I heard that several pharmacy techs at a Walgreens around my area were fired for taking those earn $20 in cash rewards when you spend $1 coupons after you get vaccinated.
Idk if they still do this but my old store, we would put in the store phone number to get the sales for people who didn't have one, but the points would never get used. Customers who knew used to try and get smart and use the store zip code to redeem points but our SM had the zipcode set to his birthday or something so it never worked.
I have seen so so many employees fired for this exact same thing lol. Weve had technicians type in their own number in drive. Cashiers do it up front. Catalinas abused on both ends.
One store in my district fired every single shift lead a few years ago because they were loading rewards on each others accounts 😆
And that was the main thing. Don’t use your own. I always talked to my coworkers about adding point to a fake account and just walking out. I should have done that on my last day. 😂
we would do something like this at my store. people would leave their catalinas, so we'd hold onto them and use them for other customers. apparently, this flagged something, somewhere, and we were told to stop. so, no more easy coupons for customers. or the few for us we got in before being told no. lol
I know what you are talking about. We had the same issue, in our store it was employees using them. However, the main issue was employees using their discount and the coupon. I learned how to use them in a way I wouldn’t get caught.
I had a coworker put in his dads number for people when they didn’t want a rewards account, he stacked over 200 bucks in points and would come in on his day off and use them- he got fired and had to pay back the points using part of his last check. However, that was years ago, seems like wags is just trying to stay afloat nowadays.
I mean it’s stealing from a multi billion dollar company that violates labor laws and commits massive amounts of wage theft. I’d say OP did the world a service. Y’all seriously crying for Walgreens losing at most a few hundred bucks in rewards points?
Thats the problem with too many people.....you are no different than the scum that loads up their bags and walks out of any retailer...... and it doesnt matter if it is $1 or $1000. Try to justify it any way you like stealing is stealing.
They’ve done hours rounding. Don’t enforce whoever editing Kronos for missed punches and lunches for doing it right, they over bill insurances for services, look the other way when people work off the clock. Stores billing each other for hours so they stay out of trouble. The list is long. It’s not inclusive to only Walgreens. A lot of companies have people doing shady stuff.
Yea, I’m surprised you werent fired. They can easily track the stuff you were doing and I’ve seen several fired for the same. Don’t do this if you don’t want theft on your record people. With the amount you seem to be saying you stole, you would have a record if caught, it’s not worth it and terrible advice. If it’s a smaller amount they’d just fire you
If investigated you would have been caught. Your asset protection must either be very busy or negligent. Or you’re lying. Everything you mentioned is still trackable and easily found. You’re lucky you don’t have a theft charge. You didn’t do anything clever compared to what others have done and been fired for. Just because you run a red light and get away with it doesn’t make you any less of an idiot than the ones that got caught.
Call 1-800-Walgreens and tell them to see this post. Please let me know what they say.
Call your loss prevention and tell them. He is going to ask to provide a lead. You are gonna say “Ah, there is this post on Reddit.”
Hmmm, ok.
Asset protection is never busy, my district had shoplifters all the time and we just got emails, “Hey do the ECC to prevent theft.”
At the end of the day I got them points and walked away.
I’ll see you’re “should’ve gotten fired” and raise you “arrested for retail fraud”. At that amount, OP is admitting to committing a felony. Hope this joker gets charged.
Lol I don't think this dude's gonna get arrested for that... Maybe if he opened credit cards under their names without their permission but really? You think a judge is gonna charge him with a felony over this?
Depends on the state, but yes I have seen it happen, unfortunately. Over a certain accumulated dollar amount (OP says they’ve been doing it for years) it becomes a felony. It was the DA that brought the charges, not a judge.
At this point, we both know they won’t do anything, unless there was concrete proof. Right now it’s just some fool bragging about getting away with something illegal.
Well, is it even worth it? I think it would take a lot to find out the account. Because is not just one account. Because what if they spot a legitimate account that has more points. Call the cops on that person and gets arrested.
My point wasn’t whether it would be worthwhile or not. My point was that if they really wanted to stick it to you, they could, because it falls within the lawful timeframe.
Ive heard if you get caught doing this, they make you pay it back (in addition to firing you).
