Walgreens

Walgreens has started (well started a while back) their own bonus dollar type of deal called Register Rewards.

The good side:

No card needed. The money back is printed up at the end of your transaction which means you can keep going back and cashing in on the same deal.

Walgreens has more convenient hours (ie I can go on my way to work since CVS doesn't open until 8 am and I am already at work by then).

The bad side:

Because you can cash in so much, the items sell out FAST!

Register rewards are only good for 1-2 weeks!! Yes you read that correctly. What that means is that you can't really stock pile them.

They do not typically have items where you get equal amounts of rr back. CVS typically has one or more a week.

The selection of items that have register rewards is quite limited and what you get back isn't close to what you spend on SOME things. Others are not so bad.

So here and there you can find good deals. Two weeks ago they had six items that were $3 with $3 back in rewards. The issue is these past two weeks, not really anything good with the rewards (ie buy a $10 get $3 back) and I am sure they planned it that way.

All in all, I will probably use them but not as much as CVS. Maybe keep $3 - $5 in rewards around but not more than that since it would be a waste of money. Hopefully they step it up a bit and it gets a bit better.