1. Wellness Card
Rite Aid has apapted a new “Club Card” of sorts, simliar to the CVS Extra Care Card. Many of the sales listed in the ad and in-store will require that you scan your Wellness Card in order to get the reduced price. There also are a few other benefits to the Wellness Card.
Sign up & Activate your new Wellness Card and you’ll get a $5 off $25 Rite Aid Coupon.
Earn Points everytime you shop.
- Earn 1 point for every $1 you spend on non-prescription purchases.
- Earn 25 points for every prescription you fill.
Additional, everyday Welness Card benefits include:
- Members-only sale pricing throughout the store
- 10% off Rite Aid Brand products every day5
- 24/7 exclusive access to a pharmacist when you call 1-800-RITEAID
2. Up Rewards Program (UPR)
The UP Rewards program is connected to the Wellness Card, if you don’t scan your card you won’t be able to take advantage of these bonus coupon savings. Each week there will be a few items on sale featuring bonus UP Rewards. UP Rewards will print at the bottom of your receipt, again very similar to CVS. They will be varying $ amounts, depending on the deal. You can use these UP Rewards on anything in the store, with the exception of prescription purchases. You can also “Roll” your rewards, meaning you can use the rewards you earned from X deal to purchase the very same X deal again.
Here is an example of a recent UP Rewards deal:
Gillette Deodorant – 2/$7 with Welness Card
Use BOGO Manufacturer Coupon
Get $4 UPR (Up Rewards) wyb 2
Final Price: $0.50 Money Maker
3. Single Check Rebates (SCR)
The Single Check Rebate program works independently from the Wellness Card, and I have a feeling it’s working it’s way off the scene to make room for the programs described above. But for now, they’re actively advertising both programs, so I’ll give you a refresher course on the SCR program as well.
Each week there are items that are offering a rebate when purchased. You can go here each month to see the full list of SCRs available, the dates, stipulations, etc. A couple of things you need to know:
- You can only submit for 1 rebate check per month. This does not mean you can only do one of the rebate deals per month, it just means you can only get 1 check from Rite Aid per month.
- You can submit for rebates online, just enter the required details from your store register receipt. The rebate check is CASH that you can deposit right back into your bank account.
- You CAN use manufacturer’s coupons with SCR deals, oftentimes making the deal a Money Maker.
- SCRs have a limited window of availability and they are limited by quantity as well. So make sure you read the dates you can make the purchase between and read how many you qualify to get a rebate check for.
Here is an example of a recent SCR deal:
Blink Tears – $7.99 (Limit 1)
$2/1 Blink Tears or GelTears Lubricating Eye Drops printable
Get $7.99 SCR
Final Price: $2 Money Maker!
I hope you’ve found this helpful, if anything is still unclear please leave acomment so I can clarify or edit as needed. Think about it as not just helping yourself, but helping the rest of The Frugal Find readers who might be confused too. Thank you for reading The Frugal Find!
Nicole June 15, 2010 at 10:10 am
Thanks for the great information! I have two questions I was hoping you could help me with:
((1)) Can you use an UP Reward (coupon) on a purchase for the same product AND still get another UP Reward? For example, I bought 1 Coppertone spray and received a $2 UP Reward. Can I do the following on my next trip?
$ 9 Buy Coppertone spray
( 3) Coppertone VV manufacture coupon
( 1) IP manufacture Coppertone coupon
(2) UP Coppertone coupon (from previous visit)
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3
(2) UP Coppertone coupon for future visit
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1 net cost
((2)) Also, I have a $5 off of $20 VV coupon. Can I do the following?
$20 Purchase of 4 items
( 5) $5/20 VV coupon
( 3) manufacturer coupons (x3)
( 4) VV coupons (x2)
( 2) IP manufacturer coupon
( 4) UP rewards
—-
2 net OOP
I know with Walgreens, the number of manufacturer coupons (including the RR’s) cannot exceed the number of items purchased. Just curious how Rite Aid’s policy works.
Thanks a ton!
Julia June 15, 2010 at 10:15 am
Yes, you can roll these rewards! Rite Aid is SO much easier to shop than Walgreens. I hope that helps!
Peyton June 22, 2010 at 6:57 pm
Thank you for this info. I have been trying to tackle Rite Aid recently. Thankfully, the mngr at our local has been great. I still don’t understand the up rewards fully. Aren’t the up rewards good on only specified products and not just register cash? so you have to roll the reward back into a similar or the same purchase?
Erick August 8, 2010 at 9:23 pm
UP reward coupons are just like cash. They can be used on anything (except alcohol, tobacco, prescriptions, money orders, and western union) and you can use multiple UP coupons on one single purchase. I am a Rite Aid employee and the other day I had a customer who only had to pay a few cents for a purchase of more than a few products.
Beth June 22, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Also a question on the UP Reward program. When the coupon prints off on your receipt, it says something like:
$1.00 off any Household Purchase of $10 or more or
$1 off any Oral Care Purchase or more.
So, I’m thinking these are more limited in how you can use them than the register rewards are. (i.e., the coupon for oral care has to be used on toothpaste, floss, etc.?)
Julia June 22, 2010 at 9:14 pm
Beth, those are more generic rewards that you can earn with any purchase. The UP Rewards that you earn for buying specific sale items are more like the CVS ECBs, usually more like a $3 off $3 or more.
Angela June 24, 2010 at 5:47 am
Will the store ads/booklets show the up reward products? Or where would you find out what they are? thanks for all your information!
