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What Is the Price Match Guarantee at Walgreens?

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Price Match Guarantee at Walgreens

It is always so nice when one of your favorite stores offer price matching. After all, it allows you to get the best price while still shopping at your usual places. Many of us shop regularly at Walgreens. If you’re one of those shoppers, then do you know about the price match guarantee at Walgreens?

What is Price Matching?

Just to clarify, a price match guarantee means that a store says that if you can find the exact same item at another store at a lower price, then they will honor that lower price. Therefore, you can always get the lowest possible price on an item if you know these two things:

  • A store’s price matching guarantee rules
  • The lowest available price on an item in the area

There are always rules and regulations that limit price matching. Nevertheless, this can be a great way to save money on the items you regularly purchase. You can also use it to get the best deals on your rarer purchases, too.

Does Walgreens Have a Price Match Guarantee?

Not all stores offer price matching. Therefore, you have to check out each of your favorite stores to find out what they offer. Yes, there is a price match guarantee at Walgreens. However, it’s a limited guarantee

What Is the Price Match Guarantee at Walgreens?

According to their website, the price match guarantee at Walgreens says:

“Upon request, Walgreens stores will price match to Walgreens.com regular price.”

In other words, Walgreens in-store locations will honor their own online prices if the online price is lower than the in-store price.

For example, this Reddit user shared a deal, emphasizing that Walgreens would honor their online price in store.

Terms and Limitations of Walgreens Price Matching

In addition to only matching their own online prices, Walgreens stores have the following limitations on their price matching:

  • The item purchased in store must be EXACTLY the same as the one available for sale on Walgreens.com.
  • Certain price exclusions apply including online sales, price typos online, and pricing on a different day on the website.
  • Furthermore, they won’t price match on extra services inducing photo, pharmacy, vision, and health services.
  • If the item is not in stock in the store, then that’s too bad. You don’t get a rain check.

What to Do If You Believe You Should Get Price Matching

If you think that your purchase qualifies for Walgreens price match guarantee, then you should do the following things:

  • Bring the website up on your phone to show to the cashier at checkout. You may not use screenshots, printed snapshots of the website, or other version.
  • The cashier or another Walgreens team member will review and determine whether or not your purchase qualifies for the lower price.
  • If it does qualify, then you will receive the lower price immediately.

Note that you’re only allowed to use one price matching option per day.

As you can see, there are a lot of limitations to the price match guarantee at Walgreens. It’s great that they offer it at all, but it’s certainly not one of the best ones out there. Take the time to shop around to see if you can get a better price elsewhere. Since they won’t match their competitors, you might have to go shop at those other stores if you’re trying to stay frugal.

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Which Stores and Restaurants Are Open On Mother’s Day?

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When a holiday falls on a Sunday, it’s easy to get confused about which businesses are open that day. So, which stores and restaurants are open on Mother’s Day? Just about all of them are, as it’s a busy day for retailers and restaurants alike.

Restaurants

Most restaurants do a lot of business on Mother’s Day—they’re open but you should expect to run into crowds. Many offer special deals and promotions like free meals for moms. So it’s a good idea to make reservations in advance if you plan to treat mom to a meal.

Retailers

Barring any extenuating circumstances, all retailers are open on Mother’s Day, so you still have time for last-minute gift purchases.

Places open for business include florists, candy and chocolate stores, discount stores, department stores, specialty stores, drug stores, and supermarkets ranging in size from locally-owned small businesses to large chains like:

  • Albertsons
  • Costco
  • CVS
  • Kroger
  • Publix
  • Rite Aid
  • Safeway
  • Target
  • Trader Joe’s
  • Walmart
  • Walgreens
  • Whole Foods

That said, it still doesn’t hurt to call ahead to see whether stores near you are open on Mother’s Day. You might be able to find out by phone how crowded it is in the store so you can plan accordingly.

Retailers also offer a variety of discounts on Mother’s Day — click here for 50+ freebies and deals to help you celebrate mom on Mother’s Day.

Gas Stations

All gas stations that normally operate on Sundays should be open on Mother’s Day.

Financial Institutions

Since Mother’s Day always falls on a Sunday, that means most banks, credit unions, and brokerages are typically not open. However, branches located within supermarkets that have Sunday hours of operations, are an exception. Otherwise, you can still use ATMs and online banking even when your preferred financial institution is closed, although the actual transactions won’t go through until the next business day.

Post Offices

Since Mother’s Day always falls on a Sunday, that means no post offices are open. However, some postal locations keep their lobbies open seven days a week so you can buy stamps from machines and drop letters into the chutes. It doesn’t hurt to call ahead to confirm whether a self-serve lobby near will be open on Mother’s Day.

Yes, All Stores and Restaurants are Open on Mother’s Day

Yes, every retailer and restaurant you can think of is likely open on Sunday for Mother’s Day. Most of what you may want to do that day should be possible except, perhaps, for avoiding traffic.

Readers, what sort of plans are you making for Mother’s Day this year?

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Walgreens Holiday Hours and Schedule

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In a little over a week, we will be celebrating Thanksgiving with family and friends. Our stomachs will be filled with too much turkey, and our faces will hurt from laughing too much. While many of us may make plans to not leave the house, some of us will still need to run some errands. If you are needing prescription services from Walgreens, you’ll want to know the Walgreens holiday hours and schedule.

Walgreens store hours can differ from location to location and whether or not they have holiday hours may determine whether you decide to utilize their services. In addition to pharmacy care, though, Walgreens does also carry over-the-counter items, includes photo printing services, contact lens services, and sells a variety of products such as beauty and household items.