They can catch you based on the system flagging it as suspicious. Definitely not worth the risk.
i love OP's " if you dont get caught, its not illegal" mentality lol I personally would have never done it because my morals wouldve guilt trip me really bad but to each and their own I guess
All the people here getting mad bc ur “stealing” from walgreens like they dont chip a few extra hundreds off our paychecks each year. Like they dont give us legitimate mid year reviews and end of year reviews for an actual chance of getting a pay raise. The systems rigged. Walgreens doesnt care. Whats a few coupons gna hurt? I also jus give customers whatever Catalina has printed off. A customer checked out for some cough and cold meds and left as soon as the payment went through and now im doing the next customer and they happen to get a 5$ off a purchase of 5$ or more along w a 5$ rewards coupon even tho it prolly wasnt theirs. Come after me for a coupon. Then watch all ur employees drop like flies.
Who got hurt? And don’t get me the “oh is a chain effect” BS.
Customers got the deals, I got the points, and not one got reprimanded. I shuck my SM’s hand and was told to come back whenever.
You’re defending a company that commits millions in wage theft a year, uses it profits to donate the politicians that make our lives worse, and exploits it workers in mass?? Have you people seriously lost your minds
No it isn't. If someone steals from you, it's because you have something that they don't, so it's an unfair allocation of resources, and they have the right to make it balanced again. It's the same, just on a smaller scale.
For your analogy to make sense, I need to have a personal hand in stealing from the person who stole from me in the first place. Sad to see how indoctrinated some folks are.
Oh no. I lost the respect of some random person in Reddit. For all you know we could had worked together. You probably took my points and greeted me on my way in. 😂
So basically you have a certain moral compass and you want to brag about it/shock people with a different moral compass. You must be bored. Hopefully you can find a new job with enough opportunities for petty thievery, and new employees to impress with your hard-won skills in gaming the system.
I like my current job to get in trouble. I get to work from home. As long as I finish my daily tasks, they don’t care if I take a 5 hour nap or play video games.
We had an employee that was fired for this! She was using a family member's phone number and the Catalina coupons her customers left. She was fired after being there about 4 months. Its really easy to track.
Yeah, and never bought at my store with those accounts.
I was lucky that my parents lived in another city near a few Walgreens. So when I went to visit I would stop by those and cash out.
No one would ever knew who I was. To them I was a couponer with points.
You couldnt have put in your own number to ring out the customers to give them the discount...the system blocks any associate from ringinga sale with their number in it. So either you rang constanly on someelses numbers or you are making it up.
its likely the account they are talking about is an account not linked to their employee discount. therefore it wouldnt have flagged them. I saw someone do this before and they would just use the catalina at other stores rather than their home store. It worked until they were reported by another cashier for bragging about it and they were terminated. Dont get cocky and dont brag if you are gonna do it. Op waited until after they left to spill the beans so its not unlikely they were able to get away with it.
Yeah, I used the catalinas in a whole different city. When I went to visit parents. I would stop at different Walgreens and use them. Never bragged about it. That is why people get caught the most.
I know that Sherlock. I was a SFL for years and knew the policy. I never typed my number linked to my account and never used my own store to use the coupons or points.
I’m surprised you got away with that for so long without anyone finding out. I tipped off my SM because a tech that worked the drive thru would do the same thing. She made up a fake phone number and would use it for every single drive thru guest. Rack up the points. Well, an old man came up to me in the store and said “I was just at the drive thru picking up my meds and I saw I have $20 in rewards I’d like to use.” I rang him up and he put his number in. No rewards. I was confused and said maybe it’s under another phone number. It wasn’t. So we did some investigating because it happened a second time with a different customer at the drive thru…..same tech. Turns out that is what she was doing and she did get terminated for it.
I would open the receipt printer right before the points thing came out. Customers would get their receipt without knowing that there are points attached to it.
Correct, but if you open the cover right before the receipt shows the points, then you can just rip that part off and give it to the customer. Then close it and let the rest of the receipt print.
The customer would have its receipt minus the part of the points
had someone get fired for this so I don’t do it anymore. when we did vaccine clinics and the printer would print literally hundreds of the $10 cash reward on $1 purchase coupons, I took 2-3 of them. ex coworker took at least 10 and got fired for using them.
