Comments on: If you scan one coupon, you scan them all

By: mbhunter

mbhunter — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:20:50 +0000

Laura: No, not usually, because it’s illegal.

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:17:34 +0000

I wish coupons could be redeemed for cash … lol… Is there anyone doing that?

By: diamonds

diamonds — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:18:38 +0000

My last trip to Costco resulted in the same – didn’t even need the coupon, cashier looked and saw I had a coupon and just clicked a button and poof – money saved. Very cool!

By: Alan Schram

Alan Schram — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:01:09 +0000

This makes me question whether or not it was even a coupon. There are two types of discounts. Manufacturer’s rebates and Costco coupons. The rebates come off automatically. The coupons need to be scanned.

When I worked there, we had to scan them. At times we had copies of the flier up at the tills to make scanning them easier, but they took that privilege away from us because our coupon percentage was too high. As in, when a company agrees to let us discount something (put it on coupon), they are expecting a number of sales to go through without the coupon discount. If our coupon sales are at 100%, companies get mad at Costco, etc.

So perhaps the “automatic” coupons were just manufacturer’s rebates, not coupons (though they will appear like coupons in the seasonal fliers/handouts).

By: Aryn

Aryn — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:36:10 +0000

The cashier at Costco told me we don’t even have to bring in our coupons yet (although I would to make sure I bought the right thing.) Just tell them you have coupons and they can scan something right there on the register.

By: Little Miss Moneybags

Little Miss Moneybags — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:18:19 +0000

I noticed that too! Well, actually, I thought that the cashier had superfast ninja coupon-scanning skills or that perhaps I’d been abducted by aliens and returned one second later.

Your explanation makes a LOT more sense.

By: Alan Schram

Alan Schram — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:15:56 +0000

Wow, I didn’t know that Costco did that now. I used to work at Costco, about three years ago, and when I worked there we had to scan each coupon individually. And trust me, there were a LOT of times where we would miss coupons, and members would come back and ask us to fix it.

Of course, after the transaction is complete, we can’t do anything about it, so we had to just send them to Member Services to get a refund, which wasted both the member’s time and our time. So this is quite brilliant.

I guess my question would be, do you still have to scan the one coupon? Or do they just come off without any scanning whatsoever?

By: Money Beagle

Money Beagle — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:13:21 +0000

Yes, if you look at the back all the barcode numbers are the same. I think that this is a great feature. I used to be one that wouldn’t bother clipping the coupons beforehand, so I’d be walking around the store tearing them out one by one. If anything, they probably got tired of the mess created by people like me!

One thing that puzzles me about Costco is that there is usually a gap between when one set of coupons expire and a new one begins. I wonder why they don’t run them for a full month at a time.

By: Coupon Artist

Coupon Artist — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:00:54 +0000

What a nice feature! I wonder if they did this because more people are using coupons with the economy the way that it is. The ease of this system should definitely encourage everyone to clip at least that 1 coupon to activate it.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:27:20 +0000

At my Costco you don’t have to scan any coupons, they just automatically take the amount off. Although they do ask if any of your items have coupons, I guess to make sure the computer gets it.