Walmart adds lines to coupon policy!!!!

[sixballoons]

Seems like a trend in the grocery world. My local IGA now has a limit on value of coupons used and the cashiers need to ask where you got the coupon from. Talk about sticking out like a sore thumb.

[Hoser]

Here is the link to the new updated the Walmart USA corporate coupon policy http://corporate.walmart.com/coupon-policy. Walmart Canada follows the USA policy, so pretty soon we'll see changes too.
As you can see new lines were added:

• We have the ability to limit the number of identical coupons and the number of coupons for the same item per transaction.
• In all situations, we reserve the right to limit purchase quantities to typical retail purchase quantities or one-per-customer or household and to exclude dealers.
• Store Managers have the final decision in taking care of the customer.
• The system will prompt for supervisor verification for:
  
  • 4 or more like coupons per transaction.
  • A coupon of $5 and over.
  • $50 or more in coupons in one transaction.
  • Coupons totaling a percentage (%) off of the total sale.
  
  

Also, definitely new lines:

We do not accept the following coupons:

• Checkout coupons
  
  • Dollars/cents or percentage off the entire basket purchase
  
  
• Print-at-home Internet coupons that require no purchase ( it means no FPCs? )
• Competitors' coupons
  
  • Dollars/cents off at a specific retailer
  • Percentage off
  • Buy one, get one free (BOGO) coupons without a specified price
  • Double- or triple-value coupons
  
  

They are trying to reduce the number of coupons per transaction, for sure, plus to limit the quantities of sold items...

Please note, that is the USA site and Walmart Canada does NOT follow the USA coupon policy. I have contacted them in the past and quoted stuff from the USA site and it is not exactly the same. However the coupon limit in Canada (although no real limit to identical coupons) is totally up to the store managers.