If you haven’t noticed, your local drugstores are battling each other to get your business both in the prescription and non-prescription areas of the store. You can use this not-so-friendly rivalry to your advantage by learning how to work the drugstore rebate programs, and actually get paid to shop!
CVS/Pharmacy has an ExtraCare Program.
Each customer must sign up for a free ExtraCare card. The cashier scans your card before each purchase. CVS has certain items on sale each week that will produce an instant rebate, called “ExtraCare Bucks”(ECBs). Buy any of these items and a coupon for the rebate amount will appear instantly on your receipt. You use the coupon just like cash at CVS, and you can immediately redeem it on your next purchase! (They do expire in about thirty days, though.)
To make a profit, first purchase an item that will be “free” after ExtraCare Bucks – in other words, if it costs $2.99, you will get $2.99 back in ECBs. If you have a manufacturer’s coupon for $1 off that item, you only pay $1.99 and still get back the $2.99 in ECBs. Thus, you have made a dollar!
Then, you can turn around and rip those ECBs off of your receipt and use them to pay for your next purchase.
You will also want to go to and register your ExtraCare card with your email address, because CVS will often email valuable coupons to their ExtraCare cardholders, resulting in even more savings.
You can easily save or even earn money on products you already need and use. Just grab your weekly store ads this week and do a little planning before you head out to the store, and you’ll soon be reaping the benefits of this rebate program!
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Jenny Rapson is a coupon-crazed SAHM of two who writes about her adventures in motherhood an couponing at Mommin' it up!
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