Rite Aid Deals 10/18 – 10/24/09 ($55.69 in profit!, get a $10 Rite Aid Gift Card and trot home with $219.20 worth of merchandise)
Walgreens Deals 10/18 – 10/24/09 (Moneymakers including Zantac & Theraflu!)
CVS Deals 10/18 – 10/24/09 (OOP $3.49 , Total merchandise: $37.97 + have a $10 ECB left over! )
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Last week hubby and I drove for apples, and there was a brief storm that broke out on our way up to the orchards. By the time we drove up there, we had discovered the stands had all closed early for the day. They probably assumed the storm would last a lot longer. I wanted apples, hubby is OOT next week, so it was today or never.
Headed out to Walgreen’s and my favorite cashier was working this week. I got my eight papers, had my $16 in RR and was paying … but I made the mistake of having hubby come in so as I was checking out he brought up some Arizona and candy so $20 in RR and 63ยข in change later (sigh) we walked out.
Then off to Rite Aid. We pulled into the lot at three minutes to nine but the store had already opened their doors. People I had not seen since the last huge free sale were swarming the aisles. I went for the Poligrip first and grabbed the only one on the shelf, the hubby grabbed the other stuff I had on the list. I decided to only get what we could use, so instead of making $28 I made $7.
After that it was off for apples. We had hoped to pick up Delicata squash too, but no luck. Our CSA has some, so we will send an email and see if they will sell us some.
We picked up blackberries for $2.50 a pint, salt potatoes, Gala apples, Jonagold apples, Bosc pear (Bartlet are gone for the season) and spend about $35. The apples will last us until next April at least, the pears until Christmas. The blackberries will be gone as soo as I can cram them in my mouth. 
How did your shopping go today?
so what exactly will you do so that your apples last that long… just curious as to what everyone else is doing with their fruit roundups
We have a garage ‘fridge that we store them in. The lady at the stand was impress when I told her they finally have up the ghost in June from last year’s purchase.
You may want to check out my Stockpile Recipes for what to do with apples, squash, etc.
This last post lists them all
Ann
You were lucky to find the last Poligrip. I was at 2 Rite Aids and didn’t find any and I really wanted to use the Free Coupon! There is a third Rite Aid that I can walk to so I’ll try them.
I managed to get 11 of the 14 free items. I got lots of stuff I’m not going to use but all of this week’s items (except the Poligrip) don’t have sales tax so they are really free. I had coupons for 4 of the items so those were money makers. The best one was the $3 coupon I had for the Chloraseptic Allergen Block. Between the 4 coupons, the $5/$25 coupon and the $2 Discover coupon, I made $13.
Walgreens has a really great deal on Skippy peanut butter especially if you were lucky enough to get the .75 coupons in last weekend’s inserts. The Skippy is 3/$5 and if you buy 8, you get $8 in register rewards. The 8 Skippys came to $13.34. I had 7 coupons ($5.25) so after the register rewards my cost was 9 cents!!! If you have 8 coupons, you can make a profit. I didn’t mind having only 7 because I could use a $2.50 register rewards that was expiring today.
Walgreens also has a good deal on the Quaker Instant oatmeal (2/$5) and you get $5 in register rewards if you spend $10. I had 2 $1.25/2 coupons so my net cost for 4 boxes was $2.50.
I usually have problems at Walgreens but today was problem free!
Gita
Walgreen’s was just newspapers with RR’s.
Took a long time to organize for Rite Aid. Spent $21 will get back $47.Did rebate #77 buying a total of 6 Herbal Essence shampoo and 6 styling product. Today’s paper had a buy shampoo and get styling product free. Also used 6 ($1) and split it into 2 orders. Will receive back a $10 gift card.
Trying to come up with a deal on #68. Buy $25 Advantage products and get a $10 gift card. There was a box of Phazyme for $3.99, but they only had 2. Coupons in today’s paper…$10 off 3.
Hi Gita,
That’s why I was very tempted to get items at RA I did not need… no tax means it was all free (well a $5 moneymaker every $25) even without coupons.
I stopped at second RA that had about 20 poligrip on the shelf. Wish I had had more free coupons with me.
Ann
Hi Wendy,
If you really want to do #68 this week:
Citrucel and Phazyme are both $11.99 + the $3.99 box you found:
(1) $11.99
(1) $11.99
(1) $3.99
= $27.97
- $5/$25 RA coupon
= $22.97
- $10/3 manufacturer coupon
= $12.97
- $10.00 Rite Aid Gift Card = $2.97
Now, if you want to find a store that has more of the $3.99:
(7) $3.99
= $27.93
- $5/$25 RA coupon
= $22.93
- (2) $7/2 manufacturer coupon
- (1) $10/3 manufacturer coupons
= Errrr too much. That would be free as long as they’d adjust the last coupon, or if you do not want to deal with it, give (3) $7/2 coupon
= $1.93 OOP + Receive $10 RA gift card
Ann
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Great article by the way.
It’s amazing the savings that can be found at Rite Aid and Walgreens.
Thanks for the great deals!
I always try to save money through shopping and I absolutely love this Walgreens savings. You got some great deals. I will have to start watching this blog more often!
haha, I enjoyed reading your story about Walgreens, My boyfriend always does the same thing.
Never go shopping with men!
Wow–I have no idea what you ladies are talking about with Rite Aid and Walgreens and making money on the stuff you purchase there. I do pretty well with grocery coupons but have yet to tackle the drug store game. Thanks for posting about your successes–It gives me something to aspire to!