Giant Eagle's new coupon policy goes into effect today. I've highlighted the most important changes below. It seems their attempt at clarification only served to create more questions.
You can read the full policy here.
- One coupon per item(s) purchased as stated on the coupon with a maximum of 12 coupons per same 12 items purchased in a 24-hour period per Giant Eagle Advantage Card® customer.
- Stacking (combining electronic and paper coupons) of manufacturers’ coupons is prohibited.
- If you forget to use your coupons at the time of purchase, we will accept them with your receipt and Giant Eagle Advantage Card® up to 10 days beyond the date on the receipt.
- Coupon value cannot exceed the price of the item(s) purchased. If it does, we can only redeem up to the value of the item(s) purchased. (Excluding sales tax) (NO OVERAGES WILL BE GIVEN)
- INTERNET PRINTABLES: A maximum of two “like” coupons will be accepted.
Obviously there needs to be some clarification on some of the wording, but until I can get some clarification from Giant Eagle, I am taking everything here at face value, and will be posting my deals accordingly.
The second bullet on the policy says, "Stacking (combining electronic and paper coupons) of manufacturers’ coupons is prohibited."
Does that mean we cannot use Giant Eagle's ecoupons and cellfire coupons with paper ones? If that's the case, I probably won't bother with ecoupons anymore.
I saw this and I don't know if it's new or not. See the bold part. This says to me that printed coupons will not be doubled. Or was this there before?
Redeem any manufacturer’s coupon with a valid expiration date, worth up to and including the stated maximum amount clipped from newspapers, magazines or received by mail and we’ll double the savings. This offer applies only to manufacturer product “cents-off” coupons for items and sizes we carry.
As far as I understand it, IP Coupons will still be doubled. However, you can longer stack ecoupons with paper coupons.
Any clarification on the term "like" coupons??? IMO, $0.40 off 6 yogurts and $0.60 off 8 yogurts are not "like" coupons even though they are both for yogurt. Wonder how the stores will interpret this…
I definitely have the same question as Rita. If the answer is we can no longer use Giant Eagle ecoupons and a paper coupon – which will the computer use if somebody has both?
I have several computers and use a lot of ip coupons….think I will check out Buehlers!
I say ecoupons really don't have much reason to exist anymore. I'm unclipping them all and will only use them it that very rare case where there is no paper version.