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How to Transfer Money From Savings Catcher to Bluebird

March 7, 2015 by Aarn Farmer 15 Comments

How to Transfer Money From Savings Catcher to Bluebird

February 28th has passed and we can no longer double our Savings Catcher money by transferring them to Bluebird. Bummer! But, what wasn’t expected is the button to transfer money to Bluebird was totally gone.

Unfortunately, this is no longer an option, at all.

Well, guess what. We can! Now, the money won’t double but if you would like to continue to transfer your Savings Catcher rebates to your Bluebird card, there is a way. All you have to do is go to the website savingscatcher.walmart.com, not the smartphone app.

~~After you log in, you will see this option about halfway down the page.~~

~~Either click the “Redeem to Bluebird” button or you may need to edit your redemption method if you’ve never transferred to Bluebird before.~~

Why would someone make these transfers even though they won’t double anymore? Because it is still easier to pay with a credit card at the register than to print out your eGiftcard or bring it up on your phone for the cashier to scan.

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REMINDER:Walmart Savings Catcher Money Doubling on Bluebird ENDS Today!

February 28, 2015 by Aarn Farmer 1 Comment

REMINDER:Walmart Savings Catcher Money Doubling on Bluebird ENDS Today!

Just a quick reminder for those of you with money in your Walmart Savings Catcher account, the ability to double your money by moving it on to a Bluebird card will end Saturday, February 28th.

As it takes a few days for a receipt to be processed, today is probably the last day you can shop at Walmart and enter a new receipt into Savings Catcher and expect to get money back before the 28th. So if you have money in your Savings Catcher account, go ahead and transfer it over today so you don’t forget. If you get more in before the 28th, you can transfer that over as well with no penalty.

Here are a few other articles we’ve written about Savings Catcher and Bluebird

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2/18 Frugal Report: The Real Reason for the Savings Catcher Changes? Petco has Autistic Employee Arrested

February 18, 2015 by Aarn Farmer 2 Comments

Here is today’s Frugal Report! Remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel and you can read the transcript below

This is Aarn Farmer with Grocery Shop for FREE at The Mart and this is the Frugal News that got my attention today,

The Real Reason Walmart Changed Savings Catcher?

The big news over the weekend was the changes Walmart made to their Savings Catcher program. If you aren’t familiar with Savings Catcher, it is built into the Walmart smartphone app and allows you to enter your Walmart receipts. Savings Catcher then compares what you bought to the local ads in your area and if someone has something on sale for cheaper than what you paid at Walmart, you get the difference back on a Walmart giftcard. I have personally gotten over $75 back from Savings Catcher since the program started.

However, starting last Saturday, Walmart will no longer be comparing your receipt to your local drug stores and will no longer be “Catching” any non-upc marked items like bakery goods or produce. The official reason for this Walmart gave was that most people do not grocery shop at drug stores and produce doesn’t have like-to-like-UPC matches across all retailers. However, I knew this wasn’t true because some of the things Walmart said they wanted to focus on were “health and beauty items, and over-the-counter medications” which are exactly what people go to drug stores to buy. Also, while produce doesn’t have UPC codes, they do have PLU codes that are the same across all retailers. For instance, the PLU code for bananas is 4011 regardless of where you shop.

I contacted the Walmart PR department to see if I could clear up the issue but the poor PR spokesperson I talked to made it clear she wasn’t going to answer my questions or deviate from the script Walmart had given her in any way. However, one of my readers gave me some insight into why these changes were made that sound very plausible. Now it should be noted that despite my best efforts I could not confirm this explanation from a second source and a Walmart spokesperson denied this was true but I thought it was interesting enough to tell you about it.

Walmart had been using a company called IRI to compile the data they were using for Savings Catcher and for whatever reason, they recently switched over to AC Neilsen for their data. AC Neilsen doesn’t track drug stores they way they do the other retailers and they don’t track non-upc items like bakery or produce. That’s it. I don’t know why the switch was made and I’m sure Walmart will never tell me but if they ever do, I’ll tell you here.

Learn more here Walmart Announces BIG Changes to Savings Catcher!

