CajunDixie
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CVS basically pays me to shop there so why wouldn't I go there? 
Get coupons, use one of several web-sites like coupon mom and match CVS sales to your coupons and you can actually make money shopping there. Any brands you do not use or items you can get for free you can either donate or sell in a garage sale. If you have a family member that say uses Crest and you don't then pick it for them (very often on sale/free) and sell it to them at a discount.
And if you have a family member that lives nearby take them shopping with you and get double the deals! Or if you're married some stores will encourage you to have 1 card for each spouse.
I doubt CVS loses any money since most people do not do all the deals and some people even are so dense they throw away their ECBs that are attached to their receipts.
The ECBs are on your receipt and will give you a dollar amount off your next purchase. If you have 3 separate ECB you must purchase at least 3 items. You can't buy 1 $20 item then try to use ECBs in the amounts of $12, $4, and $4. So sometimes people will use what we call fillers like buying a small item like 2 single pencils so as to use the 3 ECBs on the $20 item.
If I'm going to a nearby larger town that has a Walgreens they often have a few of the same items on sale so stocking up is easy. A great thing about Walgreen's is if their coupon says limit 6 usually you can purchase as many as you like and still get the sale price. Thats when "buying" coupons on places like Ebay can help you get totally awesome deals on multiple items.
Get coupons, use one of several web-sites like coupon mom and match CVS sales to your coupons and you can actually make money shopping there. Any brands you do not use or items you can get for free you can either donate or sell in a garage sale. If you have a family member that say uses Crest and you don't then pick it for them (very often on sale/free) and sell it to them at a discount. And if you have a family member that lives nearby take them shopping with you and get double the deals! Or if you're married some stores will encourage you to have 1 card for each spouse.
I doubt CVS loses any money since most people do not do all the deals and some people even are so dense they throw away their ECBs that are attached to their receipts.
The ECBs are on your receipt and will give you a dollar amount off your next purchase. If you have 3 separate ECB you must purchase at least 3 items. You can't buy 1 $20 item then try to use ECBs in the amounts of $12, $4, and $4. So sometimes people will use what we call fillers like buying a small item like 2 single pencils so as to use the 3 ECBs on the $20 item.
If I'm going to a nearby larger town that has a Walgreens they often have a few of the same items on sale so stocking up is easy. A great thing about Walgreen's is if their coupon says limit 6 usually you can purchase as many as you like and still get the sale price. Thats when "buying" coupons on places like Ebay can help you get totally awesome deals on multiple items.
For one, they don't accept my Debit card, no matter how many times I tried, its declined. Its a VISA DEBIT card, and even Disney World accepts it, but NOT CVS!
