Tigs Coupons and More

Let me start this post not on my experience tonight , but one a few weeks ago that ties into my experience tonight! As alot of you know Millstone coffee had put out a money making coupon a few months back, I happen to get my hands on some right before they expired. They were $2 off ANY bagged coffee. So of course i go get some of the smallest bags which cost $1.64 each. I asked the lady @ the customer desk before i even tried to shop after some discussion they agreed it was ok. SO i get my coffee and other items and head to check out. As soon as i pay the STORE MANAGER and his asst manager come running over with THEIR coupon policy in hand saying we have to void this transaction that no where does it say WalMart will pay overage. I politely say may i see that please? I find on there where it says it and show them. "O we didn't see it" Knowing they had probably been discussing it the whole time I was shopping, but I let it go.

2 weeks after that I go into wal mart with a few money making similac coupons. I had planned to buy 5 cans for the overage and then donate them to a local church. Again the asst mngr comes over and tries to tell me I can not do that after a little discussion they allow it. Yet she is fussing and talking under her breath the whole time.

This brings us to tonight. Now In the past month I have cut down my walmart shopping b/c I hate the hassle. But I had those $2 bic coupons that would make me money and had seen on other blogs a few good deals/money makers at wal mart this week such as. . . The Heinz coupon Heinz gave us this week for $2 off ANY ( i bought the $1.60 size) The Reach floss coupons $1 off ANY (I bought 88¢ size) and of course my $2 off ANY bic disposable razor excludes trail size.

I get to check out with my things ( i have about a half a cart full) I ask the lady to give me one sec to get coupons on top the items so there would be NO problems this time as I am harnessed EVERY TIME I try to use coupons here. Now let us all keep in mind that walmart is a big company, they have very sophisticated registers that not only will BEEP when you try to use the wrong coupon but it will print a lil note stating why you can not use this coupon. Now I was unsure of the bic razor coupons even though it said NO WHERE on them that they were trail or travel size. SO I saved that for last and asked the cashier to scan one then a coupon to see if it was OK. It went thru! Which i knew it would. yet she STILL calls over the SAME asst manager who proceeds to tell me none to quietly that Walmart WILL NOT PAY ME OVERAGE and I have to BUY A MORE EXPENSIVE ONE LIKE THE PICTURE ON THE COUPON. I ask her " are you going to go by the picture or what the coupon actually says and that it rang thru. So she reads the coupon and it stated $2 off ANY Bic disposable razor excludes trail size. I tell her I looked all over the razor package and it says no where that it is trail size. I was SO upset that i have to go thru this EVERY TIME i shop there. And that every time they are RUDE to me and embarrass me like I am trying to ROB them! I DID NOT make up this coupon Policy WA MART did!! So i ask YOU WAL MART how can you have a coupon or any policy that not even the managers that RUN your stores know? All the money you make and you can not even take the time to TRAIN your OWN employees?? I am DONE with you wal mart! I have a very VERY nice publix 30 mins from me that not only doubles my coupons but takes everyone I bring in the store. and does it with a smile! I am a HONEST couponer! I never try to use a coupon for anything other than what it says!! Every coupon you are given is cash to you! You get the money back PLUS a handling fee! Wal mart needs to decide do they really want to make money or not! They have already dropped down from being #1 lowest priced and that is only the beginning if you continue to have uneducated employee's that do not know your store policy!

Alot of people accept this treatment as normal now! But I will NOT! I know what it is like to go to a store that values you being their and CHOOSING to spend your money with them! Let us all stand up to this type of treatment! It will only continue as long as WE allow it!!

~Tigs~