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If your qualifying purchase is on multiple receipts, repeat the process with each receipt. Step 6 – Select image and click the upload button. Review your picture to ensure it is clear before you upload. Step 4 – You may need to fold the receipt to get all relevant purchases in one picture. Step 3 – Make sure you circle the Membership #, time and date of transaction and the qualifying products. Step 2 – Hold your phone parallel to the receipt and line it up inside the frame. Place it on a flat surface with good lighting. Step 1 – Make sure your receipt is clear and legible. I can’t guarantee that will occur again, but if you can both of these items on sale AND get a gift card this will be the best deal that you can get! You are able to use multiple receipts to make up the $100 (see FAQ below) so you can buy the Bounty Paper Towels now and cross your fingers for a sale on Charmin (or another P&G product later)Ī: To upload your receipt, follow these simple steps: Last year, both Charmin Toilet Paper and Bounty Paper Towels were on sale during this promotion. I have taken photos of all the participating items I could find so that you can make your own shopping list. If you regularly purchase any of the higher priced items like Olay skincare, Gillette / Venus Razors this is the promotion for you! Costco members can take advantage of this offer is a maximum of twice per Costco member. The nice thing is that your $25 gift comes as a Costco Shop eCash Card sent to your email address. Eligible P&G products are marked in-store and online with the little SPEND $100 GET $25 blue circle logo (as seen above). All you have to do is to SPEND $100 on P&G products, upload a copy of your receipt (on your phone or computer) to or fill out the mail in form and send it in and GET a $25 Costco Shop eCash Card redeemable online or in-warehouse. No, they don’t think you’re a thief - it turns out they do have your best interests at heart.Getting set up for this promotion is pretty easy. If you’re a diehard Costco enthusiast, try not to take their receipt-checking policy personally. Wells ended up breaking his leg and suing Costco for $610,000 - a jury awarded him nothing. Still, even with the knowledge that Costco’s receipt-checking motives have next-to-nothing to do with customer mistrust, some people still get pretty heated by the policy.Īccording to CheatSheet, an Oregon man took things to the next level when he got into a fight with a Costco employee after trying to sneak out of the store without showing his receipt. “During the time I spent receipt checking I probably caught well over $1000 in overcharges.” The scanners are so sensitive that it’s really easy to accidentally scan something twice and not notice,” he went on to explain. “With the kind of volume Costco does errors are frequent and sometimes just can’t be helped. MICHELE EVE SANDBERG/AFP via Getty Images
In that case, a supervisor would either refund the customer’s money, or send someone out onto the floor to retrieve the correct amount of the overcharged item to add to your cart. We would catch hundreds of dollars a week in overcharges, though.”Īccording to David, there were multiple instances during his time working at Costco that customers would accidentally get charged twice for items in their cart. Literally maybe once or twice in a month of working the door. “I hardly ever saw people that had items that had not been paid for. “To my mind really not just to stop people from stealing,” David, a former Costco employee, told Consumerist. The second reason that the receipt-checkers exist is to make sure that you’ve been charged properly for the items you’ve purchased. Basically, by checking your receipt, Costco is ensuring that their cashiers correctly scanned each item in your cart. The first reason Costco checks your receipt is as a means of inventory control. According to Costco’s customer service site, there are two reasons that they’re actually checking your receipt each time you exit the store (and these reasons have everything to do with keeping tabs on cashier performance and surprisingly nothing to do with the notion that you’re a shoplifter). In fact, it might just be in your head that the trusty receipt checker thinks you’re trying to embezzle your bulk items. America’s oldest shopping mall now houses dozens of micro-apartments