Wow, I have an incredible moneymaker opportunity at CVS! One of my readers, Cristina, tipped me off that she bought a few L’Oreal hair color products on clearance for $2.57 and they counted towards the ECB deal, even though the ad says the deal excludes clearance! I was skeptical, so I went to CVS to see if I could do the deal. I went armed with five $5/2 L’Oreal Hair Color coupons from the 1/1 RP newspaper insert.
I found a lot of products with 50% off tags, but none of them had the 75% discount I was hoping to find. So I decided to doublecheck the prices by taking them over to the Red Coupon Machine (you can price-check there.) I found that almost all of them were ringing up 75% off, even though the shelf tags didn’t say so.
I bought 11 products for a total of about $26. I used the five $5/2 coupons and only paid about $1 plus tax. Then, lo’ and behold, a $10 ECB printed on my receipt, for a $9 moneymaker. Had I been better prepared, I would have brought an extra $2/1 L’Oreal Hair Color (which was also in the 1/1 RP newspaper insert) or a $1/1 L’Oreal Root Rescue printable coupon available here. Then they would have needed to adjust the last coupon down and it would have been a full $10 moneymaker!
Also, while you’re there, you may want to take your $2/1 Any Almay Cosmetic coupons from the 1/1 SS newspaper insert. Another reader tipped me off tha some Almay Mascaras were marked down to $2.09 (75% off), making them only 9 cents each with the newspaper coupon!
Wow…speechless!
This deal is gone now, but you can still grab some prints of current Printable Coupons, or visit our incredible CVS Shopping Trip in our “Haul of Fame”. Finally, head on over to Amazon in search of grocery deals.