  • Double- or triple-value coupons
  
  

*The following are guidelines and limitations:

• We only accepts coupons for merchandise that we sell.
• Coupons must be presented at the time of purchase.
• Only one coupon per item.
• Item purchased must be identical to the coupon (size, quantity, brand, flavor, color, etc).
• There is no limit on the number of coupons per transaction.
• Coupons must have an expiration date and be redeemed prior to expiration.
• If coupon value exceeds the price of the item, the excess may be given to the customer as cash or applied toward the basket purchase.
• SNAP items purchased in a SNAP transaction are ineligible for cash back.
• WIC items purchased in a WIC transaction are applied to the basket purchase and may not be eligible for cash back. Refer to state-specific WIC guidelines.
• Great Value, Marketside, Equate, Parents Choice, and World Table coupons have no cash value and are ineligible for cash back or application to the basket purchase.
• The system will prompt for supervisor verification for:
  
  • 40 coupons per transaction.
  • A coupon of $20 or greater on one item
  • $50 or more in coupons in one transaction
  
  

~*~Thank you to Foodie for giving us the new policy~*~

[CW&M Mom]

Walmarts Also tweaked there Price/Ad Matching Policy

If you would like to print it off...go here: Walmartstores.com: Our Ad Match Guarantee

This is what it states:

Our Ad Match Guarantee

We’re committed to providing low prices every day. On everything. So if you find a lower advertised price on an identical product, tell us and we’ll match it. Right at the register.
We gladly match the price in the following types of ads:*

• Buy one, get one free ads with a specified price
  
  • Example: Buy one for $2.49, get one free (BOGO)
  
  
• Competitors' ads that feature a specific item for a specified price at a specific retailer
  
  • Example: $2.99
  
  
• Preferred shopping card advertised prices for specific item
  
  • that are in a printed ad and require a competitor's shopping card for the discount to apply
  
  
• For fresh produce and meat items
  
  • when the price is offered in the same unit type (lb. for lb.; each for each)
  
  

*The following are guidelines and limitations:

• We will match any local competitor's advertised price.
• We do not require customers to have the ad with them to honor a competitor's ad.
• Items purchased must be identical to the ad (size, quantity, brand, flavor, color, etc.)

We DO NOT match the price in the following types of competitor ads:

• Items that require a separate purchase to get the ad price
  
  • example: "Buy [item A] to get [item B] for $C"
  
  
• Items with no actual price that require a purchase to get free product
  
  • example: "Buy both [items A & B] to get [item C] for free"
  
  
• Items that require a purchase to get a competitors' gift card
  
  • example: "Buy [item A] to get a $B gift card
  
  
• Buy one, get one free (BOGO) ads with no actual price given
• Going out of business or closeout prices
• Percentage off
  
  • example: "All mascara, 40% off"
  
  
• Competitors' private label price promotions

We do not honor:

• Ads when the actual price for items cannot be determined.
• Internet pricing
• Misprinted ad prices of other retailers
• Going out of business" sales or "close out" prices

Thanks to Foodie!!

[foodie]

Hi, Sarah--

No, you rock! Thanks for merging my 2 threads.

Have fun--

Foodie (Katie)

[hsanders7595]

In four different WM had problems in two. One in a WM that the day before told me after 45 minutes of going back and forth that I would have no more problems in that store. The cashier was kind of passive aggressive, she would reach over and pat my hand and tell me she agreed with me and then tell me I was ripping off the store. She said she just wouldn't feel right and would feel guilty. Ugh! It was so frustrating!! My coupons were finally accepted in all the stores, but it's still difficult. I was not getting any cash back, just overage. In one store the cashier was like "oh no, you CAN NOT do that!". She had scanned all the coupons then proceeded to take them all back off. I asked if I could speak to a manager (because she would not even look at the coupon policy I had brought with me), she called him over and as I was explaining to him and he WAS reading the policy another manager came over and said "oh, I've got this." I though oh no I'm done. But she said she had been on the phone to the home office and that I was . . . . .RIGHT!! She told the cashier to take the coupons, then she asked if my total was a negative (it wasn't), the cashier kept saying "but the item is .97 and the coupon is 3.00". Manager said it doesn't matter. Cashier: "what if total was a negative?" Manager: "Then you would owe her (me) money!" Cashier did not look happy about that. I told them it was too bad that WM put this out without letting the stores know, and the manager said yeah I know!

[queenofthehivemomof5]

Added an example of a Competitors Double/Triple coupon to the Wiki as Walmart will NOT accept these, Albertsons here in the NW issues these coupons every few weeks and before the newer coupon policy changes at Walmart I heard reports that some Walmart stores were accepting them. I am sort of glad that they have officially said that they would not accept them because I had a feeling that Albertsons might decide to stop doing the double coupons because of Walmart accepting them. And we don't get good doubles here to begin with and Albertsons is pretty much the only store that does them, even though you can only do three coupons per transaction.

I also wish the PDF downloadable coupon policy was not such a ink waster! LOL

[CW&M Mom]

Will be working on getting more scans in the wiki.

If anyone finds a BOGO store coupon (like a walgreens coupon) that states the price in the coupon if you can let us know...or scan it and add to the wiki. I'd really like to get some examples of that.

We're in for a fun ride folks...while this new policy gets all sorted out.

Couple things I noticed off hand: this policy: We do not require customers to have the ad with them to honor a competitor's ad.

and this one: There is no limit on the number of coupons per transaction. ~~My gosh a store actually posted the word TRANSACTION!~~


And in case anyone missed it...this new policy nixes any use of Register Rewards or other catalina's that are for $ money off the entire transaction...instead of tied to a specific product

[434Teresa]

Thanks for the price match link..I knew that was comming but was still getting the old one on the link I had...

[newatthis]

i wondered about that= We do not require customers to have the ad with them to honor a competitor's ad.
So, they will take my word for it? totally weird!

[CW&M Mom]

Several years ago when I would price match alot...It was usually mountain dew I was price matching...and I would just tell them "Hyvee has pepsi/m dew for 99cents a 2 liter" and that was enough for them.

However when I would price match a bunch of stores...I always made sure I brought my ads with me.

[queenofthehivemomof5]

My Walmart usually has the other store ads there somewhere in case I forget. I usually have the ads with me in my binder though.