Always check your receipts before you leave a store. If you don't already do this, you would be amazed about how much money you are losing. Stores often ring items up wrong or you make a mistake by choosing the wrong item. This can really add up over time. I'll give you 2 examples: the other week at Kroger, I did not check my receipt until I got home. When I did check my receipt I noticed the cashier did not scan my coupon for a free box of cereal, the cereal was about $4. I did go back to the store later and told the person at customer service what happened, I was lucky that I had checked out my groceries at the self check and gave the coupons to the cashier and they were able to check the cash register and found my coupon and they did refund my money.
Another great example was at CVS. Always make sure you get your extra value bucks that you are supposed too. I have had this happen twice. One time it just did not print out for folger's coffee (for 5.99) and they gave me a written extra value buck for $5.99. Last week, I checked my receipt and noticed there was no extra value buck for a lipstick I bought. Now listen to this, I bought $25 worth of merchandise and I only paid $2 exactly. When I got to the car I checked my receipt and noticed there was no extra value buck for the lipstick, which was for $5.99. I went back into the store and told them, we checked the lipstick and realized I had bought the wrong one. So I asked to trade it out. The first lipstick I bought was buy one get 2nd for 50% off, the lipstick that I had wanted was buy one get one free. Because I had paid extra for the first lipstick I bought, CVS owed me money back. I received $2.78 back from them, so at the end of my trip I actually ended up paying nothing for my merchandise and they paid me .78 to shop there! I also did get my extra value buck for for the price of the lipstick which was $5.99. So for just going back into the store I gained $6.77.