In Other News:

50 Shades of Grey the movie hit theaters this weekend and retailers are getting in on the action by providing tie in products you can buy. One of the stranger ones I saw was being offered by Walmart. You can get a Fifty Shades of Grey: Gourmet Gift Box filled with things like “chrome-plated metal double lock handcuffs” and a “black gift box hand-tied with rope”. And guess how much it is! $69! That’s right, Walmart is selling a box of sex toys for $69. What do you think the very religious Sam Walton would say if ever saw one of these in his stores while he was still alive? Come on Walmart, this belongs in the back of a Spencer’s, not at your stores.

On the Blog

We had Robitussin syrup for $.98

New High Dollar Coupon for Kibbles n Bits Dog Food!

and the 2/15 Reverse Coupon Matchups are up and ready to go!

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And now our story of the day and it’s a doozy.

Petco had one of their employees, who is autistic, arrested for accepting competitor’s coupons.

The story began last December, a week before Christmas. 18 year old Jared Segal, who has high-functioning Asperger’s Syndrome, was working at a Petco store in Jupiter, Florida, when he was confronted by corporate investigators. They said Segal had been accepting invalid competitors’ coupons and improperly discounting items, so they had him arrested.

Segal’s parents say he was taught that he was allowed to accept expired competitors’ coupons. If they were more than two weeks past their expiration date, acceptance required a manager’s approval. But any time he asked for approval, they say he was told, “just do it, we are busy.” On top of that, Segal was trained to give a 30% discount on any damaged products.

But Petco apparently believed Segal was giving too many discounts.. Corporate investigators said his errors cost the store about $1,000. And it’s corporate policy to call the authorities after discovering any loss of more than $100.

Here’s where the story just flies off the rails. In my day, if an employee did something like this you either trained him, disciplined him, or fired him.

But PetCo decided to have Segal arrested at work, taken to jail, and his parents only found out after he didn’t come home. He spent the night behind bars before they were able to bail him out.

Last Monday his parents announced he was cleared of all charges but his parents aren’t satisfied and want Petco to admit they were wrong.

This story reminded of a similar story from this January where Graham Gentles, a 22-year-old with Asperger’s Syndrome, was “paraded” around a Pasadena Target store in handcuffs after he was accused of stealing, even though he was never charged with a crime

That story ended with that young man commiting suicide because of how distraught he was over the public humiliation Target inflicted upon him.

You can read more about the Petco story here and the Target story here

Here is your question of the day

Should there be a different policy in place for stores to follow when having to discipline an employee with special needs. I love the fact that retailers are making a point to employee people with special needs but we call them people with special needs because they have special needs, should employers have to deal with them in special ways or would that cause more harm than good. What do you think? Leave a comment with your thoughts.

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UPDATE:Walmart Announces BIG Changes to Savings Catcher!

February 16, 2015 by Aarn Farmer 14 Comments

Walmart Announces BIG Changes to Savings Catcher!

Walmart just announced some BIG changes to their Savings Catcher program! Starting tomorrow, February 14th, 2015, Walmart will no longer catch prices or items that generally do not have a like for like match at other retailers like bakery items or produce.

In addition, Walmart will no longer include drug stores as stores they will “catch”.

Now it should be made perfectly clear that you can still Ad Match these items at the register, they will just no longer be automatically “caught” by Savings Catcher.

We haven’t heard yet what prompted these changes. I know I have really enjoyed getting money back on my produce as it seems I miss those deals more often than not. Perhaps it’s just a labor thing, they time and energy it takes to enter in all those different ads must be a huge cost.

If anyone from the Walmart Newsroom team sees this, I think we would love to have a few questions answered for us.

Why were these changes made?
Can we expect more changes in the future?
So far, every change to Savings Catcher has been to expand its scope and make it capable of catching more and more, this is the first time it has gone in the other direction. Can we expect more restrictions?
Can we expect future changes to the the Ad Matching policy to bring it in line with these new changes?
The new restriction on produce is the one that jumped out at me the most because they are like for like matches. Produce has the same PLU code across all stores. Does this change affect certain types of produce or is all produce off the table for Savings Catcher moving forward.
And on a slightly unrelated note, when are we just going to be able to type our phone number in at the register and have our receipts entered automatically into Savings Catcher so we don’t have to scan anything anymore?

UPDATE: I spoke to Danit Marquardt who is a spokesperson for Walmart and asked her the above questions. Here is what she gave me to share with you readers.

