Reader Holly had a great trip to her Walmart, price matching and using coupons! Longest check out ever!!!!! Register locked up and we had to manually deduct coupons… Total $418, paid $150.70″
Holly says “My 3 best deals”:
- Finish dishwasher tabs Price Match to HEB $3.94 minus $1.25 coupon for 25ct or more.
- Price Match Oak Farms milk to CVS $3.29
- Price Match HEB Tyson chicken bags for $3.49
- Oh… And I’m a Folgers fan but my jugs of coffee are almost $10. DG has 30oz Maxwell house for $5- $1/any. Amazing amazing amazing coffee deal!!!
* I don’t have the entire breakdown, but you can do the same thing by using my match-ups and price match lists, and just spending the time to go through your local ads!
I had the same problem as Reader Holly, I ad-match 65% of my shopping trip for the month at Walmart, last weekend before q’s was $637, but register locked up only $20 into my $110 worth of coupon deductions. Fortunately, one of the top managers agreed to manually enter my coupons. The Finish was one of my best buys, finding the bonus pkg’s 37ct for the same price as 25ct, ad-match $3.97 with coupon.
Does anyone have a problem at Walmart that if the coupons don’t scan across the scanner they will not put them in by Hand. That is how my local Walmart is. They won’t even use the gun. Don’t matter if internet coupon or one from the paper. Please let me know. Thanks Teri
I work at walmart and we will manually hand key them in if they don’t scan.
I have been told at my Walmart if the coupons don’t scan they are not aloud to scan them in.
Just curious… at Walmart, this much deal took how many checkout orders? Was it done in one checkout?
I had the same issue a couple of months back and the problem with the register locking up is if ther are 40 or more price matches in the transaction so after my 1 hour check out we has to start all over and it took 2 and a half hours doing seperate transactions
Thanks for the help, didn’t have price changes on this trip..The mangement said of they don’t ring up we can’t take them. When he looked at the coupon and the item he said they were a match but didn’t understand why the scanner wasn’t taking them. I told him nicely then I didn’t want the items I couldn’t use coupons with. They had to put back a lot. All I have in my area is Walgreens and a HyVee store or Walmart. Thanks Teri
Personally, if I’m doing this major of a trip, I break it out into smaller orders. I’ll do 4 trips to my car and then reloading the cart back up. I just find it easier to keep it straight in my head that way. I don’t do much price matching anymore anyway because they always treat me so badly with it. But with regular coupons, I would rather focus on a small list at a time rather than end up with a cashier doing something stupid and then me not being able to tell where a mistake was. Target was actually the last place I had issues. But the cashier sat there and shuffled my coupons like she was dealing cards before she started scanning them. Big surprise when some got missed and she couldn’t figure out what. At least at Walmart they can do that print out.