CVS is the easiest of the three major drugstores programs to learn and participate in.
The CVS reward program is called Extra Card Bucks, ECB for short. You can sign up for a Extra Care card at the cash register of any CVS store. You may register your Extra Care card here. This allows you to check balances, print out ECB, and be put on the email list for coupons and special offers. In addition to earning Extra Care Bucks with your Extra Care card, you will need the card to obtain sale prices.
CVS has CVS and manufacturer printable coupons offered here using coupons.com software.
You can earn 2% back in ECB with every purchase in-store and online at CVS/pharmacy. Also, in many states (excludes NY and NJ), you can earn 1 Extra Buck for every 2 prescriptions purchased in-store and online at CVS/pharmacy. The earned purchase rewards are different from sale flier rewards. These are referred to as “quarterlies” and paid out four times per year.
The CVS store circular lists the weekly sales and Extra Care Buck reward offers you are entitled to when you purchase said products, and scan your ECB Card.
You can obtain CVS store coupons many different ways:
• In-store Kiosk. Just swipe your card and the machine will print out coupons for you.
• When you check out you may receive coupons in addition to your ECB
• By registering your CVS shoppers card You may register your card here
• CVS has a magazine in-store that sells for 99¢ called Reinventing Beauty that frequently has coupons for CVS brand products.
You may use ECB earned on Order #1 to pay for purchase one Order #2, and still earn ECB on Order #2.
The ECB no longer remove tax.
The ECB may be adjusted down so your order is $0.00, filler not required. By this I mean if you have a $10 ECB and a $9.98 order, you do not have to look for an item to get you over $10, the clerk can adjust the ECB down to $9.98. At first glance this may seem like leaving money on the table, but the reality is just how many erasers, pencils, candy bars and paper clips do you actually need? If the filler costs you 50¢, you are paying 48¢ for something you may not necessarily need.
The CVS ECB Card is a Upromise participant.
If you live in California, you receive a slightly different ad than the rest of the country. You also have the $2 coupon policy for identifying expired goods in-store.
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I have a question about the quarterlies. I have been couponing weekly for almost a year, and I have never gotten any quarterly ECBs from CVS. Is it because I don’t spend enough actual $$ (my OOP per transaction is usually only a few cents)?
Gwen I don’t spend much, if anything either. I usually get 50¢. Are all your orders only tax?
Did you go last week or this week when they came out? And still nothing.
Ann
Yeah, I visited on the 5th, and I thought the rewards were issued after the 1st. I logged onto my account online and it said my spring spending was $67.65. I guess 2% of that is pretty small. Maybe it’s too insignificant to print?
Well no, that’s a $1. Give corporate a call and ask them why you did not receive it.
Ann
I noticed that not only do I receive ECB’s on my receipt, but the same ECB is on-line to print out on my computer. Can I use both of them?