So I received an e-mail this week from a reader titled “Pain In The Neck Couponer.” I was intrigued because most people who read my blog ARE couponers, so to be frustrated with one of our own in the store is fairly unusual. Due to my own coupon usage, I am usually okay being behind someone in line who is using a stack of coupons. I never know if I might pick up a few tips.
But after I read her e-mail I could totally understand her frustration. The basic theme of her e-mail was that she was constantly ending up behind a customer in line at her local store who was trying to use multiple manufacturer’s coupons on one item. So I thought to help with her frustration I would do a short post on coupon stacking.
Coupon stacking is when you can use more than one coupon on an item. And this can be a great money saving tool. However (with some very rare exceptions) you can only stack coupons if one of them is a store coupon and one is a manufacturers coupon.
One great example is Target. Target has their own online coupons- they say Target Web Coupon [1] on the top. They are only accepted at Target. You can take one of the Target coupons and combine it with a regular manufacturer’s coupon. In that instance you can use two coupons on one item.
So let’s say you grab two copies of the Sunday paper. Inside each there is a coupon for $1 off Colgate toothpaste. When you go to the store you can not use two of those coupons from the newspaper on one tube of toothpaste. If you want to use both you will need to purchase 2 tubes of toothpaste.
Some other popular places to coupon stack are Rite Aid, Walgreens and CVS.
Hopefully this will clear up any misconceptions about coupon stacking. If you have any questions just leave a comment on this post and I will try to answer them!