· We are known for offering low prices that help our customers save money every day. It’s a reputation we’re proud of.
· We’ve updated Savings Catcher to focus on grocery and consumable items that make up a significant portion of our customers’ weekly stock up trips, including pantry staples, dairy products like yogurt, cleaning supplies, health and beauty items, and over-the-counter medications.
· Savings Catcher will no longer match departments consisting mostly of items that do not have a like to like match at other retailers such as produce and bakery items.
· Additionally, we are limiting our comparisons to offers of other mass market retailers, grocery and dollars stores – where we know consumers often shop for stock up trips. We are removing comparisons with drug stores.

Sooo…essentially no new information was added to the conversation. The one thing she said that I tried to push back on was she kept saying that produce didn’t have like-to-like UPC matches across different retailers. I pointed out that produce didn’t use UPCs at all unless it was prepackaged, (like salad mix or 5lb bags of carrots) produce uses the 4 digit PLU codes that are identical across all supermarkets. For instance, the PLU code for bananas is 4011 regardless of where you shop. For whatever reason, she didn’t seem to have an answer for that.

The other thing I just could not get a clear answer on was why drug stores were dropped. I got the sense that they were removed because people generally don’t buy their groceries at a drug store but the list of what they wanted to focus on includes “health and beauty items, and over-the-counter medications” which are exactly what people go to drug stores to buy.

I guess, the big takeaway here is that as soon as February 28th rolls around and our Savings Catcher money won’t get doubled by Bluebird anymore, we should probably get back to using Savings Catcher as a “safety net” for our weekly grocery shopping. W do all our own Ad and Price Matching at the registers and use Savings Catcher just in case it happens to find something we missed.

What do you think?

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The Grocery Shop for FREE Podcast–Episode 13: All About Savings Catcher!

February 12, 2015 by Aarn Farmer 2 Comments

The Grocery Shop for FREE Podcast is live! this week we tell you everything you need to know about Walmart Savings Catcher and give you great quick tips from Kroger Krazy and yours truly.

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What To Do if Savings Catcher Misses a Deal

December 2, 2014 by Aarn Farmer 3 Comments

What To Do if Savings Catcher Misses a Deal

Walmart Savings Catcher is an incredible piece of technology that is constantly being improved upon but it’s not quite foolproof yet. While it has worked great for me (you can see my totals here) I have talked to a few of you that are frustrated because it seems to be missing deals. Did you know there is a way to tell Walmart when Savings Catcher misses a deal? Here’s how.

First up, click on the Walmart app, then bring up the Savings Catcher part of the app.

Click where it says “Your eReceipts” to bring up a list of all the receipts you have scanned in to Savings Catcher.

Click the receipt where the deal was missed, then scroll down and find the particular item you want to report. In this example, I will be reporting an Ace wrist bandage.

Once you click the item, scroll down and fill in the competitor’s name where it is on sale and the dates the sale ran, Once you submit the info, then you will just wait until you hear back from Walmart.

So why do it this way instead of at the register? Because anything you get back can be transferred to a BlueBird card and saved for later. It makes for an awesome return!

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How To Transfer Walmart Savings Catcher Money To BlueBird To Double It: Step-By-Step Instructions.

November 25, 2014 by Aarn Farmer 3 Comments

UPDATE: Everything changed on February 28th and now nothing in this post is valid. Now there is a NEW way to transfer funds but it won’t double anymore. Everything you need to know is at How to Transfer Savings Catcher Bucks to Bluebird.

A few weeks ago, I told you how you could double your Walmart Savings Catcher money using the American Express BlueBird Get 2x Program but at the time, I hadn’t actually transferred any money to my account myself. All that changed this morning so now I want to walk you through the quick and easy process.

If you aren’t sure what Savings Catcher is, here is an overview of what it can do and here are 3 reasons why you should be using it.

1. Get a BlueBird card

You can do this one of two ways. You can go to Walmart and pick up a FREE BlueBird temporary card. They are usually on big spinners near the front of the store. The advantage of this is you get a temporary card that you can begin using immediately.

The other way is just to go directly to the registration page and sign up. At the top where it asks “Did you purchase a temporary card at Walmart?”, just answer No and they will send you a BlueBird card in 7-10 days

2. Activate Your Card

If you bought a temporary card, you will need to register it here. If you sent for one online, you will need to wait for the card to come in the mail to activate it.