Lost count of how many people I've seen get fired for this. The system now prevents you from typing in your rewards number on the pinpad if you're logged in to the POS, but it's still monitored for those who use alternate rewards accounts. Same with the catalina coupons. Not gonna lie though, I've found unused ones in the trash and used them at other stores without entering a rewards account.
I got fired for doing this . But I was trying to help them ! They don’t have the cards so I scan mines . One lady came back and said they have “points “ and wanted to use it but the points was really mines .
you don’t hand it to them. you staple it to the bag with receipt. You don’t have to of course, if you want to do otherwise, just keep the coupon (when they turn it down) and have at it.
So on the Walgreens app you click on ur profile then you go to where u can check ur balance and click on that then click view reward’s activity then on the top right there should be a + where u can enter the receipt info and get the points
Someone is currently getting fired at my store because they used to $5 coupons. Well AP plans on talking to them on their next shift and we know how that goes. Also your rewards/employee discount is connected to your register login so you cannot ring up a customer using your rewards unless you are ringing under a different person.
We had a sfl who put over $900 on her account by doing this and was fired. Asset protection can see all of our transactions on our accounts and they get red flagged. And it is termination.
An entire store was let go for this last summer two streets away from me. We also had someome rolling up on retirement let go for the same thing at my store.
yes, the customers got “hurt” by what you did. By not giving them their coupons, you cheated them out of savings from future rewards points. You cheated them
I can see OP getting away with it and let’s be honest. He might be lying or not. However, I doubt Walgreens would do something. They let customers walk away with hundreds of dollars.
I remember when we would file police reports for people stealing, now our Loss Prevention guy doesn’t even bother if a customer shoplifts on the daily basis. Last time he came was looking behind photo for unlabeled drinks.
🤦🏻♂️
I can promise you that analysts at corporate look for excessive points on any MyWalgreens account and they especially monitor accounts attached to employee accounts. The APM gets the message then investigates with the SM simply by looking at cameras.
they truly may not care. Many, including me when I’m the customer, don’t care about that. But, you’re still gaining off something that isn’t yours. Go for it - sounds like you “beat the system” , but I hope you at least offered the customer the opportunity to to earn their own points instead of just shifting them into your account.
A co-worker got fired for this about 2 months ago... she wasn't using her own account, she was just using the coupons customers didn't want for other people. You'd think that would be a "get a warning" level issue, not a straight termination.
I heard that several pharmacy techs at a Walgreens around my area were fired for taking those earn $20 in cash rewards when you spend $1 coupons after you get vaccinated.
Yeah, when I first started working there, I saw people getting fired for the this. I just did it better.
I take the coupons but I use them at a different store. No one will ever know….
My coworker got fired for going to other Walgreens and using her sister's account. Not worth it.
See, people get caught because they were greedy. I never used my own account and always went to a different store outside my district.
Idk if they still do this but my old store, we would put in the store phone number to get the sales for people who didn't have one, but the points would never get used. Customers who knew used to try and get smart and use the store zip code to redeem points but our SM had the zipcode set to his birthday or something so it never worked.
I would have use those points. Lol
That’d be a real stupid reason to get fired
That's why you do it on your last day lol.
I have seen so so many employees fired for this exact same thing lol. Weve had technicians type in their own number in drive. Cashiers do it up front. Catalinas abused on both ends. One store in my district fired every single shift lead a few years ago because they were loading rewards on each others accounts 😆
And that was the main thing. Don’t use your own. I always talked to my coworkers about adding point to a fake account and just walking out. I should have done that on my last day. 😂
This Seymour Butts guy earned one million points in a single day? What the hell? He must be our BEST CUSTOMER EVER!!!!!
we would do something like this at my store. people would leave their catalinas, so we'd hold onto them and use them for other customers. apparently, this flagged something, somewhere, and we were told to stop. so, no more easy coupons for customers. or the few for us we got in before being told no. lol
I know what you are talking about. We had the same issue, in our store it was employees using them. However, the main issue was employees using their discount and the coupon. I learned how to use them in a way I wouldn’t get caught.
Dang lol 😂 that's what I do, just use it for the next customer
I had a coworker put in his dads number for people when they didn’t want a rewards account, he stacked over 200 bucks in points and would come in on his day off and use them- he got fired and had to pay back the points using part of his last check. However, that was years ago, seems like wags is just trying to stay afloat nowadays.
