(This deal is HOT for those of us without a CVS :speechless: )

Sale at Longs Drugs: Pantene 13.5-oz. Shampoo or Conditioner or Styling Aids .68 to 10.2-oz. Including New Ice Shine!
(Excludes Pantene Expressions & Pro-V Restoratives Hair Care) $2.99

Mfr Cpn:Pantene Any Product, excluding trial size $4.00/2 exp.10/31/06 {Source: P&G-10-01-06}

LD Rebate:
Offer #90: Purchase $30.00 of P&G get $10.00 gift card (Pantene is included)

Shopping Trip Options:
Purchase 10 Pantene: 10 x $2.99 = +$29.90
Use 5 mfr insert cps: 5 x $4.00 = -$20.00

You are going to be a bit short of $30 requirement , so purchase something else to cover missing 10c.
Bring P&G-10-01-06 cpn insert with you, and look around the store for something else you could use. Perhaps a clearanced Cover Girl item?

Few weeks ago there were Crest Pro-Health t/paste on sale for 99c.
If you have a raincheck, or if you bought one then, you are covered for rebate.

If you encounter a VERY coupon friendly cashier or mgr, ask to price modify each bottle of 10 Pantene up 1c,
so that they ring up at $3.00 each.

$10.00 GIFT CARD
PURCHASE $30.00 OF P&G BRANDS LISTED BELOW (EXCLUDING SALES TAX)
AT LONGS DRUGS AND RECEIVE A $10.00 LONGS DRUGS GIFT CARD
NOTE: $10.00 LONGS DRUGS GIFT CARD WILL BE SHIPPED SEPARATELY
LIMIT: ONE (1) $10.00 LONGS DRUGS GIFT CARD

Participating Brands (60 in all):
A Touch Of Sun
Always
Ariel
Aussie
Bounce
Bounty
Camay
Cascade
Charmin
Cheer
Clairol
Cover Girl
Crest
Dawn
DayQuil
Downy
Dreft
Febreeze
Fixodent
Folgers
Gain
Glide
Head & Shoulders
Herbal Essences
Hydrience
Iams
Infusium
Ivory
Joy
Kandoo
Loving Care
Luvs
Max Faxtor
Men's Choice
Metamusil
Millstone
Natural Instincts
Nice 'N Easy
Noxzema
NyQuil
Olay
Old Spice
Pampers
Pantene
Pert
Prilosec
Pringles
Puffs
Safeduard
Scope
Secret
Sure
Swiffer
Tampax
Thermacare
Tide
Ultra Sheen
Ultress
Vicks
Zest

One other factor to consider:
this month there are a lot of LD rebate offers for individual P&G products.

I have not asked the Customer Service yet about receiving 2 rebate offers on a purchase of same item(s). If it turns out that they allow double dips with LD rebate program, there can be other good deals found, instead of Pantene.

At this point however, problem is that only few of P&G items are actually on sale.

If anyone wishes to call and check on this, or research other P&G shopping options, please feel free to contrubute.
Thanks