Free Carmel or Toffee Popcorn

[CurtisBeers]

I went to the ECB scanner today and got a $2.00 coupon off any 2 Gold Emblem nut items.
The Carmel and Toffee Popcorn with Peanuts is on sale for $1.00 each.
Using that $2.00 coupon from the ECB scanner makes them FREE.
I hope I get one of these each time I go in like I did with the $1.00 off 2 boxes of CVS tissues.
I used the $1.00 off any Absolutely Divine cookies that are on sale for $2.19 this week (normally $3.99) making them $1.19.

[cathym]

What's the ECB scanner?

[kteach99]

Originally Posted by cathym

What's the ECB scanner?

We usually fondly call it the CSO, which stands for the "coupon spitter outer". It is a red (sometimes blue) price scanner machine that can be located anywhere in the store (sometimes a store has 2 of them). You can scan an item to do a price check, AND scan your CVS card to get coupons. Be sure to scan it multiple times, because sometimes it will spit out additional sets of coupons. You know you are done when you get the "no coupons available today" message. Ask a cashier if you cannot find the machine. The $2 off 2 CVS nut q referred to will likely spit out every day for a week or 2. You can also use those q's on the snack size bags of Gold Emblem nuts which are 99 cents each, meaning you can get 2 bags free with each q. I have a ton of those nuts from previous times this q came out, which it seems to do about once a month or so. HTH.

[Live4Coupons]

Originally Posted by kteach99

We usually fondly call it the CSO, which stands for the "coupon spitter outer". It is a red (sometimes blue) price scanner machine that can be located anywhere in the store (sometimes a store has 2 of them). You can scan an item to do a price check, AND scan your CVS card to get coupons. Be sure to scan it multiple times, because sometimes it will spit out additional sets of coupons. You know you are done when you get the "no coupons available today" message. Ask a cashier if you cannot find the machine. The $2 off 2 CVS nut q referred to will likely spit out every day for a week or 2. You can also use those q's on the snack size bags of Gold Emblem nuts which are 99 cents each, meaning you can get 2 bags free with each q. I have a ton of those nuts from previous times this q came out, which it seems to do about once a month or so. HTH.

OMG, I love those $2/2 Gold Emblem nut Qs. As you said, they seem to appear every few weeks, and usually generate every day for a week if you stop in and scan your card. For me, these Qs are worth stopping in at the store just to scan my card. I like to save a few of them up, in hopes that I'll get a $/$ Q to use. The free nuts make great filler items to help me get to a particular $ threshold needed for the $/$ Qs.

Don't know if it's just circumstance, but the pattern I've noticed (at least for my ExtraCare card) is that the "standard" weekly Qs (usually a set of two particular Qs) will generate pretty much every day for a week, with the week starting on Monday. Sometimes Sundays are a "no coupons today" scanner day for me, though. Mondays also tend to be the day when I get a few specific product Qs for particular items (like toothpaste, deodorant, some meds, etc.). Today I got 8 different specific item Qs (4 Qs on the first scan ($5/$10 CVS Vitamin purchase; $1 off Coffeemate 16 oz. or new Coffeemate French Vanilla; $1.50 on 1 Axe Deodorant or Body Spray; $1 off Colgate Visible White toothpaste), 4 on the second scan ($2 on any Huggies Little Swimmers; $1 off any Reach Floss; $2 off any Huggies Baby Wipes tub or refill; $1 off any ThermaCare item)), then the last scan was for the $2/2 GE nuts and another for $2 off any CVS brand purchase of $10). Oh, and I rarely get the $/$$ purchase Qs at the CSO. Other people have far better luck with getting these Qs than I do.

If the usual pattern holds true, I'll get the GE nuts and $2 off CVS brand purchase Qs every day if I scan my card. The Qs for the nuts alone are worth the stop. This time of year, they make great stocking stuffers and little extras to add to gift baskets - nuthin' like getting free cashews!