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FALL-WINTER 2023 Shopping Fun and Frustrations!!!!
November 12, 2023 at
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It's a pretty serious screw up to list a coupon that they've blocked from working. You would think that somebody in the process would know that. A high percentage of posts about CVS each week are about coupons not working (usually ip's). I wonder if CVS is adressing the problem or just doesn't care. I don't use ip's but I still have a lot of problems with the correct coupons not working.
It's a pretty serious screw up to list a coupon that they've blocked from working. You would think that somebody in the process would know that. A high percentage of posts about CVS each week are about coupons not working (usually ip's). I wonder if CVS is adressing the problem or just doesn't care. I don't use ip's but I still have a lot of problems with the correct coupons not working.
CVS has historically issued DQs or CRTs that say they work on items that they don't work on, that is nothing new.
I have a theory about coupons dot com ips. Since they don't work right after they are issued, but sometimes work later on, I have a feeling coupons dot com isn't updating the interface CVS uses to validate ips as soon as they are issued.
Since CVS was burned by so many people photocopying ip coupons, they had to do something to stop the bleeding. Did they overcorrect? Maybe. Or did they correct to a point where it was supposed to allow valid coupons and coupons dot com isn't doing their job? Maybe.
I am finding the ips I receive direct from companies work the first time I try them at CVS, whether I use them on the first day I get them or on a future date.
The coupons and ecb's don't work on the covid test because insurance is paying for them. You would think that CVS would know this especially since they own an insurance company lmao.
If your theory is correct, CVS should reach out to CDC. Maybe CDC isn't aware of the problem.
CVS can't get burned anymore since they throw out the coupons. If the coupons are copies, who's gonna know?
What really doesn't make sense is that the manufacturers put a limit of 1 on the insert coupons but the only limit to the ip's is how much printer paper you have.
I don't use ip's and I'm advocating copying them. I'm just pointing out how dumb the system is.
The Maybelline deal at CVS is the hottest deal in a very long time.
When she scanned the coupon, a message came up, saying "not valid at target".
She gave me the $3 anyways.
When she scanned the coupon, a message came up, saying "not valid at target".
She gave me the $3 anyways.
You know, it's CVS, so who really knows for sure!
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What is most interesting to me is last year, so much of the chocolate candy I got at CVS had obviously been melted or was otherwise a little off in taste even though the bags were nowhere near the 'best by' date. Today I opened a couple of bags I got at Walgreens and none of the pieces we opened had been melted. All tasted extremely fresh.
These two stores are less than a mile from each other, but obviously something in the distribution or storage process was different between the two drug stores.
What is most interesting to me is last year, so much of the chocolate candy I got at CVS had obviously been melted or was otherwise a little off in taste even though the bags were nowhere near the 'best by' date. Today I opened a couple of bags I got at Walgreens and none of the pieces we opened had been melted. All tasted extremely fresh.
These two stores are less than a mile from each other, but obviously something in the distribution or storage process was different between the two drug stores.
I know previously, Halloween chocolates would arrive at my CVS probably sometime in the summer & would sit in the stores' warehouse for a couple of months.
Could the A/C @ the stores be a culprit?
I haven't had issues with candy bought at Wags / Safeway.
I know previously, Halloween chocolates would arrive at my CVS probably sometime in the summer & would sit in the stores' warehouse for a couple of months.
Could the A/C @ the stores be a culprit?
I haven't had issues with candy bought at Wags / Safeway.
From what I have seen, CVS doesn't use air conditioned trucks to deliver product to the stores, and our trucks traditionally come from a location over 150 miles away. Since one truck will distribute to multiple stores on any given day, products could sit on a truck for 2-3 hours just to get to our city, and then another 3 or 4 hours before arriving at the last store. Add on to that, when the candy arrived to the store in the summer, many/most/all stores probably were storing it in their back room which often are not airconditioned.
I am not familiar enough with Walgreens to know how products like candy are distributed to them. Safeway gets trucks at least a couple of times a week, and a lot of their trucks have to be air conditioned. Maybe they are just smart enough to know candy that melts needs to be shipped in a refrigerated truck?
What is most interesting to me is last year, so much of the chocolate candy I got at CVS had obviously been melted or was otherwise a little off in taste even though the bags were nowhere near the 'best by' date. Today I opened a couple of bags I got at Walgreens and none of the pieces we opened had been melted. All tasted extremely fresh.
These two stores are less than a mile from each other, but obviously something in the distribution or storage process was different between the two drug stores.
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Basically every store brand of frozen waffles: WM, Target, Aldi, Food Lion, HEB, Hannaford, Price Chopper, Schnucks, Dollar General, Publix, Harris Teeter, etc. and Kodiak name brand as well.