• Beyond Target Coupons – Little Known Tips and Tricks for Saving Money at Target

    tips for saving money at Target
    Saving money at Target has become something of a sport in this country. (A fun sport).

    Here are some 12 little known tips and tricks to give you the winning edge:

    1. Use Target's Printable Grocery Coupons. Before you leave home, check here and print the coupons for items you need.

    2. Sign up for Target’s mobile coupons. It's easy and free to register, and you'll get a bunch of coupons and offers delivered right to your phone each month. Your checker simply scans a bar code from your phone at the register.

    To sign up, go here or visit m.target.com from your mobile phone. Alternately, you can text the words COUPONS to 827438. (Text messaging rates apply. And these coupons are for using in store only, not online.)

    3. Check the Target.com web site for weekly ads as well as for today’s Daily Deals here. These deals last only a day (plus you'll always get free shipping on these daily deals.)

    NewCouponsandDeals.com also has a great section for online Target product deals, but you have to act fast because these deals don’t last long. When they’re gone, they’re gone. Of course, you can also find the latest online Target coupons and deals at Susies-Coupons here.

    4. Bring clipped and printed coupons. Target honors most printable coupons as well as those clipped from Sunday circulars, so make sure to bring the coupons you’ve printed from our printable grocery coupons site, as well as those you clipped from Sunday newspaper inserts.

    Be on the lookout for further discounts, often in the form of rebates, on individual products as you shop. And remember that most Target coupons are stackable, too, so you can use a printed coupon and a clipped coupon and a mobile coupon.

    5. Shop the end caps (those shelves on the end of aisles). The easiest way to do this is to make a bargain-hunting lap of the store’s perimeter from time to time.

    Target places their most reduced clearance items on aisle end caps. The exact placement is unique to each store, but there’s typically a “clearance bonanza” in each individual section, as well as a storewide clearance spot.

    You can find amazing deals there. I’ve found the best deals on toys, which tend to hit clearance racks on Wednesdays, as well as on Jewelry and Accessories (which tend to get marked down on Fridays), and Groceries (which tend to get marked down on Tuesdays.) Shop often – and early in the morning - for the best selection.

    Another tip for timing your shopping: If you’re like me and you have a ‘gift closet’ for all those last-minute birthday invites, stock it for the coming year at Target’s after-holiday clearance sale. This usually kicks off on the Thursday before or after New Years. You’ll find ridiculous savings on toys. I mean ridiculous.

    6. Wait. If you’re a gamblin’ girl, wait as long as possible before you buy, because the item might get marked down again. Target generally starts with a 15% markdown, then takes it to 25, then 30, 50, 75 and even sometimes to 90%, if there’s anything left.

    How will you know when a price is as low as it’s going to go? Simple. When an item’s little orange clearance sticker has a price that ends in “4,” such as “2.74,” that’s as low as the price is going to get. Buy it now!

    7. Before you make your way to the checkout, do a last little scan of your cart and decide whether it contains anything that made its way in there because of Clearance Madness/Blindness. We all have times when we get so carried away with a good deal that we buy things we don’t even want. Even if the price ends in a 4, you can save even more by putting it back where you found it. Unless, of course, you truly love it, and then – onward to the checkstand!

    8. Pay with your REDcard. Assuming that you pay your bill in its entirety each month and don’t run a balance, you can save an additional 5% when you pay with your Target REDcard. Once you get a REDcard (which you can apply for at your local Target store or by mail) you'll also get 5% off when you use your card online.

    As a REDcard user, you'll also get frequent coupon books sent to your home with savings that correspond to your buying habits. And there are other benefits as well: Target will donate 1% of your REDcard purchases to the school you designate. Plus, once you have used your REDcard to fill five prescriptions at Target's Pharmacy, you'll earn 5% off a day of Target shopping. That's in addition to the 5% off you'll already get when you use your REDcard at the checkout. Here are the details on the RedCard.

    9. If you don’t have a RedCard, pay with discounted Target gift cards. Sites such as GiftCards.com allow you to save up to 25% at your favorite retailers by buying gift cards at a discount.

    10. Check your receipt and file it away for next time. Target now features more coupons and promotions at the bottom of each sales receipt.

    target gift card giveaway11. Join our $50 monthly Target gift card giveaway!     Susies-Coupons.com gives away a $50 Target.com gift card each month to one of our newsletter subscribers. So each month that you’re subscribed, you’re eligible. If you’re not a subscriber, click here now.

    Last, but certainly not least, find Target Online coupons here >

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