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Dollar General vs Family Dollar
Both Dollar General and Family Dollar offer a digital $5.00 off $25.00 coupon practically every week. I really like both of these deals, but each stores’ coupon policy is extremely different.
Dollar General is by far my favorite of the two stores’ coupon policies. Their policy sta
At first glance, many people think it doesn’t matter which coupons come off first, but it really does matter.
Practically every Saturday Dollar General offers a $5.00 off $25.00 coupon. These can be found in their digital coupons, and on the bottoms of last week’s receipts.
I try to go in at least twice a month with the goal of spending $25.00. This is the
Typically I buy things that are needed at home, like toilet paper, shampoo, medicine, dish detergent, laundry detergent, and clearance items.
I try to have a coupon for the majority of things I am buying.
Once I reach my $25.00 limit, I head to the register. When the clerk starts ringing my items through I go to the credit card machine and choose the DG button. I put in my phone number and all of my digital coupons are pulled up and deducted if I made that purchase.
The first coupon that comes off is the $5.00 off $25.00 coupon, then all of my other coupons are deducted. In theory, my total could go all the way down to just the tax if I have the right coupons.
For example:
- toilet paper $6.99 with a $1.00 coupon
- dish detergent $2.99 with a $1.00 coupon
- medicine $5.99 with a $3.00 coupon
- diapers $7.49 with a $3.00 coupon
- two candy bars $1.00 each with a BOGO coupon
- Total before coupons $25.46
- DG coupon $5.00 off
- toilet paper coupon $1.00 off
- dish detergent coupon $1.00 off
- medicine coupon $3.00 off
- diapers coupon $3.00 off
- candy bar coupon $1.00 off
This brings the total down from $25.46 to $11.46. Taxes do apply though. Dollar General requires that I be at the $25.00 mark after tax, but before any coupons have been deducted.
Family Dollar’s coupon policy states the opposite of Dollar General’s. They actually take all of the manufacturer coupons off first, and then Family Dollar coupons are deducted.
- toilet paper $6.99 with a $1.00 coupon
- dish detergent $2.99 with a $1.00 coupon
- medicine $5.99 with a $3.00 coupon
- diapers $7.49 with a $3.00 coupon
- two candy bars $1.00 each with a BOGO coupon
- Total before coupons $25.00
- toilet paper coupon $1.00 off
- dish detergent coupon $1.00 off
- medicine coupon $3.00 off
- diapers coupon $3.00 off
- candy bar coupon $1.00 off
At this
I could add in more merchandise in order to get my total up to $25.00 after coupons, and then they will subtract the $5.00 off $25.00 purchase coupon, which will bring my total down to $20.00, plus tax.
Family Dollar is a great place to save an extra $5.00 when you don’t have any coupons to match up with things you need to buy, but Dollar General is definitely the place to go if you are using manufacturer coupons along with their $5.00 off deal.
If you only use digital coupons without any paper coupons at all, then Family Dollar deals work exactly the same as the Dollar General deals do!
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