- Today I have 10 crazy insider coupons secrets
for Walgreens and CVS.
This is information CVS and Walgreens
do not want you to know.
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Before I get to these insider secrets,
I can assure you that by the time
you finish watching this video,
you will be a couponing expert with a whole lot more
cash back in your wallet where it belongs.
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So let's begin first with just a quick reminder
that Walgreens and CVS actually offer
some of the best deals anywhere.
On Black Friday and Cyber Monday, when everyone's running
to Best Buy and Target, I actually go to CVS
and people look at me like I'm crazy.
But when it comes to household essentials,
the products we need, there are some great ways
to have both retailers work to your advantage.
There are tons of websites and vlogs and YouTube channels
devoted entirely to couponing at CVS and Walgreens,
but what most experts fail to mention,
which is my secret number one,
there are often better deals online than there are in store.
And I know, you guys would go to bestbuy.com
over going to the store, but do you actually go to cvs.com?
When is the last time you actually went online
to a Walgreens or a CVS website?
And I wanna remind you that all of these deals right now,
many of which ship free with the CarePass from CVS,
I'm gonna get through it all in this,
are deals that are not available in store.
Buy one get one, 50% off Pepto Bismol,
which would've been great
after that very interesting food dish I had last night.
These are things that I wouldn't have been able
to take advantage of at my local CVS.
And same with Walgreens.
Contact lenses, 25% off until December 31, 2020.
There's no Walgreens Reward that's printed
any time I've paid or checked out to alert me to this.
Just want to let you guys know that there are better deals
in many cases online.
For example, 20% off if you spend $80 at CVS
with this savings code, at least at the time
of recording this video.
That's not something advertised in stores.
And same at Walgreens, if you just go to walgreens.com,
there's a popup that you're gonna see
for 60% off photo prints.
Again, not heavily advertised, including 50% off
when you spend $100 or more.
Again, things not heavily advertised,
and a reminder for savings secret number one,
check the websites.
Savings secret number two: don't buy too many products
from the same category in one shot at CVS or Walgreens,
and I know this is gonna sound crazy
and there is a method to my madness.
I haven't scientifically proven this yet,
but as I'm sure you guys know, CVS and Walgreens
develop profiles based on you.
They figure out your habits, where you spend your money
and then they try to entice you with different offers.
And I've noticed that if for example, you buy shaving cream
many times at the checkout, you will eventually
get personalized coupons for razor blades,
and the woman behind me in the checkout line
is not getting that.
So it's based on habits in many cases,
and I wanna remind you guys that sometimes,
if you know that you've got a shaving cartridge purchase
that you don't need to make just yet,
start with the shaving cream.
If you know that later down the line,
you're going to need toothbrushes
but you're just buying toothpaste today, buy the toothpaste.
Wait, you will likely get a coupon for that toothbrush.
Savings secret number three:
sign up for the entire Rewards Club,
not just one part of it.
I wish it was this simple,
where you sign up for one reward card at CVS or Walgreens
and then you get everything rewarded based on your spending.
Of course, why would they make that easy for you?
For CVS, make sure you get the ExrtaCare card,
that's the base card.
We'll talk about this in a moment, but this rewards you
based on your regular spending in the store,
with the exclusion of beauty and pharmacy products
for the most part.
The ExtraCare Beauty Club rewards you
based on your spending for beauty products.
This includes makeup, certain types of moisturizers.
You get 10% off when you join right now,
plus $3 in ExtraBuck Rewards every time you spend $30,
so it adds up.
Plus you get birthday gifts and other discounts,
but that's step two of the Rewards Care Club.
And finally, step three of the ExtraCare Club
is make sure you get
the ExtraCare Pharmacy and Health Rewards.
You can't just have one card,
you need three all built into the same card.
Make sure you sign up for all three.
This will give you an additional $10 in credits
every time you go to the pharmacy, plus Extra Health Bucks
tied to your pharmacy spending.
At Walgreens, it's a little more simple.
Sign up for the Balance Rewards.
This is a rewards program based on your spending.
There's not 500 different parts of it,
and the Walgreens Balance Rewards program
will entitle you to what Walgreens calls Register Rewards,
which are just simply coupons.
Savings secret number four: know where to get the best
in store coupons.
I'm gonna show you some crazy tricks
to actually stacking coupons in a moment,
but you do not need to go to a circular,
you do not need to go to a newspaper.
For CVS, if you guys have ever seen
any of these coupon center printing machines
in the middle of your store, start there.
I always recommend that you curtail your shopping list
based on what's available.
You may not need toilet paper this week,
but if it's on sale and you know you might need it
in four weeks, you can actually adjust your spending
and you can scan, print and enjoy all of those savings
from the CVS coupon machines.
Walgreens makes it a little bit easier.