Angela June 24, 2010 at 5:42 am
Big question. I went on my Rite Aid shopping trip last night and it doesn’t show how many wellness points that I got just how much I saved with the card. Ok. It’ll show up next purchase. But, my UP Rewards aren’t anywhere in $$ amounts. I did receive at the bottom of the receipt an +UP Reward of $1 off any cough, cold, or allergy purchase of $10 and must be used with the wellness card. I thought I’d get “cash” credit toward future purchases of my choice. Instead I received 3 of those cough “coupons” that I will not use.
cilla July 12, 2010 at 7:12 am
I have been shopping at Rite Aid these past 2 weeks and everytime I made a purchase the point balance stays at 122. It does not go up at all and I am wondering what is wrong.
Julia July 12, 2010 at 7:15 am
I would contact Rite Aid directly and ask this question, sorry I can’t help more than that
Erick August 8, 2010 at 9:26 pm
Go to riteaid.com and you should be able to find your point balance.
Kiddie August 27, 2010 at 2:03 am
how do I use my RA associate card to apply for Upromise. The card has more digiits than the available slots
Candy Nickert September 20, 2010 at 10:48 am
I appreciate this – it does help to explain it. However, before reading this I purchased some bags of candy for Halloween thinking they were going to be the great deal of $1.99 with my card. They were actually $2.99 and $1 up coupon – to me that’s confusing. I wouldn’t have purchased them for $2.99. You may need to look at another way to put out those sales that’s not confusing to the buyer.
Thanks,
Candy
sha October 28, 2010 at 2:43 pm
hi, since the rite aid card is trackable, would i have to make all of my purchases at the same time in order to get the +up points? i.e. this week riteaid is offering a +10up points if you purchase $25 worth of any advertised candy.
Brenda February 8, 2011 at 6:29 pm
I just left Rite Aid and on my receipt it says “Your wellness + point total as of 2/7/2011 – 22″. What exactly does this mean? Thank you in advance for responses!
Rox July 19, 2011 at 4:26 pm
My mom recently received a letter stating she was close to getting the 20% off rate with her Wellness card. How can I find out what her points are? We are at Rite Aid every other day! Thank You!
Teri April 8, 2012 at 2:21 pm
Just want to make a comment @ UP Rewards. They are too confusing. Even the employees in my local store agree and say they hear complaints @ this issue all the time. Go back to the plain and simple Rite-Aid Rebates. I don’t shop RA like I used to, only @ once a week now because it comes down to dollars and cents: I don’t save as much as I did before with this new program!
Janice Glass May 21, 2012 at 10:08 am
I too am disappointed in the “new” way of getting rewards. It was so much easier and FUN when the cashier would say “oh you got 5$ off next time”. CVS is different, Iwent there for my Dad and instantly got 3$ off next purchase. I am also computer challenged! and I am still trying to find the site where I get my FREE wellness reward!
Chuck Lopopolo July 12, 2012 at 9:59 am
Do You Get Anything If You Have 3211 Total Wellness+ points
Grace turnwald July 26, 2012 at 5:17 pm
How do I find out what i can get with 500pts. I am very confused. I cannot find that site,there are so many. everytime i try something else comes up . It is upsetting . I am not liking all the sites that come up. and not the one I want.
cheryl August 3, 2012 at 10:17 am
No you don’t get 10% off RiteAid products when you use your card…there may be some, but I’m sure it’s not all.
janice koenig October 20, 2012 at 10:09 am
I used to go to my local RiteAid store every day with my daughter……now, I am so upset with the way I am treated that I will not go back to that store………..no one seems to know how to use the UP AMOUNTS ON MY Receipts AND THEIR COMPUTER DOESN’T MATCH MY PAPER RECEIPTS.
It was very nice of the pharmacy girls to answer my question concerning this problem……and you know what………they also agree with me that this new way of placing the rewards directly into your system is for the birds………the cashiers are not pleasant especially when they have a long line waiting behind me…………all I wanted was a simple answer to why my receipt and the pharmacy tells me that I have 2 dollars yet to be applied………the front cashier tells me no I do not have any monies left…………she was also very rude…………….
Marylou Webb October 21, 2012 at 3:01 pm
I just finished shopping at my local RiteAid and on my receipt it saysI have a 500 point wellness reward. What does this mean and how do I receive my reward?
Steph October 29, 2012 at 10:12 am
I just found out that you could not apply manuf coupons to the items that you are purchasing should you have UP reward money on your card that exceeded your total. For instance, I had a total of $18 UP rewards on my card and went in to buy some toothpastes. I was buying 2 at $3.50 each. Although I had 2 $0.75 manuf coupons, I was not allowed to use them, because the computer automatically applied my UP rewards against my $7 total, bring my total down to $0.00. Now I am focused to paid full price for my items, because I can not pick and choose which UP rewards to apply. If I had $100 UP rewards on my card, I would have to use them all before any manuf coupons could be applied, which is ridiculous to me. I am reluctant to accumulate any more UP rewards.
Anonymous November 8, 2012 at 3:59 am
You can “unclip” any or all up rewards so you don’t have to use them all at once! It’s really easy to do on your phone with the rite aid app I did it right in line the other day to avoid this same problem! I had $8 up rewards on my card, two seperate ones for $3 and $5 so I un clipped the $3 reward and only used the $5 reward so I could use some manufacturer coupons I had since my item was for 8.99 on sale. I paid .99 cents for a 17.99 bottle of fish oil and I still have my $3 reward for next time. Had I not unclipped the reward before I checked out I would not have been able to use my other coupons either ! You can do this online too if you register your wellness card !!
Sue November 26, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Thank you for posting this. I was at Rite Aid today and none of the employees could help me with this same issue. Why don’t they know about the phone app? It’s so easy.
Ann Mori February 28, 2013 at 7:45 am
they say my reward has not been claimed,and it will expire on march 31st.I was’nt sure I had any rewards.what are they and what do I do ? thank you ann mori