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I understand the fillers. There’s a lot of stores that offer you things like “$10 your order of $75”, or “Free shipping for $25”, or a rewards mark for each fixed amount spent. So it’s always good to have items that you generally need, especially if they store well.

For example, I always keep some book or item in my Amazon cart that I know I want but don’t really need right away, so if something comes up and I need to replace something quickly, I can get the order up to the $25 for free super-saver shipping.

For my ferret purchases, the site does fixed-price shipping if you order $60, and then sometimes they have a $10 off $75. But I can always buy litter — it stores forever. And the ferrets love snacks, and they come sealed and have no expiration date, so between those two items I can usually fill out to just over the amount needed. (Unfortunately, they hit me with a $10 off coupon right after one order, and I finally had to throw it away).

The Lego club used to be this way, you’d have to add stuff to get to $25 to get a reward stamp. But now they manage the reward program on-line, and do it by the actual dollars and cents spent, so you can just buy what you wanted. The online store still has free shipping sometimes for purchases over a certain amount, but generally I’ll buy from Amazon for the super-saver shipping at the lower price points.

For food items, I’m afraid my filler would end up being candy bars, which wouldn’t be good for me. Tangerines are a great choice, since they sell them individually and they are cheap.

Working fillers at Walgreens is also an art form. For example, the order that they scan the coupons can make a huge difference.

Typically you do NOT need a filler when using a store coupon with a Manufacturer’s coupon on the old register system in order to use the store coupon. However, for SOME of the coupons (the Hybrid Walgreens coupon) SOMETIMES you will. Maybe more often than not. One way to try to get around it is have them scan the Walgreens coupon last.

This is an OOPs I have one more coupon moment because they are supposed to scan all Walgreens coupons first.

Also, 1 off 2 coupon IF HANDED FIRST will often attach to two items (depends on how it is coded) but if HANDED LAST you can SOMETIMES get away with that second item being counted as a filler.

Sounds complicated?? It is.

If you are doing lots of transactions with lots of RRs and having to juggle it all around - just have extra fillers in case they are needed.

One more tip, the RRs are manufacturer’s coupons. Walgreens can reduce the amount of coupon to the cost of the item although some cashiers and some managers are clueless.

Therefore, the RR CAN BE REDUCED DOWN. Not all stores will do it because they don’t know they can do it. So , a 10 RR can be reduced to 9.99 and thus save the need for a filler. You just have to find the store that will do it for you.