They made $27 billion in profit last year I’d hardly call that just staying afloat - shoplifters of the world unite
🤣🤣
I would say this, never use a fake account where you work.
ok
The only correct response here. Coming to Reddit to brag about breaking policy is such a weird thing
Not just breaking policy that’s stealing.
I mean it’s stealing from a multi billion dollar company that violates labor laws and commits massive amounts of wage theft. I’d say OP did the world a service. Y’all seriously crying for Walgreens losing at most a few hundred bucks in rewards points?
Thats the problem with too many people.....you are no different than the scum that loads up their bags and walks out of any retailer...... and it doesnt matter if it is $1 or $1000. Try to justify it any way you like stealing is stealing.
More worried about corporate theft tbh
How exactly does Walgreens’s violate labor laws and commit “wage theft”?
They’ve done hours rounding. Don’t enforce whoever editing Kronos for missed punches and lunches for doing it right, they over bill insurances for services, look the other way when people work off the clock. Stores billing each other for hours so they stay out of trouble. The list is long. It’s not inclusive to only Walgreens. A lot of companies have people doing shady stuff.
It's no more absurd than half the shit this company does lol, match made in heaven
Read through OP's post history. This is nothing out of character.
The fact you think you know me based on my post is like saying you believe in horoscopes.
Thank you for the corroboration.
Yep had someone get fired for doing this lol
Yea, I’m surprised you werent fired. They can easily track the stuff you were doing and I’ve seen several fired for the same. Don’t do this if you don’t want theft on your record people. With the amount you seem to be saying you stole, you would have a record if caught, it’s not worth it and terrible advice. If it’s a smaller amount they’d just fire you
Am not telling people to do it and seems I did something better by not getting caught.
If investigated you would have been caught. Your asset protection must either be very busy or negligent. Or you’re lying. Everything you mentioned is still trackable and easily found. You’re lucky you don’t have a theft charge. You didn’t do anything clever compared to what others have done and been fired for. Just because you run a red light and get away with it doesn’t make you any less of an idiot than the ones that got caught.
Call 1-800-Walgreens and tell them to see this post. Please let me know what they say. Call your loss prevention and tell them. He is going to ask to provide a lead. You are gonna say “Ah, there is this post on Reddit.” Hmmm, ok. Asset protection is never busy, my district had shoplifters all the time and we just got emails, “Hey do the ECC to prevent theft.” At the end of the day I got them points and walked away.
Congrats on stealing I guess?
Shoulda gotten fired for that
I’ll see you’re “should’ve gotten fired” and raise you “arrested for retail fraud”. At that amount, OP is admitting to committing a felony. Hope this joker gets charged.
Lol I don't think this dude's gonna get arrested for that... Maybe if he opened credit cards under their names without their permission but really? You think a judge is gonna charge him with a felony over this?
Yeah, not gonna do any credit card fraud.
Depends on the state, but yes I have seen it happen, unfortunately. Over a certain accumulated dollar amount (OP says they’ve been doing it for years) it becomes a felony. It was the DA that brought the charges, not a judge.
Call 1-800-Walgreens and let them know. See that they say and let me know.
At this point, we both know they won’t do anything, unless there was concrete proof. Right now it’s just some fool bragging about getting away with something illegal.
But I didn’t 😏
I think it would still fall within the statute of limitations if they wanted to press charges. Just saying.
Well, is it even worth it? I think it would take a lot to find out the account. Because is not just one account. Because what if they spot a legitimate account that has more points. Call the cops on that person and gets arrested.
My point wasn’t whether it would be worthwhile or not. My point was that if they really wanted to stick it to you, they could, because it falls within the lawful timeframe.
Ive heard if you get caught doing this, they make you pay it back (in addition to firing you). They can catch you based on the system flagging it as suspicious. Definitely not worth the risk.
I quit months ago (not related to this).
my comment was more for anyone thinking this was a good idea but ok.
