How to Work the Deals at CVS

1. Get a  CVS EXTRA CARE REWARD CARD and register it online.

With the CVS Extra Care Card you will receive the sale prices, ExtraBucks® rewards  on selected items, and quarterly ExtraBucks® rewards on all of your CVS purchases and prescriptions, and CVS coupons for a variety of products in the store.

Get your card at CVS and you can begin to use it right away.  Register Your Card Online at CVS.com by clicking on the ”Extra Care” icon. Elect to get all CVS home and email mailings. If you want to get a separate free email address from Google or Yahoo for all your online coupons and sign-ups, you should. To maximize your CVS savings, you need to get their emails and in home coupons.

 

To thank you for registering your card you should receive an email from CVS with a $4 coupon good on a $20 purchase if you gave an email address.  

 

What you get back each quarter:  CVS Extra Care customers receive 2% back quarterly for their out of pocket purchases as an ECB (ExtraCare Buck) which will be printed on  the bottom of your first receipt of the new quarter, the next time you shop at CVS and scan your card.

Extra Care customers also receive $1 for every two prescriptions filled at CVS. These also print out quarterly and are included in the same ECB as the quarterly out of pocket spending mentioned above.

 

2. Always scan your CVS card upon entering the store in the kiosk used for price checking at the front of the store. You will get coupons that print out that you can use now or hang onto them and match them up with a sale.

 

3. Sign up for the ExtraCare® Beauty Club – you can join online at CVS.com or just have the cashier sign you up in store. It is worth it! You get a 10% off beauty shopping pass after enrollment, $5 ExtraBucks® rewards for every $50 spent on qualifying beauty purchases (CVS automatically keeps track) and $3  in ExtraBucks® rewards on your birthday. 

 

4. Load e-coupons right to your ExtraCare store card. They call it the “Send to Card” option.To take advantage of this new feature, cardholders can sign up for ExtraCare emails at http://www.cvs.com/extracareemail. Once enrolled, customers will receive personalized offers to use when shopping at CVS/pharmacy. When receiving these offers by email, customers will have the option to either “Send to Printer” and bring the coupon with them to the store to redeem, or “Send to Card” to send it directly to their ExtraCare card for automatic redemption to realize instant savings when scanning their card at the register during check out.From the CVS news release – “Customers who have opted in to receive ExtraCare emails can choose to send select coupons directly to their ExtraCare cards for automatic, digital in-store redemption, eliminating the need to print those coupons at home and submit paper copies at the register. As digital couponing rises in popularity, and today’s shoppers look for easier and more convenient ways to save money, this new feature provides customers with the option to receive paperless savings, giving them the choice to save the way they prefer.

 

5. Load more e-coupons to your CVS card from a fab new site  for no-clip grocery coupons called SavingStar. These are e-coupons on the items you buy everyday and you can load them to your grocery store card and/or your CVS card. There are over 24,000 stores that are partnering with SavingStar. Click Here to give this site a try!

 

6. Working the deals - read the Sunday CVS circular or check in at More With Less Today where I will list the EBC deals and the best sales.  The CVS circular will list the items that will give you ECB’s and you can check the weekly circular online at CVS.com. Those ECB’s will  print on your receipt with your purchase. Some items will be “free after extra bucks.” These are ideal for donating if your family will not use them.

 

Ask for a raincheck if the store is out of stock. The rainchecks never expire. Find a way to save your ECB’s and have them handy. The  ExtraBucks® rewards have an expiration date. I put them in an envelope in my purse and write the expiration date on the front of the envelope. If there is an item I need from CVS, I also write that on the front of the envelope.

 

 If you have more money in  ExtraBucks® rewards than you are spending, you will not get cash back for the difference so grab some inexpensive filler items before you check out.  Check the bottom of your CVS receipt as soon as you check out to be sure your  ExtraBucks® rewards printed. If it did not, notify the cashier and they can manually print it for you.

 

When you get rolling with this, you will learn to roll over your ECB’s. To “roll” an extra buck means to spend it at CVS on an item that will give you ExtraBucks® rewards  back.  You “roll” it into another  ExtraBucks® reward with a later expiration date while “purchasing” a free, or nearly free, product with your current ExtraBucks® reward you earned from an earlier transaction at CVS. See? The wheels are turning! You can do this! They will be calling you to star in a reality show too.

 

7. Use Manufacturer’s Coupons too - you can use ONE manufacturers coupon and ONE CVS coupon per item.  If you have a Crest coupon put out by the manufacturer and a Crest CVS coupon, you can use both of these for the toothpaste. If there is an  ExtraBucks® reward on the product, you get that too.  

 

A manufacturers coupon will have a UPC beginning with a 9 or a 5, and a CVS coupon UPC code will begin with a 4.  

 

If you want more coupons, use my FREE Grocery Coupon Database at the top of my website. Simply type in the manufacturer like “Yoplait” and you will be directed to all the coupons available. If there are printable coupons, you can print them right from my site!

 

8. Ring up separate transactions – some CVS coupons say “one per customer” and this means ”one per transaction.” If there are people behind you in line, maybe do two transactions. Any more than that and I get out of line and go to the back of the line. As George Costanza says” we are living in a society,” so be considerate.

 

If you get ECB’s on an item you know you can use after you have checked out, often it is easy to take an extra minute and go get the item right then and use the ECB you just got and check out again, rather than make another unnecessary trip. If you have your kids or husband with you, disregard this scenario.

 

9. Join Upromise and link your CVS card to your Upromise account. If you are already a member of Upromise, go to their website and make sure your CVS card is linked. Scan your UPromise keytag when you check out. You can have a few bucks put into a college savings account for free, each time to shop at CVS. Even if you just earn enough money for textbooks, when the time comes, you be be delighted to have this account. Upromise – Start Your Kid’s College Savings Today – Join Now


10. CVS Pharmacy will accept the “transfer your prescription” coupons from competitors. If you see Rite Aid or Target coupons to transfer a prescription. I spoke with my CVS manager and was told that CVS will accept these. If you see several of these coupons, use them one transaction at a time if you want to transfer more than 1 prescription. 

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