I’ve been trying to rework this deal for some time with Steve; I wish I had better news.  We were trying for a Manager’s Special over the 4th of July week-end, since both mfr and store coupons would still be valid.  Putting the deal at $1.50 would not give us money back, but would give us the free crackers.  While I like MMs better than most people, free Crackerfuls would still be a beautiful thing.

The only things holding Steve back were questions about: 1) his scanback rate from Nabisco and 2) whether or not the Wags warehouse had any stock.

Well, the Nabisco rate would work beautifully if Nabisco had ever sent any product to the warehouse. As it stands, every friggin’ grocery store in a five-state region has lots of Crackerfuls to sell but none was shipped to Walgreens.  Probably CVS even got product, a bigger slap in the kisser I couldn’t imagine.  Angry?  Hell, yeah, I’m angry and you should all be, too.  Nabisco enters into a deal with Walgreens for a special promotion, yet reneges when it comes time to actually ship the product.  My gut feeling is that Nabisco did not work out the money aspect before agreeing to the Register Rewards program with a high value mfr coupon out there.  This way they’re paying double.  too bad.  so sad.  i’m mad.