I was in a local college this past week and needed a few things at CVS. So I stopped in the nearest CVS/pharmacy. I was surprised to see self-scanning machines as my stores don’t have these! There was about 4 of these and it was really easy to use but I didn’t use any coupons on this trip.
Does your store have these? Is it easy to use with coupons and Extra Bucks?
See the entire list of CVS Weekly Deals or find the most recent CVS deals posted.
Before November 2012, there was no limit to couponing at the SCOs. At my stores where I live, SoCal, it is fairly common. I used to use 20-30 coupons at a time on my own. But people abused the system, unsurprisingly, and this led to radical changes (now, all coupons need to be approved by a cashier).
I have only seen them in more densely populated (urban) areas. While visiting Washington DC, I got tripped up on the plastic bag fee (wasn’t aware of it, and was charged more because I indicated that I would be needing a bag). Otherwise, I think they are great!
Good to know as we will be visiting Washington DC soon!
no I WISH there were selfies at ANY of my CVS stores! it seems they only ever have ONE person checking out and most of the time when I go they could ALWAYS use more people checking out! (this is true of EVERY store I shop at, NOT just CVS!)
it’s ridiculous! there’s almost always problems with coupons when the checkout person is scanning them anyways so it really doesn’t matter if it’s self or not.
yeah I doubt they’ll be putting any selfs into the ones here especially since most of them are newer stores to begin with. Idk why they didn’t think to do that before finishing the stores…
The first time I ever went to CVS was about 3 years ago in Boston. They had these self checkouts there, and I will never go to one again. Some of my coupons beeped and there was no one there to help!
On the other hand, our Target is one of 2 stores in the nation that have self checkouts. I LOVE them since they take coupons without any problems at all! If there’s a gift card deal, after you scan the qualifying items, it prompts you to grab a gift card from the stack above the self checkout and scan it yourself.
Only downside is that the scanners can’t scan off a phone, so you can’t use Cartwheel there. But hey, I love being able to scan my own coupons! :)