Walgreens regular store hours:

Many Walgreens stores are open year-round with several staying open 24 hours per day. For those that are not, typical store hours look something like this:

  • Monday:
    • Store hours: 8 a.m. – 10 p.m.
    • Pharmacy hours: 9 a.m. – 9 p.m.
  • Tuesday:
    • Store hours: 8 a.m. – 10 p.m.
    • Pharmacy hours: 9 a.m. – 9 p.m.
  • Wednesday:
    • Store hours: 8 a.m. – 10 p.m.
    • Pharmacy hours: 9 a.m. – 9 p.m.
  • Thursday:
    • Store hours: 8 a.m. – 10 p.m.
    • Pharmacy hours: 9 a.m. – 9 p.m.
  • Friday:
    • Store hours: 8 a.m. – 10 p.m.
    • Pharmacy hours: 9 a.m. – 9 p.m.
  • Saturday:
    • Store hours: 8 a.m. – 10 p.m.
    • Pharmacy hours: 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
  • Sunday:
    • Store hours: 8 a.m. – 10 p.m.
    • Pharmacy hours: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

What is Walgreens holiday hours and schedule?

Some locations may have extended or limited holiday hours. The upcoming holidays that most Walgreens will be open for include:

  • Thanksgiving Day
  • Black Friday
  • Christmas Eve
  • Christmas Day
  • New Year’s Eve

While the 24-hour brick-and-mortar sites will remain open with normal hours for Thanksgiving Day, the non-24 hour locations will have pharmacy services from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Some of the locations open 24/7 will also have around-the-clock pharmacy hours as well. Several chains will also plan to have store hours from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., as they would normally, on Thanksgiving.

Walgreens will operate under normal business hours on Black Friday, reopening their doors to customers at 8 a.m. and closing at 10 p.m. Pharmacy hours are expected to stay the same at most locations from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Shoppers who are Balance Rewards Members can anticipate store deals from Thursday through Sunday. When shopping online, use the code BLACK25 to receive 25% off from exclusive online deals. You can find more deals both online and offline through the Walgreens website here.

Online options:

As long as you do not need prescriptions filled, Walgreens does have online shopping options as well. If you know you won’t be able to stop in when they are open before and after the upcoming holidays, you can plan ahead and order from their online store any time. For those of you who are die hard Walgreens fans and refuse to shop elsewhere for quick over-the-counter needs and the like, this is perfect for you.

Of course, Walgreens holiday hours and schedule does depend upon location. To find out the schedule for a Walgreens near you, use their store locator on Walgreens.com or call them at 1-800-WALGREENS.

Are you a Walgreens fan? Will you be stopping there over the Thanksgiving holiday?

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Love and Hate at CVS: Minimum Wage Challenge

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I have a love-hate relationship with CVS. I love that I can get things there for free / nearly free (one of my goals for this minimum wage challenge is to try to get all of my personal care products for free this year, and using the CVS program will be a big part of making that happen), but it also seems to be a place where I have terrible dilemmas like whether or not it’s worthwhile buying tampons in order to get peanut butter. Today I needed to get a couple of sticks of deodorant (I had some coupons expiring which gave them to me for free) which wouldn’t seem to be an issue in most cases, but you have to realize what happened the last time I went into CVS to buy deodorant.

I walked in and headed to buy the deodorant when I noticed a woman who was having trouble reaching something she obviously wanted on an upper shelf a couple of aisles from where I was. To the rescue, I headed over and helped her get down some make-up tool that she was trying to reach.

Her: “Thank you. I hate when they put things up on the upper shelves.”

Me: “You’re welcome. Glad I could help. Have a wonderful day.” I began walking back to buy my deodorant while thinking, “wow, she was quite attractive. Maybe I should have tried to strike up some type of conversation…” My back was turned and I was walking away when I heard “hey!” from the end of the aisle in direction from where I had just come. I turned in mid-stride to see the woman wave with a big smile on her face.

Her: “Thanks again!”

Me: Still walking backward, I smile back. “No prob….” and promptly plowed directly into an in-aisle feminine protection display sending packages of pantyliners flying in all directions. I then spent the next ten minutes trying to clean up the mess I had just made as other customers walked by wondering why the hell there was a random grown man on his hands and knees picking up pantyliner packages in the middle of CVS.

As you can see, I’m quite the ladies man. For some unfathomable reason, the attractive lady was nowhere to be seen when I had finished cleaning up. Even worse, I was so flustered from the entire incident that I ended up leaving the store without buying the deodorant that I had gone there to buy.

So, you can see why I have a love-hate relationship with CVS. That being said, anyone that lives in an area where CVS, Walgreens or Rite-Aide exists should learn basic couponing techniques to save them a bundle on personal care products. Each drug store has a different way their program works and it will take a bit of effort and time to learn how each system works, but it’s well worth the time investment as it can literally save you hundreds of dollars a year on basic necessities. With just a bit of practice, you should be able to get the following things for free / nearly free

  • Shampoo
  • Conditioner
  • Body Soap
  • Toothpaste
  • Deodorant
  • Shaving cream
  • Razors
  • Over-the-counter medications

This is actually a short list of what you can get a most drug stores for free or nearly free. Anyone who is on a tight budget should take advantage of the deals that these drug stores provide for many of the basics that most people pick up at the grocery store for a premium price. Even with the occasional embarrassment which I only seem to be able to achieve, the savings more than makes up for it. You can learn more about how CVS works here to begin taking advantage of all the deals that they offer.

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