This is how my wife managed to make the coupon work...

Simply buying the $1.99 cereal and handing over a $2.00 coupon at Walgreens does not work. What my wife did was let the cashier scan _TWO_ boxes of cereal and a filler item, and then handed over _ONE_ coupon. The coupon works.

Then, she says to the cashier that she has changed her mind and has the cashier void _ONE_ box of cereal. The cereal is then free and the filler item is reduced by one penny.

In my opinion, the Walgreens deal is not worth the effort. The coupons are better saved to use at stores with $2 prices.

RIP

Whatatay said:The OP should have put YMMV in subject line. The reason people are having to get a manual override is not because the item is less than the coupon, it's because the coupon isn't valid for other than the chocolate.Wrong. The coupon works fine on any variety, as many people have reported (this is true for almost all coupons). The issue is with the total price of the cereal purchased vs total coupon value. I tried to buy 3 today. The first two coupons worked fine but the third beeped. The cashier called over an assistant manager and when she read the coupon, of course she saw the chocolate variety and said that was why it did not work. In reality it was because I had exceeded the value and she only noticed the wording on the coupon because it was not being accepted. She would not take the 3rd one and ended up taking the 3rd box off my order but let me keep the other two and accepted the coupons that the register had already taken.

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RadioheadNC said:billrubin said:Whatatay said:The OP should have put YMMV in subject line. The reason people are having to get a manual override is not because the item is less than the coupon, it's because the coupon isn't valid for other than the chocolate.Wrong. The coupon works fine on any variety, as many people have reported (this is true for almost all coupons). The issue is with the total price of the cereal purchased vs total coupon value. I tried to buy 3 today. The first two coupons worked fine but the third beeped. The cashier called over an assistant manager and when she read the coupon, of course she saw the chocolate variety and said that was why it did not work. In reality it was because I had exceeded the value and she only noticed the wording on the coupon because it was not being accepted. She would not take the 3rd one and ended up taking the 3rd box off my order but let me keep the other two and accepted the coupons that the register had already taken.

I just got back from Target and used two of the coupons on a couple PS3 games and it worked just fine for me. Didn't have to buy a filler and the cashier didn't even have to call over a manager. They weren't chocolate-themed games either. Oh, my bad. I must be mixing two posts together.

hey, from day one the title of this thread said CHOCOLATE, if people try to use and succeed on another variety, that is their call and let their conscience be their guide. so please quit crapping up this thread with posts like this.

MISTERCHEAP said:RadioheadNC said:billrubin said:Whatatay said:The OP should have put YMMV in subject line. The reason people are having to get a manual override is not because the item is less than the coupon, it's because the coupon isn't valid for other than the chocolate.Wrong. The coupon works fine on any variety, as many people have reported (this is true for almost all coupons). The issue is with the total price of the cereal purchased vs total coupon value. I tried to buy 3 today. The first two coupons worked fine but the third beeped. The cashier called over an assistant manager and when she read the coupon, of course she saw the chocolate variety and said that was why it did not work. In reality it was because I had exceeded the value and she only noticed the wording on the coupon because it was not being accepted. She would not take the 3rd one and ended up taking the 3rd box off my order but let me keep the other two and accepted the coupons that the register had already taken.

I just got back from Target and used two of the coupons on a couple PS3 games and it worked just fine for me. Didn't have to buy a filler and the cashier didn't even have to call over a manager. They weren't chocolate-themed games either. Oh, my bad. I must be mixing two posts together.

hey, from day one the title of this thread said CHOCOLATE, if people try to use and succeed on another variety, that is their call and let their conscience be their guide. so please quit crapping up this thread with posts like this.

I prefer the term "making fun of" as opposed to "crapping up" (since we all know crap goes down). I apologize to all for being the first person not contributing in an intellectual manner to a thread on CEREAL.

Free at Smiths also.

For those of you like me who were denied the coupon at Walgreens.

Just came back from Smiths today. Had some other shopping to do and took the coupon to use if the price were decent. I found they have this cereal priced at 5 for $10 ($2 each) which makes it free with the coupon.

You can go to the Smiths webpage click on the weekly add, select your store, and see if it is on sale in your neighborhood. I found it on page 4 of the online ad.

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I would never buy this stuff at full price but you can't argue with free / near free.

For those wanting to print more coupons try virtualization (VMWare, Virtual Box, Virtual PC, etc).

Can you use all 6 coupons in oone transaction?

the1percent said:All varieties are $2.24 at my local WalMart. No problem scanning coupon with almond variety. Not free, but 24 cents plus a little tax is worth it.
That's the regular price at Target for the family size (19oz.).