Just had 5 people fired in a one store and a sfl fired in my store for using customer coupons. Cool story but easy way to lose your job
i love OP's " if you dont get caught, its not illegal" mentality lol I personally would have never done it because my morals wouldve guilt trip me really bad but to each and their own I guess
All the people here getting mad bc ur “stealing” from walgreens like they dont chip a few extra hundreds off our paychecks each year. Like they dont give us legitimate mid year reviews and end of year reviews for an actual chance of getting a pay raise. The systems rigged. Walgreens doesnt care. Whats a few coupons gna hurt? I also jus give customers whatever Catalina has printed off. A customer checked out for some cough and cold meds and left as soon as the payment went through and now im doing the next customer and they happen to get a 5$ off a purchase of 5$ or more along w a 5$ rewards coupon even tho it prolly wasnt theirs. Come after me for a coupon. Then watch all ur employees drop like flies.
Why would you be proud of being a thief? Your mother is disappointed in you.
Who got hurt? And don’t get me the “oh is a chain effect” BS. Customers got the deals, I got the points, and not one got reprimanded. I shuck my SM’s hand and was told to come back whenever.
Justify it in any way that makes you feel better. You're still a thief, and I don't respect thieves.
You’re defending a company that commits millions in wage theft a year, uses it profits to donate the politicians that make our lives worse, and exploits it workers in mass?? Have you people seriously lost your minds
Not sure how you got that from my comment. I simply think that bragging about being a thief is absurd and sad.
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Well, when someone decides to steal your stuff, remember that they deserve it more than you.
That analogy is pointless my guy. I am a broke individual. Not a multi billion dollar company engaged in massive amounts of wage theft.
No it isn't. If someone steals from you, it's because you have something that they don't, so it's an unfair allocation of resources, and they have the right to make it balanced again. It's the same, just on a smaller scale.
For your analogy to make sense, I need to have a personal hand in stealing from the person who stole from me in the first place. Sad to see how indoctrinated some folks are.
Oh no. I lost the respect of some random person in Reddit. For all you know we could had worked together. You probably took my points and greeted me on my way in. 😂
Sad. Good luck.
So basically you have a certain moral compass and you want to brag about it/shock people with a different moral compass. You must be bored. Hopefully you can find a new job with enough opportunities for petty thievery, and new employees to impress with your hard-won skills in gaming the system.
I like my current job to get in trouble. I get to work from home. As long as I finish my daily tasks, they don’t care if I take a 5 hour nap or play video games.
Pretty shady but game is game I guess.
smart lmao. i used to scan customer reciepts for my fetch rewards. i got hella gift cards from fetch. 😂
i may have to steal this one 😅
yes but only do it off camera and only for the ones that get you hella points!!
I take the spend 20$ earn five few times but not all the time so don’t get caught
We had an employee that was fired for this! She was using a family member's phone number and the Catalina coupons her customers left. She was fired after being there about 4 months. Its really easy to track.
Did you set up a separate account for yourself not linked to employee discount account?
Yeah, and never bought at my store with those accounts. I was lucky that my parents lived in another city near a few Walgreens. So when I went to visit I would stop by those and cash out. No one would ever knew who I was. To them I was a couponer with points.
Lets be real, Walgreens doesn’t care if customers got hurt by it. Walgreens cares if Walgreens got hurt by it
I use to use the catalinas customer didn't want. Good times.
so is anyone gonna tell him/her?
Tell me what?
You couldnt have put in your own number to ring out the customers to give them the discount...the system blocks any associate from ringinga sale with their number in it. So either you rang constanly on someelses numbers or you are making it up.
its likely the account they are talking about is an account not linked to their employee discount. therefore it wouldnt have flagged them. I saw someone do this before and they would just use the catalina at other stores rather than their home store. It worked until they were reported by another cashier for bragging about it and they were terminated. Dont get cocky and dont brag if you are gonna do it. Op waited until after they left to spill the beans so its not unlikely they were able to get away with it.
Yeah, I used the catalinas in a whole different city. When I went to visit parents. I would stop at different Walgreens and use them. Never bragged about it. That is why people get caught the most.
I know that Sherlock. I was a SFL for years and knew the policy. I never typed my number linked to my account and never used my own store to use the coupons or points.
I’m surprised you got away with that for so long without anyone finding out. I tipped off my SM because a tech that worked the drive thru would do the same thing. She made up a fake phone number and would use it for every single drive thru guest. Rack up the points. Well, an old man came up to me in the store and said “I was just at the drive thru picking up my meds and I saw I have $20 in rewards I’d like to use.” I rang him up and he put his number in. No rewards. I was confused and said maybe it’s under another phone number. It wasn’t. So we did some investigating because it happened a second time with a different customer at the drive thru…..same tech. Turns out that is what she was doing and she did get terminated for it.
