How do professional cupon people end up getting paid to take grocery items?
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I don’t think that’s always very common, but the basic idea of it is sometimes you can end up with enough discounts it makes the price negative, they owe you money.
Like a thing costs $5 and you have a $2 off, a 50% Off and a instant rebate for $1.50, you can get paid to take the item.
It’s important that you’re able to stack multiple coupons AND that the coupon doesn’t have a “coupon holds no monetary value” warning on it. The simplest way is if you have a coupon that says “$5 back on a $10 purchase”. So you go to the grocery store because you have a BOGOFree on milk coupon. And you also have a coupon that says buy one milk jug and get a free cereal. And another coupon that says “buy one cereal and get $5 back” so now you have all this food and your total is basically $0. Different coupons give back to the customer and eventually end up in the negatives where the store owes them money. That’s why some coupons say “does not hold monetary value” because if the store hits the negatives, then they aren’t forced to give you the money because that’s ridiculous
A big part is finding loopholes in coupons, especially when coupled with store promotional offers (sales, coupon matching).
Eg – there’s a coupon for 50c off a tube of X Brand toothpaste. Your local store has travel size versions of it, and there’s no size listed on the coupon. Then the store has a general coupon match while a separate sale on travel accessories is on. The toothpastes were $1, now they’re 75cents.
If the coupon doesn’t have any restrictions this can turn into a 25cent credit. Then you get 200 travel toothpastes and coupon each one.
A lot of coupon and stores have policies that coupons/sales/matches can’t reduce the price below zero, so you can’t stack them anymore, and some places have things like “max 20 coupons per customer” that also makes extreme couponing impractical.
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