Whether your receipt box is all nice and tidy—-and decked out with the latest chevron print or just an empty shoebox with no specific pattern decoupaged on it……you still need one…
It’s a place to toss your receipts day in and day out when you are busy! But WAIT, before you toss in your receipts make sure you LOOK at each one carefully! Computers scan our purchases at Target, Wal-Mart, Kroger, Walgreens, and many, many other retailers!! IT is up to you, the consumer to protect yourself. Use your own scanner, your eyes, to double check prices.
This past week alone, I was over charged at Target $4.86, Walgreens $3.81, Kroger $1.67 x 2……
At Target, I was already home when I noticed the overcharge!! An hour away! Now, it was not worth driving in to cash in on my overcharge but I put in a call to the manager so that he could extend the ten day grace period to thirty days. HE remembered talking to me when I came in to the store!
At Walgreens, it was an overcharge on an item that I was buying for FREE with a coupon. The glitch happened when my Walgreens card did not scan. There’s one price for products but another when you use your card. So at Walgreens make sure the card scans (you will know it did by looking on your receipt—the Balance Rewards points will always show up if your card scans).
At Kroger, the consumer is protected a Price Scan Guarantee Policy that you can read about here! Luckily, it protects me many, many times since I do 90% of our shopping there! By using it, I received free carrots to juice today!!
However, no matter where you shop, you must, must protect yourself by scanning over your receipt. The overcharges add up over a course of time. Don’t allow your money to be left in the retailers’ register drawers and deposited into their bank. Use a few minutes of your time to make sure it is deposited into your pocketbook/bank (if you are overcharged)!
If you’re not overcharged, should you keep your receipts!?! I do. You may use a current receipt to cash in on ibotta offer that pops up, teach math skills to your children with them, price compare items——-or just get in the habit of keeping all receipts for three months out of purchase date just in case you need them for one reason or another!
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