By Trent Hamm
A few months ago, I was reading an older personal finance article at the library which discussed a very specific method for getting tremendous deals at CVS (a pharmacy chain). All you had to do was follow a sequence of steps and you’d find yourself with piles of items for free!
I decided to give this system a shot. I signed up for the CVS ExtraCare rewards program and started following the method outlined in that older article.
What I found was some good discounts, but not the mind-blowingly amazing discounts described in that older article.
Why didn’t it work out? I actually believe the older article did work as stated at the time it was written. It described a savings tactic that worked very well at a specific moment in time, but as times changed (prices... More...
