FEBREZE HOME COLLECTION PRODUCTS AT STORE A
FEBREZE HOME COLLECTION PRODUCTS AT STORE B
Take a look at these two pictures above, notice anything?
Yep, that’s a whopping $1.50 difference on each product from the top picture at Store A to the bottom picture at Store B. Now, that might seem normal if one store was in Florida and another was in California, but that’s not the case here. These two stores are just within a few miles of one another!
How you structure your Febreze deal is going to vary significantly based on the prices you find. I had laid out my plan based on store B but decided to shop at store A. Although I was happier to see lower prices, I had to change my plans!
Remember, we are trying to hit $20 in Febreze Home Collection Products so we can apply for the $10 MIR and we need to hit $10 in each transaction to get the $2 RR. If you find prices similar to store B (the pricier store) you can use the scenario HERE.
If you find prices similar to store A ( the lower priced store) you can do this…
Buy
1 – Febreze Flameless Luminary $11.24
Use
1 – $5 Febreze Flameless Luminary Home Mailer
Total = $6.24, Get Back $2 RR
Cost = $4.24
Buy
1 – Febreze Soy Candle or Reed Diffuser $7.49
1 – Febreze Reed Diffuser $7.49
Total = $14.98
Use
1 – $5/1 Febreze Soy Candle Home Mailer
1 – $5/1 Febreze Reed Diffuser Home Mailer
Total = 4.98, Get Back $2 RR
Cost = $2.98
Submit for the $10/$20 Febreze Home Collection Rebate HERE.
=$2.78 MONEY MAKER!
My suggestion is be prepared to adjust. Remember you need $20 in Febreze Home Collections Products (before coupons) for the rebate and $10 in each transaction for the $2 Register Reward. And be sure to bring your calculator! 😉
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holy price gouging batman! thanks for this heads up! I never realized that the prices would be that different for stores within the same area! Ok Ive been putting it off…guess I better go ahead and make my price sheets!
Went to one in Jax Florida and got 3 candles.They were cheaper at this store than one that was 2 miles away.I had $3.00 coupons for each one and expiring wags to use up.I only paid .72 cents
My Wags are the same way. They are in the same town and they have different prices, all I have noticed so far is the Listerine was 50c more at one store than the other and the mini reeses are 5c more at the other store. I don’t really understand it but maybe it is just locations or something.
I didn’t get this home mailer, so I’m not bothering with the rebate.
I did do this though.
Purchased
2 Febreze Fabric Refresher @ $4.49 each
and 1 Febreze Air Effects @ $2.46
and 1 10pk Penway pencils @$.19
My total was $11.63
I used:
-$1/1 Febreze Fabric Refresher, Any – P&G’s Home Made Simple Booklet
-B1G1 Febreze Fabric Refresher (Home Mailer)
-B1 Febreze Fabric Refresher Get 1 Febreze Air Effects Free (to $3.29) 07-04-10 PG
$3 RR
My OOP was $.68 and I got back $2 RR
Check prices though.
I noticed some price differences last week when I was at the two Walgreens in my city. The small neutrogena that was 99 cents was 1.49 at one of the stores! That is more than 30% higher at one store than the other!
We have 4 stores in our surrounding area and all of them have different prices, with at most a difference of $1.50!
Oh and one store had Old Spice deo for $4.99…and another had it for something like $7.29!
What I notice in my area is the 24hr walgeens are always higher than the non 24hr stores . Like the 2.99 Kiss nails at 24hr store is 3.49 . I have noticed this on almost every item other than a advertised price like the socks or the John Freida Shampoo .
My Wags are the same (in Chicago). It appears to be different for each zipcode, even though there are so many people that this means within a mile there are 3 different zip codes near my home, all with different prices. It’s odd.
Same here. Two Wags in our town. They are perhaps 3-4 miles apart. Prices differ slightly on some items between the stores.
According to my calculations, doing the rebate would be less than a $1.50 MM with tax and postage. Not great but not bad. Thanks OP.
FWIW, In East Central Fla, I pass 7 -10 Wags regularly and pop in to all at some time or other. I’ve asked for price scans on items that are waaaay different and they scan at the sale or cheaper price. Dunno. Maybe just lack of sale signage? Also Wags in my area are undergoing re-sets and some reflect old pricingh. Everything’s moved around! Hrmph!
over a 100 in my metropolitan area and the ones I usually go to have the same prices, and like another person said, the 24 hour stores have some things 50 cents more.
I noticed this same scenerio at 2 Wags a mere mile apart. One store didn’t have the advertised 25% off Febreeze products, but they still rang up at 25% off…so check to see what they’re ringing up as, because it’s in the ad that select Febreeze products are to be 25% off.
There are eight Walgreens Stores in Corpus Christi. Five of the stores have the same regular prices and the other three have the same higher prices. All of the items in the eight stores are delivered by the same two trucks. All of the items come from the same two warehouses, one in Houston, Texas and the other in Waxahachie, Texas. I have been asking for about a year about the regular and higher price differences. I got about as many different answers to my questions as there are managers and assistant managers. Then this past week I got the real answer, or though I thought. It’s a matter of local demographics. I live in that part of town where people are educated, work as professionals, and many are small business owners. Get an education, get a good job, and own and operate your own business ,and Walgreens will make you pay higher prices when you shop your nearby store. That wasn’t too hard to swallow; my property taxes are higher, my home is more than what we need, the swimming pool is too hot by mid-august, and we eat out at least three times a week.
But I’m a power coupon shopper, and I shop at seven of the Walgreens Stores multiple times per week. Here’s what I also found out about the other three stores with the same higher prices. It’s NOT a matter of local demographics. One of the stores is located in a part of town where high school dropout and teen pregnancy rates exceed 25%, the working class is blue collar and both parents work just to feed, cloth, and provide shelter for their large families, and very, very few own small businesses. Drop out of school, start having children when you’re thirteen and have a family of four before you’re twenty-one, work at minimum wage job part time, and more often that not spend your assistance check to help feed your family, and Walgreens will make you pay higher prices in your neighborhood store.
If anyone has a better reason or has better Walgreens Management response to the higher prices question, please let us hear what you have heard. Last week when Equal Sweetener was 2/$5, the regular price was $2.99 at one store and $3.49 at the other less than one mile away. Here’s the math: Store B was 17% higher than Store A’s regular price. I love shopping at Walgreens; but I have learned to shop very carefully.
I have the same issue in Albuquerque with stores that are within a mile of each other being at least $1 different. Makes it hard to plan a smooth transaction when you don’t know what price you are going to pull out of the hat.
I asked one manager and she said it was the demographics, the other manager I asked said his price was higher because the other store had the old pricing. That would mean that 3 out of 4 stores are on old pricing?!
Again, it’s a Wags thing and we will never know why since they make up the rules as they go.
I have several Wags near me. The closest one is always $.30 – $.70 higher than the others. The cashier told me it is a regional thing. My neighborhood is considered higher income.