My $7 Trip to Walmart – I fought the new coupon policy & won!

I’ve wanted to post this for a week now but haven’t had the time!  I went to Wal-Mart last weekend to try out their new coupon policy.  Knowing Wal-Mart, I made sure I printed a copy of it to take with me.

Here’s what I got:

Gain Sheets- $1.87 x2
-$3 off Gain coupon x2
=$2.26 OVERAGE!


GoGo Squeeze Applesauce – $2.28
no coupon for it but my OVERAGE covered it!


Slow Cooker Liners – $1.87 
-$1 off coupon
=87c

Vitamin Water – $1.18
-75c off catalina coupon from Winn-Dixie (this is the one I had to fight them on!)
= 43c

Friskies Cat Treats – $1.42 x 2
-$1 off 2 coupon
=$1.84 for 2 

Motrin PM – $3.97 x 2
-$6 off 2 coupon    
=$1.94 for 2

Bananas – 52c/lb (the lowest price on bananas around!)
=$1.07 for 2 lbs

Subtotal – $5.17
Tax – $1.88
PAID = $7.05


The cashier whipped out her binder when she got to the Catalina coupon from Winn-Dixie.  And I whipped out my printed coupon policy!  She told me she couldn’t take it because there wasn’t an example in her binder.  The only problem was she was looking at the store coupon page where it was showing Target store coupons.  I couldn’t make her understand that the coupon I had wasn’t a store coupon.  I showed her on my printed policy that the coupon I was presenting her met the requirements (manufacturer coupon with a scanable bar code and a remit to address).  She called someone over and they took the coupon, reluctantly and then made a copy of the policy I had.  She said the problem was that Wal-Mart was telling them one thing and then telling the customers something different.  I want to say, “No, the problem is that you and your employees don’t understand coupons.”  But what I really said was, “Sorry for the trouble.”  :smile:

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