3. Transfer your Savings Catcher Money over

You can do this from your Walamrt app or your computer.

From the app, click on Savings Catcher on the home screen. Then click on Get Money in the bottom right hand corner. Scroll down to see the option to transfer to your BlueBird account. You will need to log in to your BlueBird account on confirm the transfer and the transferred ammount will be doubled.

From the computer, go to Savingscatcher.Walmart.com and log in. Follow the directions on the page to transfer the money to your BlueBird account

4. Go shopping!

It’s pretty much that easy, the whole process took me less than 10 minutes. Here’s proof of what I did.

2 Things to keep in mind is that they will ask for your Social Security Number when signing up for BlueBird and the transferred money can only be spent at Walmart.

Has Savings Catcher been working well for you? Let me know in the comments.

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3 Reasons You Should Be Using Walmart Savings Catcher

October 20, 2014 by Aarn Farmer 13 Comments

3 Reasons You Should Be Using Walmart Savings Catcher

First of all, you should know I LOVE Walmart Savings Catcher. I was fortunate to be in the Beta launch area so I got to see the first few baby steps of the program and was impressed then and it’s done nothing but get better. So let’s take a look at why should be using Walmart Savings Catcher every time you shop at Walmart.

1. You Will Save Money

When Savings Catcher first launched, this was the ONLY reason to use it and it was awesome enough. As you scan each of your receipts into Savings Catcher, Walmart checks the store ads in your area for things you bought that are a lower price at another store near you. If Walmart finds a lower price, they will credit the difference back to you. (This process is much easier with the Walmart app, but can also be done on your desktop.)

2. You Will Track Your Receipts

Have you ever wanted to return something and couldn’t find your receipt? Now you can have a digital copy of every single receipt you load into Savings Catcher on your phone. No more keeping track of little slips of paper!

3. You Can Double Your Money

If you will transfer your Savings Catcher money onto a BlueBird account, you will get DOUBLE your money back! I’ve got a ton more info about how to sign up for BlueBird here.

UPDATE: Savings Catcher no longer doubles when transferred to Bluebird. You can still transfer it, it just won’t double and the Bluebird card is still a ton easier to use than those Walmart eGiftcards.

In short, Savings Catcher is an incredibly easy program to use that will save you big. Be sure to watch the video above for more info. Thanks!

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Double Your Walmart Savings Catcher Money With the Get 2X Program From BlueBird!

October 3, 2014 by Aarn Farmer 22 Comments

UPDATE: This program has stopped. You can transfer your Savings Catcher money over to BlueBird but it will not double. I apologize if you got here through a Social Media post, they have a life of their own now and I can’t stop them from being reposted everywhere. If you want to save money though, check out my list of FREEbies available at Walmart, or the $1.00 and Under list, or the list of apps you can use to save money at Walmart. Sorry about the confusion!

At this point, I think we all know that Walmart Savings Catcher is awesome. (Don’t know what it is? Read all kinds of stuff about it here.) I’ve got about $28 sitting in my account and was all set to just be happy with that but now I am so excited about DOUBLING my money!

Here’s how the “Get 2X” Program works.

How Get 2X works:

– Log in to Walmart Savings Catcher and enter the Walmart receipt barcode number and if there’s a lower price advertised, Walmart will refund the difference in the form of Reward Dollars.

– To double the Reward Dollar amount, select “Redeem to Bluebird” in the Savings Dashboard.

– Existing Bluebird customers who choose to redeem to Bluebird will automatically receive double the Reward Dollars into their account to spend exclusively in Walmart stores or at Walmart.com. Customers who do not already have a Bluebird account will be prompted to register for a FREE Bluebird Card in a few easy steps.

– Savings Catcher customers can use their Bluebird Cards to spend Reward Dollars exclusively at Walmart or Walmart.com. Reward Dollars will be applied automatically at checkout. Any remaining purchase amount after applying will be deducted from their Available Balance. For more information, please visit Bluebird.com/SavingsCatcher.

BlueBird is a prepaid credit card that is easy to use. That’s no money to start, no monthly fees, no overdraft fees, and no minimum balance. If you’ve been using Savings Catcher, you should definitely get a BlueBird card next time you are at Walmart and double your money!

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