I went to WD to do the free w/ $25 items.

I bought:
4 Electrosol to get my total to $12
1 Free Goodlife dog food total now $17
3 Gatorade 20oz. (had Free Coke Reward coupons) total now $20
1 Free Success rice, total now $21+
1 free A&D (no need for it) but total now $24+
cream cheese was free weekly item
cake mix was free weekly item
english muffin free weekly item

My Electrosol rang $3.69 ~ then second line deducts $.60 making cost $2.99

My coupon automatically prompted the cashier that item costs $3.69 and to write $3.69 on coupon ~ that was $2.40 overage!

My Gatorade was $1.50 less $.50 store discount so it took $1.50 for my coupon ~ $2.90 overage now!

I had 3 free Gatorade coupons and put 2 away! The supervisor had to override the Goodlife and saved it for last ~ I ended up going into a negative sub-total which was OK (kinda) since I still had to pay $.4X tax. But my tax was $1.3X and it took off about $.90 tax.

So it the shelf price says it is lower then watch for overage!

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I of course went out to the car and right back in!

More Electrosol, more Gatorade, more weekly frees, more A&D ~ bought strawberries w/ overage this time!

And the best part was I got a free Beneful $5.50 max catalina X6/07 because I bought the Goodlife.

My experience at some (not all) stores has been if you present your club card last after doing your coupons... if the sale price is contingent on your bonus card - you can get yourself the overages as you explained. But be careful - because one store near me if you present your club card last after the item is scanned it doesn't adjust the item price for things already scanned - you need to present the card before any scanning

Yes, but the sweet thing about WD is you don't need to save the store card till the end!