Sunday, October 24, 2010

Rite Aid & Walgreens: 30 minutes, $14 profit

We went to Walgreens and Rite Aid this morning.  In spite of hitting every.single.red light between Wags & Rite Aid, we got where we needed to go, got what we needed to get, and got home with the loot in about half an hour.

Walgreens
Purchased 1 Colgate Sensitive toothpaste 6oz for $3.49 and 1 Contac Cold & Flu Day & Night, 28ct for $6.00
Used $1 off Colgate coupon and $2 off Contac coupon
Received back $3.50 RR for the Colgate, $6 RR for the Contac
This should've been a $3.01 profit, but at the last second Andy grabbed two Ghirardelli bars (I'd commented while we were in line about yummy peppermint bark) and handed them to the cashier while she was scanning the coupons.  $2ea for those, so the toothpaste, Contac and two candy bars cost us $.99.
Total came to $10.49 after coupons, I paid with $2.60 in RRs from yesterday and $7.89 cash.
Received back $9.50 in RR


Rite Aid
Purchased 6 Alka-Seltzer Fast Powder Packs, 10ct for $5ea
Used a coupon for $5 off a $25 purchase
Used 6 $3 off coupons plus a $1 Rite Aid Alka-Seltzer coupon
Total came to $6.  Andy snuck two more candy bars in for $.50ea, so the actual total came to $7
(he has a serious sweet tooth!)
Paid with +UPs from last week.
Received back six $2 +UPs (one for each of the Alka-Seltzer) and a $10 +UP for spending $30 on Bayer products - total of $22 in +UPs


Today's shelf price: $53.68
Total paid: $17.49 ($9.60 in reward dollars, $7.89 cash)
Reward dollars received: $31.50
PROFIT of $14.01!!
As a bonus, all my Alka-Seltzer boxes had a $1 off coupon expiring 12/2011.  If another good sale comes up, I've got $6 in coupons at hand.

Mom got in on the Bayer deal at Rite Aid as well this morning.  She got 5 bottles of Bayer Low Dose at $6.xx each and used a $1 manufacturer's coupon and a $3 Rite Aid store coupon on each bottle.
Her total was about $35
Less $5 off $25 purchase
Less $20 in coupons
She paid $10 in cash & previous +UPs and received a $10 +UP for buying $30 of Bayer items - making all her Bayer aspirin FREE!  Nice going, Mom!!

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