In many ways Rite Aid’s rewards program and coupon policy outdoes its competitors. If you’re on the fence, wondering whether it’s time you mastered the art of shopping at Rite Aid, take my advice and don’t delay another day. With every week that goes by, you’re missing out on more and more krazy bargains!
Wellness+ Card
Sign up for the free Rite Aid Wellness+ card at RiteAid.com. Each time you shop, use your phone number or hand your Wellness+ card to the cashier. In addition to special savings, using the Wellness+ card will qualify you to receive +Up Rewards (more info below) and save you an additional 10% on Rite Aid brand products everyday.
In-Ad Coupons
Rite Aid in-ad coupons can be found in the weekly sales circular in the Sunday paper and near the entrance of your local Rite Aid store. These are store coupons with the sequence RC49 preceding the numerals under the barcode. Rite Aid coupon policy calls these “Rite Aid Manufacturer Coupons”. (It’s like a coupon contradiction: Is it a Rite Aid store coupon or a manufacturer coupon?) Rest assured these are store coupons.
Video Values
Rite Aid Video Values, otherwise known as adperk videos, are short commercial videos (aprox 0:30-3:00 min) that you may watch at RiteAid.com. After watching each video, a corresponding coupon will be added to your rewards account, which you can print immediately or save for up to one-two months.
Video Values coupons are store coupons, but, confusingly enough, they have “manufacturer coupon” printed across the top. But don’t worry; Rite Aid specifically separates these coupons in their coupon policy. The important piece of information to look for on these coupons is the numeral sequence RC49 beneath the coupon’s barcode.
Video Values coupons are meant to be printed and redeemed once. Multiple copies or sharing of Video Values coupons is against Rite Aid policy.
+Up Rewards
+UP Rewards are coupons that print at the bottom of your receipt which are valid on a future shopping order. Look for +Up Reward deals when browsing through the Rite Aid sales circular or viewing the weekly deals on TheKrazyCouponLady.com. Purchase the participating product with your Wellness+ card, hand over all your coupons, pay for the shopping order, and then look at the bottom of your receipt to see the +Up Rewards.
One of my favorite things about the Rite Aid +Up Program is that oftentimes, there is no stated limit on a +Up Reward deal. Where at CVS you’d usually be limited to one or two of a promo item for an entire week, Rite Aid generally allows you to purchase more. Please remember that Rite Aid reserves the right to limit quantities, but even if they don’t, it’s important to be courteous to your fellow shoppers by leaving some product for everyone else. Sometimes +Up Reward will carry a limit; often the limit will be two. Here’s an example:
The product: Colgate Sensitive Toothpaste $3.50
The promo: Buy 1, Receive $3.50 +Up Reward, limit 2Buy 2 Colgate Sensitive Toothpaste $3.50
Use two $1.00/1 Colgate manufacturer coupons
Pay: $5.00, Receive two $3.50 +Up Rewards
Final Price: $2.00 money maker!
Even though the cashier didn’t open his til and hand you two crisp $1.00 bills, you’re receiving +Up Rewards, which hold a value greater than the $5.00 you paid for the entire shopping order. We call this a moneymaker! In the above example, you can also see that we redeemed a manufacturer coupon against the toothpastes, and we still received the full value +Up Reward. You may redeem both manufacturer and store coupons against these products without affecting the value of the +Up Reward. Sometimes you can even get your out of pocket total down to nearly zero, and the +Up Rewards still print right out!
+Up Rewards may be redeemed on any item in the store, even a gallon of milk (exclusions include prescriptions, alcohol, and lottery tickets). Multiple +Up Rewards can be redeemed in one shopping order as long as the total value of +Up Rewards does not make the subtotal drop below zero. +Up Rewards generally will “roll”, meaning that if you use a +Up Reward which printed after the purchase of Colgate Toothpaste to buy another toothpaste, you’ll still get another +Up Reward. BUT, there is no need to “roll” these +Up Rewards since Rite Aid’s computer system will print multiple rewards on one receipt. You can purchase both toothpastes in one transaction and receive two +Up Rewards.
Stacking Coupons
Rite Aid coupon policy allows the customer to use more than one coupon per item as long as the total of the coupons is equal to or less than the price of the product, before sales tax. The best part about stacking coupons at Rite Aid is that you are allowed to use three (yes, three!) coupons per item! Here’s a quote straight from the policy:
No more than
- one “48” Rite Aid Valuable coupon,
- one “49” Rite Aid Manufacturer coupon, and
- one “5” Manufacturer coupon can be used on a single item.
Now you see why it’s important to look at the first numerals along the barcode on your coupon! You can use these numerals to determine how many coupons can be redeemed against one item! And, if you can believe it, this gets even better! You can also redeem +Up Rewards and use a coupon such as $5 off $20 purchase!
LIMITS: So, Rite Aid isn’t throwing money at us like the lottery. They do impose some limits for shoppers to work around. Rite Aid limits shoppers to no more than four identical coupons in one shopping order. Quantities allowed are up to the store manager’s sole discretion.
Buy One, Get One Free Coupons
Shoppers used to be able to stack a BOGO coupon with a BOGO sale at Rite Aid in order to get two products for free. Rite Aid’s updated policy no longer allows this practice. In regards to BOGO coupons specifically, the policy states,
. . . only one coupon can be used for each pair of items purchased. A customer can use one “cents off” coupon in conjunction with the item they are purchasing on a Buy One Get One Free promotion (or with a Buy One Get One Free coupon), although the value of the cents off coupon cannot exceed the selling price of the item.
Buy 2 Special K Cereal $5.00
Buy 1, Get 1 Free store promotion
Use 1 $1.00/1 manufacturer coupon
Final Price: $2.00 each, when you buy 2
It would have been great to have been able to use two manufacturer coupons, or to have used a BOGO manufacturer coupon, but since the policy specifically prohibits this, we will be happy to use one manufacturer coupon for every two items when they are part of a BOGO sale.
Single Check Rebates
Now don’t tune me out just because you read the word “rebate”. Banish those ideas about clipping barcodes and licking envelopes. Rite Aid’s rebate program is so simple: no clipping, no licking, no stamping! Simply enter a few digits into the computer after your shopping trip, and wait for a check to arrive!
Create a Single Check Rebate account at RiteAid.com. Don’t worry if you forget to set up the account before you go shopping. It’s okay to create the account when you return home. You may even be eligible for rebates on a few weeks’ worth of past receipts if you’ve still got ‘em!
Rite Aid releases a new batch of rebates every month. Each week Rite Aid’s weekly ad will feature a handful of the month’s rebates; you can find a full list of current rebates at RiteAid.com. You may use coupons to pay for the purchase of the qualifying rebate product(s), and you will still receive the full value rebate.
After you return home, I recommend that you hop right on the computer to enter the info from your receipt into the Single Check Rebate system. All the rebates for each of your shopping trips over the course of each month are stored in the system. At the end of the month, you can simply request that your rebate be mailed to you. (Don’t worry — if you forget to request the rebate, it’ll still be sent, just a few weeks late.)
Pay attention to the limits on each rebate offer. Most rebates have a limit of one or two per account.
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