Cut Your Grocery Bill In Half! with Stephanie Nelson, The Coupon Mom
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CVS is one of the best stores for Strategic Shoppers, because it has a generous coupon policy and offers multiple types of coupons and rewards. Best of all, almost all these savings tools are digital. They are available on the store website and in the app. You can’t forget a coupon because if you have your smartphone, you have all the coupons you need at your fingertips. Just click the coupons you want, which sends them to your account. The amounts come off automatically at the register. The person behind you in line doesn’t even realize you’re using coupons. It doesn’t get much easier than that! However, if you prefer paper coupons, you can always opt to receive hard copies in your CVS account.

CVS Savings Programs include the following:

• CVS Extra care program. Start by signing up for an Extracare account to get access to sale prices, coupons, and rewards.
• Become an expert at the CVS Coupon Policy. It will teach you how to easily combine and maximize coupon savings.
• CVS Coupon Center. If you prefer paper coupons, you can scan your CVS card at the red coupon kiosk in the store and get store and manufacturer’s coupons printed.
• Digital manufacturer’s coupons, such as $6.00 off 2 Curel lotions.
• Digital store coupons, such as $3.00 off a $10.00 purchase of any hand or body lotion. You can combine a store coupon with a manufacturer coupon on the same item. See the full CVS coupon policy for details.
• CVS Extra Bucks are individual rewards earned by a current purchase to be used on a future purchase. Specific ExtraBucks offers change every week. For example, if you bought 2 bottles of Pantene shampoo, you get a $3.00 ExtraBucks reward. You redeem the reward on a future purchase by going into your CVS Extracare account and selecting the $3.00 reward to be sent to your card. If you do not take this step, the $3.00 will not be taken off your next purchase. Pro tip: You only need to reach 98% of the target spending amount to get the ExtraBucks reward when it is a dollar amount. For example, if the offer says “Get $5 ExtraBucks when you spend $20 on beauty items” you will get the $5 reward if you spend $19.60 or more.
• Two percent Extracare rebates on all qualifying spending. You can use your Extracare rebate total to pay for future purchases each quarter.
• Use the weekly ad to plan your shopping — either from the newspaper, store, or online. When there is a digital coupon available on the website or app, or a coupon in the Sunday newspaper, the ad will let you know. In the example on the next page, the ad showed All Detergent and Snuggle softener’s sale price and tells you there’s a digital coupon for All Detergent available in the CVS app or website. You need to go to your account and send the coupon to your card for it to be deducted from your total at the register.
• Percentage-off store coupons, such as 20 percent off your entire order. The discount will only be applied to non-sale items. The store applies the percentage discount after the coupons are deducted.
• CVS Pharmacy and Health Rewards ExtraBucks. Earn credits when you refill prescriptions, enroll family members, get vaccines, and more. Redeem credits for cash toward nonpharmacy CVS purchases.
• ExtraBucks reward of $3.00 sent on your birthday to use on a future purchase.
• If you shop online regularly with CVS, you can save with the CVS extracare+ . You will get 20 percent off CVS Health brand products, a monthly $10 reward to spend on almost anything in the store, free same-day Rx delivery, free shipping from CVS.com, and access to their 24-7 pharmacist helpline. It costs $5.00 a month or $48.00 a year and offers a free 30-day trial. The $120 worth of monthly rewards justifies the membership cost if you remember to use them