How... how do the stores break even that way? I know not everybody shops with coupons but... how? They're practically giving you stuff. There's increasing floor traffic and then there's... giving stuff away.
One thing I will say the couponing I'm doing is a little extreme. Not that I'm like nuts with it, but I do have to store all my newspaper inserts (with a date written on the front) so I can reference them.
The thing is the people who make the coupons print them in the Sunday paper hoping you clip and buy that week. But often that's not the week that those items are on sale, usually it's several weeks later. I'm using coupons when things are on their biggest sale.
CVS tends to be pricey because people only shop while they're waiting on a prescription or if they need like ink pens and toothpaste and don't want to go to Walmart. Most don't use coupons there. And they'll have deals like, "Buy x for 1.99, get .99c in ECB!" And so I buy it, but I've got a $2 off coupon or something, so I still get the ECB and let the manufacturer pay for it.
Cause yeah, most of the coupons I use are not store issued. Which means the manufacture is paying CVS when I use the coupon. So CVS isn't hurting too much. :)
i overhead a conversation once where one of the women talking claimed to be the wife of a walgreens manager and she said that her husband says the Rx profits are enough to float the rest of the store which is how they can turn a healthy profit even though it usually looks pretty dead in there and their prices are rarely competitive with a normal store. i bet CVS is a lot like that too, although they seem to push brand loyalty a bit more than walgreens.
Yeah well and I think brand loyalty is why CVS is ok, and Walgreen's will be ending all rebate systems/store credit earnings in January.
That's of course heard from another couponer, and she *could* be wrong, but I've rarely seen it happen. Apparently Walgreen's had to go through a major restructuring and laid off a buncha people?
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The thing is the people who make the coupons print them in the Sunday paper hoping you clip and buy that week. But often that's not the week that those items are on sale, usually it's several weeks later. I'm using coupons when things are on their biggest sale.
CVS tends to be pricey because people only shop while they're waiting on a prescription or if they need like ink pens and toothpaste and don't want to go to Walmart. Most don't use coupons there. And they'll have deals like, "Buy x for 1.99, get .99c in ECB!" And so I buy it, but I've got a $2 off coupon or something, so I still get the ECB and let the manufacturer pay for it.
Cause yeah, most of the coupons I use are not store issued. Which means the manufacture is paying CVS when I use the coupon. So CVS isn't hurting too much. :)
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That's of course heard from another couponer, and she *could* be wrong, but I've rarely seen it happen. Apparently Walgreen's had to go through a major restructuring and laid off a buncha people?
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