Saturday, May 7, 2011

Rite Aid trips 5/7/2011

Have I mentioned how much I love Rite Aid?

I went to 3 different Rite Aids today, did 5 separate transactions, and walked away with a bunch of stuff.

Rite Aid has Pampers on sale through today for $9.99, with a $2 +UP reward on each, limit 4.  There was a $1.50 off Pampers coupon in last Sunday's paper, of which I had 4.  My personal limit on the price of diapers is that I refuse to pay more than $5.  Since the little guy came home, I haven't paid more than $5 for a pack of diapers.  Some weeks you can't find diapers for that little, but that's why I have a small stockpile.  I try to keep a month's supply of diapers on hand at all times.  My supply has been dwindling, having not found any spectacular deals for a few weeks now.

I love Rite Aid and their surveys.  Almost every receipt I have gotten for at least a month now has had a survey code on it.  Complete the survey online, print a $3 off $15 purchase coupon.  $9.99 Pampers is most of that, so by stacking $3 off $15 coupons with the Pampers deal, I could score, and score pretty well, today.

4 of my 5 transactions had a single pack of Pampers, and enough other stuff that I had coupons for or that were otherwise good deals to get me up to $15.

Today I came home with:
4 jumbo packs of Pampers
2 bottles of Scope (at a friend's request, I didn't have a coupon, but they were on sale)
2 tubes of Crest toothpaste
2 quart bottles of Similac Ready To Feed
2 boxes, 10 count each, of Breathe Right strips
4 tubes of Desitin that I had a rain check for from MONTHS ago, the rain check gods smiled upon me today

In total, I paid Rite Aid $17.69 more, in cash and +UP rewards, than they gave me back in +UP rewards.  If we assume everything else was free, then I paid $4.43 a pack for Pampers.  $4.43 is higher than I'd like, but still below my maximum acceptable price for diapers.