Strike Two for Coborns

Shopping at Coborn's for me is about as frustrating as figuring out this coupon

Warning: rant ahead

Strike One
Early February I got over $10 worth of groceries, had a coupon for 2 free cans of veggies with $10 purchase, no restrictions stated.  Of course there were more coupons and my total came down to about $5-6.  They didn't let me use the free coupon so I returned the canned veggies.  This would've been okay other than the fact that I've used the free item coupon before with over $10 total before coupons.  The cashier said they were told to hold the coupon to the end in case the total after coupons was under $10.

I stayed calm, maybe there was a policy change.  So I emailed their corporate a polite note to ask to clarify their coupon policy on Feb 6.  There was no response, just an automated acknowledgement of my email and

Walgreens Fail!

Thought I'd share with you that not all couponing trips are successful.  Yesterday I popped into Walgreens in Monti, got 2 Crest Pro-Health tubes that gives me back $3,000 points, intending to use my $5 RR on them. I get up to the register, flip through my wallet, and no RR!  There's now a line behind me and I look through again and realize that I left it at home, next to my camera from when I took a pic of it for this blog.  So I paid $5.00 for 2 after coupons.

I could've just said that I can't get this today and walk away.  But I felt the "cash register pressure" to be done with my transaction from the cashier and people behind me.  Next time, I'll be sure to check out at the cosmetics or photo counter to avoid this pressure.  

Luckily, I did find a few more of the $1 Crest coupons, so I'm going to make sure I put my RR into my wallet and try it again....maybe.