Here are the Rite Aid basics that you need to know. Starting off shopping at Rite Aid can be quiet overwhelming, just understand the abbreviations can be difficult. I am going to take you through this step by step, at the end you should be a Rite Aid PRO!
Rite Aid has a weekly ad just like every other store, there are some important things to remember when looking at their ad.
What are these?
1.) +UP rewards:
Rite Aid’s +UP rewards look like this, and they print off the end of your receipt after you have paid. You can use these as cash off your next order. The entire about has to be used in one transaction, they will not give you change if your +UP reward is bigger than your order total.
You can find which items will give you +UP rewards from their weekly ad, you can see that this particular week Motrin PM has a +UP reward of $2. You can use Manufacturer coupons and Store coupons with an item that has a +UP reward. The weekly ad told us in this picture, that we would be getting a $1 manufacturer coupon in Sunday’s paper to make this FREE! You can use +UP rewards to pay for other items right away. I stand at the register and rip off my +UP rewards to pay for the next transaction, I will sometimes do this up to 3 or 4 times just to keep my out of pocket costs lower.
Unlike Walgreens Register Rewards, you may use +UP rewards to pay for the same item that you just received the +UP rewards from. Consider the Motrin PM above: You could take the $2 +UP reward that you earned from the 1st bottle purchased, purchase another bottle and pay with the $2 +UP reward you just received.
Many times the ad will inform you of a limit, this would be an amount of items that you can purchase and receive the +UP reward back. You can still purchase the items at the sale price, but will not be receiving the +UP rewards back after the limit is reached.
2.) Single Check Rebates (I refer to them as SCR)
You can also find these in your weekly ad, they will look like this.
You can also use manufaturer and store coupon on SCR deal to make the deal even better! A SCR is a rebate that you will get back at the end of every month. Everytime you purchase an item that has a Single Check Rebate with it, you will need to input the information to your receipt to qualify for the money back. You can insert as many receipts with SCR items on them as you want throughout the month, but can only request ONE rebate check at the end of the month. Follow these steps below if this is your first time putting receipts into the SCR system.
1.) Go to Riteaid.com
2.) Sign up for a Rite Aid Wellness Plus card. If you already have one get it out to do the next step.
3.) Create an account, or log into your account.
- They will ask you for your Store card when you sign up for the first time.
You will click on this when you have an item that qualifies for a SCR. You will sign into your Single Check Rebate account, or create a new one.
5.)You will need to enter your receipts in here, it will look like this. You can find all the information at the top of your Rite Aid receipt.
Once you have entered in your receipts, you will get an email within 2-3 days letting you know that your account has been updated. Log back into your account and you will see that you have received your rebate.
6.) At the end of the month, log back into your SCR account to request your check.
- Checks usually take 1-2 weeks to get to you. They can either be cashed at your local bank, or you can use them right at the checkout at Rite Aid like cash. The only difference is that you cannot get change back if your total is less than the amount of the SCR check, so plan accordingly.
What are Video Values Coupons?
These are Rite Aid coupons that you get from watching short video clips from Rite Aid’s website, you can sign up for a Video Values account here. These are store coupons and may be using combined with Manufaturer coupons.There are some things to remember about these coupons:
- You watch 1 video and receive a coupon for watching the video.
- You can use only one Video Value coupon per product, per month. You cannot print out multiple copies of these coupons, they will not work and will say ‘previously used’ at the register.
- You can use them along with one Manufacturer coupon per item.
- You cannot use them with an in-ad Rite Aid coupon. (They both begin with numbers RT149, which means the computer views them as the same sort of coupon)
- These expire the month after you have watched them, and new videos come out every month.
