Walgreens Register Reward Challenge

In most weeks Walgreens sales ads offer Register Rewards (or RRs) for purchasing certain items during that week. The Register Rewards can be used on your next purchase of anything in the store.

My Challenge will be to track

1. How much I have spent OOP (out of pocket)
2. My OOP cost : amount of Register Rewards
3. Retail value of items I have purchased with the RRs.
4. How long I can keep using the RRs I received the week of May 16th – May 22nd

From May 16th – May 22nd they were offering $4.50 RR when you purchased Gillette body wash for $4.49. I was starting out with no Register Rewards since I had spent all of my RRs the week before. I did the following transaction 6 times.

• Gillette Deodorant $5.79
• Gillette Body Wash $4.49

Coupons Used

• MFQ Gil. Deo -$2.00
• MFQ Gil. B.W. -$4.49
• sub total $3.79

I spent $3.79 per transaction and received $4.50 in RR on each transaction. On the 6 transactions I paid $22.74 OOP (out of pocket) and I received 6 Gillette Deodorants, 6 Gillette Body Washes plus $27 RRs.

1. I spent $22.74 OOP (out of pocket)
2. $22.74 OOP : $27 RR
3. Retail value of all items purchased $61.68
4. 1st week

If you would like to try this yourself there are a few things I should explain about Walgreens and RRs. When using RRs, you need to be careful that you are not trying to get another RR from the same company. If you tried to use the $4.50 in RR you received when you bought Gillette body wash on Old Spice body wash expecting to get another $4.50 in RR, you would not receive it. Walgreens counts your RRs as a coupon and their coupon policy requires that you are purchasing 1 item per coupon used. So if you have 2 $3 RRs and try to use them both when buying 1 item the registers will not let you…this is when you will want to have a filler item or an inexpensive item you found in the store as a filler. If the item you are purchasing is less expensive than the RR, you will need to add a filler item.  You only receive 1 RR for each RR producing item per transaction, if you buy 2 or more of the same item producing RRs in 1 transaction you will only receive 1 RR.  If you would like multiples of an item that produces RRs, you will need to purchase them in seperate transactions.