When couponing, overage can happen - and it's a wonderful thing! Overage is when your coupons total more than the item's price. Overage is a gift, not a right - shoppers are not entitled to overage. Some stores allow overage, some don't. Some stores/cashiers don't even realize its happening when completing your transaction. The most important thing to remember when shopping and expecting overage is to make sure you have items in your cart to use up your overage in your transaction because a cashier will never give you money out of the register when your balance is negative! You don't want to be scrambling at the register to throw in packs of gum and candy bars to get you out of the negative. Use up the overage on things that you need or don't have coupons for.
The best way to get overage when using store and manufactuer coupons is to hand over the manufacturer coupons first. Store coupons take the amount off each individual item resulting in the value being lowered. Manufacturer coupons come off the total value of the complete sale and therefore won't effect the price of individual items.
Another way to make money with transactions is when you get Catalina coupons (also called Register Rewards @ Walgreens) at the register. These are usually coupons for a certain value off your next shopping trip. I will go into more detail on Catalinas and Register Rewards later.
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