I’ve heard from several of you who have had problems using coupons at Target. Thankfully, the corporate office has issued a public written coupon policy available for print HERE. I’ll be carrying this along with me for all future shopping trips.
I can only hope they require the employees to read it!
Posted in: learn the ropes,Target
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The problem I ran into is that many manufacturer coupons now carry the line "This cannot be used with any other coupon." My understanding is that this line is to keep consumers from using more than one manufacturer coupon since the corporation reimburses the store the value of the coupon and doesn't want to pay twice. The Target in my area interprets the line to mean any other coupon INCLUDING store coupons and wouldn't accept my line of logic. If you want, you could try the argument where you are and see…
Kelly Wilson
Author of Live Cheap & Free!
My experience: the local target management interprets the phrase "one coupon per purchase" which is common on all manufacturers coupons to mean ONE COUPON PER TRANSACTION. So in other words, a "purchase" is one deodorant. A "transaction" is your entire checkout order. They don't know the difference so they say I can only use one deodorant coupon per checkout order. Not true. I hope target gets it together soon.
I don't have any problems using Manfu and Target coupons. Here is what I got today at Target. I was armed with LOTS of coupons.
35 Fiber One Cereals
1 Cheerios Cereal
10 Fiber One Bars
Scrabble Jr
Monopoly Jr
Jenga
Scrabble Slam
Clue Jr Carnival
Leap Frog Frig Farm
30 Cheese Sticks
1 Pineapple
Total $286.26
Coupons Used: $256.90
Total Paid: $29.36
Gift Cards Rewards: $45
So bottom line I made $15.64 and bought tons of stuff! I also did price matching cereal for $1.88 (Kmart). I will be heading to the Food Bank with lots of cereal.
Andrea – I'm going shopping with you next time =)