I watched both shows. My first reaction was envy at the liberal coupon policies that apparently exist elsewhere in the country. For instance one gal did 18 separate transactions in order to get $10 off every $50 she spent. I dont know of any store in my area that would allow that.
We often shop at Bloom. It has a coupon limit of 20/day. We had a Shoppers Food Warehouse for a while (now closed); you could not use more than four of the same coupon in one trip. The idea of cash back if a coupon doubles for more than a product is priced is totally foreign to me. All the stores in our part of Virginia will allow not allow deduction of more than the product price due to coupons. Nor take more than one coupon per item.
My second reaction was concern that the show will cause merchants to tighten their policies further so that the kind of tactics being devised to circumvent coupon limits won’t fly. It would take a computer programmer a few minutes to program the system so that you cant use your store “VIP” customer card more than once every 24 hours.
And it would take me even less time to just get a second card. And a third. Rinse, repeat. Just like CVS and their ridiculous limits. :D
Overage applied to the basket purchase is done quite often, since they are really cheating the buyer if they don't. They get reimbursed for the FULL value of the coupon, so they should give the customer full value towards their purchase. As far as doubles go, that comes out of the store's pocket and is kind of crazy to allow overage. But if they do, who am I to argue?