By now I’m sure you’ve all heard about Wags’ corporate decision to remove the majority of Christmas “stuff” to shelves in the backroom when they haven’t sold at 50% off.  Yes, that’s right.  Later this year will see The Return of Christmases Past appearing at your local Walgreens.  If I were to call the Wags CEO, I’d say something along the lines of Dude, what the hell is wrong with your thinking?  Do you believe people won’t see the difference between new stuff at other stores and old crap from the back room? Target gets rid of its post-holiday junk with discounts gradually getting larger and larger until it’s gone.  Avail yourself of its secrets.

And one other thing:  if you don’t have the storage space now to handle all the things we couponers are begging to trade you high-value coupons for – what makes you think you can handle the further restrictions on space.  unless you plan on having tent sales?

Now on with today’s purchase attempts, since Walgreens doesn’t seem to be able to order/stock the Natrol, Celsius or Focus Omega 3 (and let’s not even mention Sinex):

The Lazy Town children’s gummy vitamins are going to be on sale starting the 9th for $5 with a $5 RR.  I had heard some rumblings that the deal might be working now – wrong!  Not only is it not working now, the damned things rang up at $8.49, even though they were all in a display advertising a $5 price.  and we’re not at Jewel, remember…  So I ran a couple of transactions to come up with the stuff in the picture:  3 Deans milks; 3 Natrol Acai (using the Wags IVC and the $2 mfr AND the BOGO this week) and 2 Celsius ($1 pdf coupon) .  Total OOP was $9.88 (!) but got back $6 in RRs from the Celsius.