Here is a picture of the $4RRs that printed when I tried the following this morning: Buy 4, use 2 BOGO Total Care toothbrush coupons; buy 4 use $/1 toothbrush and/or floss, etc. coupons; buy 4 use $1/1 Smart Rinse and/or kids Reach toothbrush coupons(10/10 r). All coupons worked, Unless you have no coupons at all, I’d recommend against eBay, since the prices are high, quantity is low and you may or may not get them in time for the sale.
Update: Steve spent hours also on the phone with this. Catalina confirmed it was working with Wags and the Reach toothbrushes (he checked all the UPCs), AND he also rang up four toothbrushes and got back a $4 RR. He also now wishes to be referred to as The Coupon God. give a guy an inch… Unfortunately, he was unable to secure more than 500 toothbrushes, so asks that anyone coming to the Wheaton store honor his request that only 20 brushes (five transactions) be run at a time/day. He has no problem with multiple purchases over each day (but that would be rather time and gas inefficient). If he has stock remaining by the end of the week, my guess is he’d allow some larger numbers…
I’m posting this now just to let you all know that I’ve been spending most of my day on this potential Wags MM. The Catalina site shows a cat for Reach toothbrushes between 3/6/11 and 3/29/11: Buy 2 get $1; buy 3 get $2; buy 4 or more get $4. Since there are wonderful $1/1 coupons in the 10/10 r, we’re looking at some serious money.
Unfortunately, couponing life isn’t always so simple. While people on MUM commented that they were receiving the RRs last week, purchases made Sunday did not receive anything. I tested this earlier today, using 4 Reach toothbrushes, purchasing $10 worth of Reach toothbrushes, nothing printed using any combination. No mention of this promotion is shown in the 3/20 ad, nor was Steve able to locate anything on his store computer, no matter how many frantic calls I placed to him. He’s been unable to find any store display showing this promotion. He left a voice mail at Catalina for clarification, because if the RR is supposed to be printing all month, Walgreens has already got a problem. Throw in the sale next week? Ouch… No mention of this RR has been made on iheartwags, only wild for wags. Since the latter posts from Florida, maybe it’s not running around here? It’s also shown up on hip2save as the deal I listed above, I just read the entire post and realized that it was taken from wild for wags! sorry…
My best advice? Wait. I know it’s hard (for me too) and you worry you’ll miss the deal and pots of money if you don’t order the coupons NOW, but Steve assured me that he will be able to order large amounts through a private warehouse, so no problem with missing a warehouse order/delivery date. And since we’re talking about a deal that runs through the 29th, we can all get rain checks if necessary; another day or two won’t hurt and might save some wasted coupon purchases.
Well with the lengths that Steve is going to for us, I’ll call him whatever he wants!!
hell yeah, I don’t even live down that way and I will call him that! damn, I wish he’d come up north and teach some of the yokels up here to be so cool!
Hands off my mgr, tramp! Get yer own coupon-friendly store. I will say, though, that I have never before experienced such a willingness to work with couponers, even at those Wags that were supposedly coupon-friendly (didn’t spit in your eye and complain that you were getting stuff for free).
How Steve sees all the MM phone orders… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTJhnuQMbL8
Ahhh. I found your site through mashup! Very nice to find an insider’s guide to wags- my sister in law that works at photo downstate has good informations, but she’s always a bit off…heh.
So, what is the price on the toothbrushes right now? I though the sale didn’t start til Sunday…?
The catalina is through March 29, so it’s possible to check for RRs using the non-sale price of $1.79, which is just what I did this morning. Starting Sunday the 20th, you can use the in-ad coupon to subtract .80 from each toothbrush. You can’t use the in-ad coupon until the store’s registers reset either late Saturday night or early Sunday morning (I wanted to check this, too).
So should I go ahead and order Q’s or is the 500 all Steve will have even thru 3/29? I don’t have any (I use CouponDeDe). So the price for week 3/20 will be $ 1.79-0.80 = $0.99 and then if I can buy the $1 off toothbrush and/or floss coupons, then its a $4 MM? Yes?
IF you can find such old coupons (I was only able to find a couple of sellers on eBay)…the catalina is printing through 3/29, so if you got a rain check you would still get the sale price and the cat. I don’t see why numerous rain checks wouldn’t be possible, but there’s a very good chance the warehouse will be out as the other stores play catch up. I’ll check with Steve today about issuing rain checks – very good question.
Yeah, not finding much on Ebay (too expensive…$8 for 20). CouponDede only has the $1/1 Smart Rinse and/or kids Reach toothbrush AND the BIGI Total Care 10-10-10 RP one. I’m just going to the amount that Steve limits us to (20) cos I suspect the warehouse will be out.
Can I confirm the Inserts for the coupons:
I found :
Reach Kids Toothbrush, Listerine Smart Rinse Anticavity Mouthwash, OR Agent Cool Blue Tinting Rinse (500 mL)~$1.00/1~4-30-11 10-10-10 RP
But where are the other 2 you mentioned (see 2 BOGO Total Care toothbrush coupons; buy 4 use $/1 toothbrush and/or floss, etc. coupons;) ? In 10-10-10 RP as well?
Thanks
ALL the Reach coupons were in the 10/10 r; it was a 2-page spread with about eight or 10 coupons along the bottom. It included a buy 3 products (one from each group: toothbrush, floss, mouth wash) $3/3 which was used shortly after the insert came out. I would advise against using this coupon as it states clearly that it cannot be used on duplicate items (2 or 3 toothbrushes, for example), may beep, so the cashier either pushes it through (which imo is fraud) or tells you it can’t be used (which imo is embarrassing). Honest mistakes are one thing, but the deals are good enough that using a clearly wrong coupon might burn your relationship with a store and then what’s left? Dominicks and Walmart, that’s what.
you can also use coupontom.com to check which inserts coupons are in
Thanks Ladies, I just started in 1/19/11, so anything older I have to search for and order.
I was looking at the Wag ad and it seems like the 99 cents is for the Floss or Crystal Clean Toothbrush. Would the BIGI Total Care coupons & the Reach Kids coupons work for that (I just bought them)
Thanks again
Please reread the original post, as I tell you the coupons I used on the 4 Crystal Clean toothbrushes; all coupons posted worked perfectly. The only coupon I do not recommend is the $3/3 one from the 10/10 insert because it clearly states it is for purchases of three different products (not multiples of the same).
Sorry, my misunderstanding. Nevermind 🙂
Thanks for your help