One per purchase

This is the one of the frustrating aspects of couponing. The coupon says "Limit one per purchase" One per purchase means one per purchased ITEM. If they meant one per customer or one per transaction they would say it (I have coupons with that written on it). When using a coupon, the company doesn't know whether you used 1000 coupons or 1 in the transaction. They all get sent together in for redemption. The companies could care less about how many you use in a transaction, they are just excited that you are buying their product. That's why they give out coupons, to get you to buy their product.

There are stores, such as London Drugs in Alberta that allow you to "stack" coupons; meaning you can use more than 1 coupon on an item. So if you have 5 coupons for say Tide, then you could use the 5 coupons on one bottle of Tide. However, you couldn't use 5 of the same coupon that says "limit 1 per purchase" on the 1 bottle of time. For those of you that travel south to Albera or BC often I'll blog about stacking one day. Basically 1 coupon per item unless you are in a stacking store.

It's not really rocket science, and gets to be rather frustrating. Feel free to tell the cashier to ring them in as seperate transactions if they are going to be overly picky. It's more work for them in the end for something that really comes out to be EXACTLY the same thing.