Only 10 coupons allowed at Walmart

[CajunDixie]

My name is CajunDixie and I'm a PITA. I use as many coupons as I want, where I want. I occasionally write a check!! I price match! I'll even get the occasional item free if the price on the shelf doesn't match the price on the register. I don't bother to warn the person behind me I'm using coupons.....they don't warn me that they are wasting their money. I dare to use the limit 15 line when I have 16 items and there is no one in that line. I dare to use the tobacco line and I don't buy any cigs!! I sometimes pay for an OCT med or a box of tissues when I pay for a prescription. And my favorite....I sometimes go through the garden center line when I don't buy anthing from the garden center! I even dare to make my WalMart card payments at the register which has to be done as a separate transaction. Now that wouldn't take so long if WalMart actually trained the cashiers on what code to use for payment....thinking its code 70. And before you say I should go to the service desk.....why would I go through another line when it's a service offered at the registers? As is check cashing also.

Well, then you are probably waisting your checks and the money you pay for them because most businesses these days run the checks through as a debit transaction. So, even tlhough you are writing a check, it is still going through your bank as a debit.

But if I write a check I shouldn't be charged the debit fee my Credit Union charges for using my card as a debit. And if I ever do get charged a fee I can promise that business will get an earful.

 

[SandraVB79]

Only read the first post.

If it takes so much extra time to use coupons, the software Walmart uses on its cash registers is not designed properly.

I worked many years as a cashier for Delhaize (better known as the company that also owns Food Lion and Hannford and the like). After that, as a real job, I worked at the IT department for the same company, and I was for some time part of the team that developed the casg register software.

Scanning coupons shouldn't take longer than about a second each. If the software is designed right, the cash register "knows" whether the goods that the coupon is for are bought or not. If someone hands you 50 coupons, and they could only use 2 of them, if you scan all 50 only those two will be calculated.

I'm pretty amazed at the fact that that isn't the case at Walmart. Since they are pretty big one would think they have decent software on their cash registers!

 

[WDWHo]

My thoughts on your rant...You should have went to another line.

The woman in front of you was there first and she shouldn't have to worry about the impatient person behind her. It is so nice that you worry about everyone else but if you are in such a hurry, perhaps you shouldn't shop at Walmart because in my experience the lanes are never fast. The woman in front of you is smart enough to use coupons to save money and yet you are ragging on her because you were in a hurry. So apparently you are the most important person in that situation. Yeah for you.

I agree! My time is just as important as the person behind me. I am a paying customer with legitimate coupons and if your unlucky enough to get behind me with my stack of 30 plus coupons, bring a book, because I wont feel bad or sorry just glad I am smart enough to shop wisely. I had some huffy lady behind me get all upset because it took about 60 seconds to ring up the coupons, she kept saying that she was in a hurry and it was ridiculous, her order consisted of a People Magazine and some lifesavers.

 

[mtblujeans]

I really think you posted this in the wrong place

I for one:

1. Use my coupons at Wal-Mart. I don't have a local store that doubles coupons.

2. Have used more than 10 coupons at Wal-Mart. Never had a problem.

3. Always hand my stack of coupons to the cashier before she starts ringing things up - I have had the cashier ASK me for the coupons ahead. Thay way they don't get lost and she can keep an eye out for the coupon items.

4. Have had cashiers and people behind me in line CHEER ME ON with all the coupons I have! Cashiers have actually circles my coupon savings and shown it to other cashiers. (Then they ask me where I find the coupons so THEY can use them too.)

Maybe you shouldn't go to Wal-Mart. The checkout lines there are always slow, in my opinion. Stressing over the grocery line isn't good for you!

What she said.

 

[disneyfav4ever]

I use coupons all the time, though I always make sure I know how much something cost if I have a free coupon, and double check while in line to make sure I have everything, or that none of mine are expired.

My store actually doesn't either really bother checking my coupons against what I bought, since they know I'm honest about it, so if the computer beeps, they just override it without checking. We do get customers though who always come in with a pile of coupons, and always have expired ones, or didn't buy the right size or quanity of something, and we know we have to double check then.

I would be annoyed at a "limit ten" policy, and besides, what's the point of having it since they just took them all at the end anyway? That just seems stupid to me.

 

[disneyfav4ever]

We go on one big vacation a year and this pays for it. So, when I am stretched out on Castaway Cay this year sipping my pina colada, I will smile at all those people who think clipping coupons is a waste of time.

I agree, if I paid full price for groceries, and didn't follow sales, and use coupons, it would be much more difficult to go on my Disney vacations. Why just yesterday I saved more then what it costs for the dining plan for one night. So my savings is going to "pay" for my meal at CA Grill, or wherever.

 

[disneyfav4ever]

At our local WM, there are a few cashier I avoid because they are so s l o w. Man, one will pick up an item and look at it from every angle and tell you how cute it is or ask who its for, etc, and then finally ring it up. Then it is the same thing with the next item."Oh, I've seen these, but have never used them before. Do you like them?" Scan. Pick uo next item. Exaime it. "Oh, I bought these last week. I really like them. Have you gotten them before?" Listen to your answer. "Well, you're going to love them. I'm sure." Look at item again and then scan. And so it goes.....

One of the baggers at my store does that too. Now once in awhile, if it's something that truly looks interesting, like about a week or so ago, we started carrying Lean Cuisine flatbreads in our store, and I did say something about that. But I can check as I'm asking about it. I know I'm one of the fastest checkers anyway, since they post some kind of "score" in our lounge, and there's a point system they use to average how fast we're checking. I have no idea how it's measured, except it does seprate "under 15" orders, and big orders, and it knows how many items we do a minute. But I do know that they highlight all the checkers that are faster then the speed they hope we can achieve, and I am a few points over it.