Before shopping at either of these stores be sure to check out their sales add. They can be found on line at www.familydollar.com and www.dollargeneral.com and there you can sign up for their email updates also. They both have printable coupons I think on their website now. You can use a Family Dollar printable coupon along with a Manufacturers coupon as long as the item will not be free when both coupons are combined. I believe the same goes for Dollar General.
Dollar General also has a post on www.slickdeals.net as Walmart does if you go to forums and then Drugstores/Grocery and B&M deals, then search out the Dollar General post. People will tell what deals they got at their local Dollar General. They will also put links to print off coupons on there if there are any available for the products.
As far as coupon usage for both of these stores. NOT GOOD! You are not allowed to use any free coupons. You are also not allowed to use a cent off coupon or dollar off coupoon for any item that makes it free. In other words, I use to get Snuggle there for free because I had 3.00 off coupons on any snuggle. There snuggle is 3.00 so you can not use that coupon and get the item for free. Of course when I say free, I still have to pay the tax on the amount it should have been without the coupon. You also can not use manufacturer internet coupons at Family Dollar, but Dollar General will accept them.
The Regional Manager from both stores Family Dollar and Dollar General have both spoken with me about their coupons policies. I probably don't have to tell you I am not happy with what they told me and I and many of my friends and family member who use coupons will no longer shop at any of those stores unless they reconsider their coupon policies.
It states on coupons that the store will be paid back the full price of the coupon, plus a handling fee for each coupon. So, those stores are just hurting themselves by not letting us shop there with the coupons.
Something they might know if they did a little research about people who use coupons is that the largest percentage of coupon users went to college. We use coupons because it makes sense to use them and not throw them in the trash because they are in a sense a form of money that is free to us, except for the cost of the newspaper or ink to print, or however we obtain our coupons.
So, hopefully we can still use our high dollar coupons at Walmart to get free products. As long as they have not changed their coupon policy.
As you can tell shopping with your coupons at Dollar General and Family Dollar will probably not be worth your time to even stop in unless things change.
Neither store has their coupon policies posted on their door, or anywhere in plain sight, so you don't even know about them until you go to check out if you don't read them on their website.
I am sorry. I only wish I had better information to post about these stores.
Until my next post! Happy couponing and I hope you get lots of freebies and bargains!
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