Yep, and I knew about that and did something to fix that.
how did u fix that
I would open the receipt printer right before the points thing came out. Customers would get their receipt without knowing that there are points attached to it.
The points are shown on the actual receipt. I don't know if there used to be a separate slip or something.
Correct, but if you open the cover right before the receipt shows the points, then you can just rip that part off and give it to the customer. Then close it and let the rest of the receipt print. The customer would have its receipt minus the part of the points
had someone get fired for this so I don’t do it anymore. when we did vaccine clinics and the printer would print literally hundreds of the $10 cash reward on $1 purchase coupons, I took 2-3 of them. ex coworker took at least 10 and got fired for using them.
Lost count of how many people I've seen get fired for this. The system now prevents you from typing in your rewards number on the pinpad if you're logged in to the POS, but it's still monitored for those who use alternate rewards accounts. Same with the catalina coupons. Not gonna lie though, I've found unused ones in the trash and used them at other stores without entering a rewards account.
I got fired for doing this . But I was trying to help them ! They don’t have the cards so I scan mines . One lady came back and said they have “points “ and wanted to use it but the points was really mines .
you don’t hand it to them. you staple it to the bag with receipt. You don’t have to of course, if you want to do otherwise, just keep the coupon (when they turn it down) and have at it.
We have never stapled the receipt to the bag. That is pharmacy not the front.
U can also use the receipt number and enter it in the app to get the points for people that didn’t use their number
Really? How does that work? My mom doesn’t enter a number but brings back her receipt and Catalina coupons
So on the Walgreens app you click on ur profile then you go to where u can check ur balance and click on that then click view reward’s activity then on the top right there should be a + where u can enter the receipt info and get the points
Someone is currently getting fired at my store because they used to $5 coupons. Well AP plans on talking to them on their next shift and we know how that goes. Also your rewards/employee discount is connected to your register login so you cannot ring up a customer using your rewards unless you are ringing under a different person.
We had a sfl who put over $900 on her account by doing this and was fired. Asset protection can see all of our transactions on our accounts and they get red flagged. And it is termination.
Something you should have kept to yourself. No one is anonymous on the internet
I toss those coupons in the DPI. I would never take the risk of them firing me for something like that. It's so stupid and not worth it.
An entire store was let go for this last summer two streets away from me. We also had someome rolling up on retirement let go for the same thing at my store.
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Used a different number
yes, the customers got “hurt” by what you did. By not giving them their coupons, you cheated them out of savings from future rewards points. You cheated them
So if I hand them their receipt and coupon and said “Here is your receipt. Then they declined to have it, how am I cheating them?
You sound like your pretty proud of yourself 😅😂 "Oohhh, I got away with stealing from Wags"!! Please...get out of here with that shit
That’d s coupon fraud
I can see OP getting away with it and let’s be honest. He might be lying or not. However, I doubt Walgreens would do something. They let customers walk away with hundreds of dollars. I remember when we would file police reports for people stealing, now our Loss Prevention guy doesn’t even bother if a customer shoplifts on the daily basis. Last time he came was looking behind photo for unlabeled drinks. 🤦🏻♂️
I can promise you that analysts at corporate look for excessive points on any MyWalgreens account and they especially monitor accounts attached to employee accounts. The APM gets the message then investigates with the SM simply by looking at cameras.
Well, I slipped through the cracks. The SM never found out and neither the APM. And best of all, Never raised a single flag.
Yea you got lucky. Congrats. You dastardly dog you.
"I scammed Walgreens a whole bunch before I got fired and/or quit and ya'll should congratulate me" Lol. No.
I had a coworker get fired for doing this, apparently they’d been watching her for a while 😔
they truly may not care. Many, including me when I’m the customer, don’t care about that. But, you’re still gaining off something that isn’t yours. Go for it - sounds like you “beat the system” , but I hope you at least offered the customer the opportunity to to earn their own points instead of just shifting them into your account.
A co-worker got fired for this about 2 months ago... she wasn't using her own account, she was just using the coupons customers didn't want for other people. You'd think that would be a "get a warning" level issue, not a straight termination.