- Get A CVS Extra Care Card
- To be able to take advantage of the sales at CVS a customer must have a CVS Extra Care Card.
- Fill out an application in the store and receive your card immediately and start saving. You can also apply online but I will explain later why I do not recommend this.
- With a CVS card the customer will not only get the advertised sale prices but be able to earn Extra Bucks on weekly deals, prescription purchases and quarterly spending.
- Check out "chapter two" in the CVS 101 for Beginners post for a more in-depth description of the Extra Buck program.
- Sign Up to Receive Emails
- Register your extra care card number here with CVS requesting coupons for in-store purchases.
- Only do this when you are ready to use the $4 off $20 total purchase coupon they will email you when you sign up. I am not sure how long the expiration date is good for so if you don't want to loose the coupon wait. UPDATE 4/2014: I am not sure they still send these initial $4 off $20 coupons out.
- This is why I recommended not getting your card online. I did that and when I went to sign up for the emails and get my $4/$20 coupon it said there was already an email attached to the card. I called customer service and they said when you sign up online that the email is already attached to a card. She advised trying a different email address which did not work. So I called again and asked if there was anything they could do and the fellow I talked to that time said he didn't see an email address attached to the card so added the one I tried to add and put a $4/$20 on my card to print at the store. So if you want to assure yourself of this $4/$20 coupon pick up your card in the store.
- Periodically CVS sends out coupons via email to customers--though not all customers receive the same coupons. Some of us seem to never receive emails and some receive them more than once a week.
- Register Your Card Online
- Visit CVS.com and register your card online. Do this after you have signed up for your emails.
- Periodically visit the account and check for $5/25 coupons and others that are sometimes put there. I have never received any, but readers of Simply CVS have shared that they often find them there. I wonder if checking in more often helps produce them so I plan to sign in twice a week and see if that helps.
Click the Step by Step banner above to see all of the posts in this series.
Follow along on my $50 CVS Gift Card Challenge Journey as I take a new CVS Extra Care Card account and show how to stretch the $50 into hundreds.
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