For Walgreens, if you actually go onto walgreens.com,
I have all of this information
on mattsdailydeals.com as well,
you're going to find all of the coupons
in terms of their Balance Rewards already available.
You can clip them, which is amazing, makes it very easy
and then they're added to your account.
And if you actually wanted to see a weekly ad,
you have the ability to do that as well.
If you like that glossy print
but you don't actually want to deal with holding things,
you can just scroll through pet savings
and all sorts of additional deals and that way,
you are not limited to standing in line
and being pleasantly or unpleasantly surprised
at the cash register.
Savings secret number five: don't stop at just one coupon,
and this is a multi-part saving strategy,
but I wanna remind you guys, whether it's CVS or Walgreens,
both retailers are more aggressive when it comes to coupons
than pretty much any store in the country.
They accept in-app coupons, CVS coupons at CVS,
Walgreens coupons at Walgreens, email coupons,
and then additional manufacture rebates and coupons,
which brings us to savings secret number six,
and this is so important.
At both CVS and Walgreens, you can use multiple coupons.
It's all laid out in their coupon acceptance terms.
That means you can stack one manufacturer coupon
and multiple store coupons for CVS and Walgreens
on top of each other.
It doesn't matter in what order you present your coupons.
Obviously, you can't use a Walgreens coupon at CVS
and a CVS coupon at Walgreens.
What I'm trying to impart is that you can apply
one manufacturer coupon, limit of one,
and then countless CVS coupons on top of that
with one awesome exception!
You can tell I really need more friends.
And that brings us to one awesome exception,
which is savings secret number seven.
All right, take a very close look at your screen.
CVS is one of the only retailers in the country,
one of the only national retailers that I know of,
where manufacturer coupons can be used on clearance items.
Not CVS or Walgreens in store coupons,
but manufacturer coupons can be used on products
that have already been sent to clearance.
And that brings us to savings secret number eight,
and this one is really important
because when it comes to buy one get one items,
you can actually double your savings,
get two items for free at CVS,
making them one of the only national retailers
that I know of that permits this.
So when it comes to buy one get one free coupons
at Walgreens, you only get to use one coupon.
You buy one item, you get the second one for free.
You don't get both items for free.
But at CVS, that's actually possible.
CVS will accept two buy one get one coupons for a product.
So if you have a store coupon and the manufacturer coupon,
"customer will receive both items for free".
That is rare.
That is in the terms and conditions for CVS.
That is something not a lot of people know,
so please make sure you are aware of this.
If you are seeking a buy one get one product
where you want two shampoos and you're gonna buy two
and you have two coupons, whether it's a buy one get one
and a manufacturer coupon, you could combine them at CVS,
not at Walgreens.
Savings secret number nine: don't overshoot your coupons
past the value of a product, you'll actually lose money.
So a lot of people think, for example, if you see a product
that's $15.99 and you have a free $18 coupon,
a lot of people think if you use the $18 coupon,
CVS or Walgreens will give you the cash back upon checkout,
almost as though you're getting a refund.
They don't treat their coupons exactly like cash.
So I wanna remind you guys that on a $5 coupon for 4.99,
you get exactly the value of the coupon,
and if the product has a lower value than the coupon,
you don't get any money back, and I see it all the time.
People get really excited, they get a coupon,
they go to the cash register
and they go to pay for one product
where the value is less than the coupon
and they actually lose quite a bit of money
or quite a few Rewards Bucks.
So that's really important to know.
And savings secret number 10: don't have blind loyalty
toward any pharmacy chain.
Just because you do all of your shopping at CVS
doesn't mean you're actually getting the best deal
on a prescription from them,
versus Walgreens, versus Rite Aid.
The savings secret that I want to impart to you
is actually a search engine, which I've linked to
from my website mattsdailydeals.com,
where you can find the lowest price of a prescription
and then not only compare the prices but print free coupons.
You bring the coupons to your pharmacist
and you will enjoy massive savings
potentially on your medicine.
But just because something is $45 at Walgreens
does not mean you won't be paying $18.90 at CVS.
There is an app for this, it's the number one medical app
that I have profiled and it's really important for you guys
to know this, beyond all the coupons and the reward programs
and how much status you have and what connection you feel
to a specific pharmacy.
When it comes to your hard earned cash,
sometimes you need to jump ship,
sometimes you need to buy your beauty products at one store
and your pharmacy products at a different store.
So for prescription medications,
it's really important to know.
Even on things like Advil and Tylenol,
I've seen some big discrepancies
in terms of what one pharmacy sells for,
and this is a great way to check all of that.
So I hope you guys like this information.
I know that's a lot to ingest.
I know some of the coupons
might have seemed a little bit complicated
and I also know I speak fast.
But if you are looking for insider clearance savings
at Target, Walmart, Sam's Club, Costco, BJ's,
Amazon, Best Buy, you name it, I have you covered.
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