Extreme Couponing: How to Use Coupons at Military Exchanges

Even if you’re brand new to troops hold up or are only a infrequent shopper around your bottom or post, you’ve probably noticed there are big differences in between selling during an Exchange (more similar to a dialect store) as well as selling during a Commissary (the grocery store). You can review about Commissary selling here, butbelow is report that will assistance we have a most of selling during an Exchange, additionally known as an AAFES or BX/PX.

As forked out in a Commissary post, DeCA runs as a non-profit as well as is partial of your troops benefits. In contrast, AAFES (Army as well as Air Force Exchange Services) is for profit, as well as they pump their earnings back in to a troops community.AFFES additionally runs things similar to a movie theaters, Shopette as well as gas station as well as works with a fast food restaurants as well as alternative businesses that might be upon your base.

Coupon Policy: Will Accept as well as Stack Military & Manufacturer Coupons

• The Exchange provides a great outline of their banking policy.
• In short, they will smoke-stack Military Manufacturer or coupons released by AAFES with manufacturer coupons, that during first glance seems similar to a improved understanding than a commissary. But remember, a AAFES has a mark-up, unlike DeCA. So equipment we can get during a commissary, similar to shampoo or chips, could be some-more expensive during a Exchange. You’d have to do a math to see if a capability to smoke-stack coupons have it a improved understanding during a Exchange. For example, if a bottle of shampoo is $4.00 during a Exchange as well as we have a $1.00 off manufacturer banking as well as a $0.50 cents off AAFES coupon, we could buy it for $2.50. However, if it’s usually $2.00 during a commissary, you’ll get a improved cost regulating a $1.00 banking there.
• You can’t use “commissary” coupons during a Exchange, usually a “Military Only” or “Military Manufacturers.”

Price Matching

• The Exchange has a cost matching policywhere they willmatch any “local aspirant upon an identical item.”
• The Exchange will NOT cost compare a commissary.
• If a cost challenge is reduction than $10.00, they’ll take your word for it as well as give we a competitor’s price.
• If it’s some-more than $10.00, bring in a ad that shows a cost of a item, or a sales join forces with can call a store as well as determine a sale.
• The Exchange accepts internal aspirant coupons as partial of this Price Match policy.And theory what? You can smoke-stack your manufacturer or troops coupons upon top of a Price Match!

Where can we find AAFES coupons?

• The first place to demeanour for AAFES coupons is in a stores. AAFES frequently puts out store banking books as well as ads, together with coupons for alternative shops as well as restaurants that might be in your Exchange. If we can’t find them, ask around.
• The Exchange additionally offers coupons as well as deals upon their Facebook page.
• Check a Commissary for coupons that say “Military” or “Military Manufacturer” as well as take them over to a Exchange to see if we can get a improved understanding there.
• And of course, regularly keep your eyes open for tear-pads as well as stickies. Sometime they have special ones only for a Exchange – that means we can smoke-stack it with your manufacturer coupon!

Clearance

If I’m essay about savings during a Exchange, we have to put a block in here for a clearway racks. At first glance a Exchange wardrobe dialect doesn’t demeanour similar to anything amazing, though if we wait for for a clearway racks – as well as then wait for for a additional mark-down days – we could get up to an additional 75% off. I’ve paid for wardrobe equipment for as low as a $1.00. I’ve been perplexing to figure out a rhyme as well as reason behind when a additional 75% off days occur. we don’t have it down to a science yet, though it seems similar to it regularly tends to be upon weekends. On my base, we’ve worked out a network of friends to widespread a word when a most appropriate BX sales pop up. It’s kind of fun to get a phone call saying “The Baby clearway is AMAZING! Get down here!”

You can use your coupons upon sale or clearway items, too.

Navy, Marines or Overseas?

I usually have experience selling AAFES (Army as well as Air Force Exchange Services) though if you’re in another branch, here’s a Navy Exchange policies. While we wasn’t able to find a overall Marine Corp Exchange banking policies online (it appears we might need to demeanour during your MCX’s store site), we did find a page upon MCX savings programs.

This is only a outline of a Exchange policies. For most appropriate selling results, review a policies, imitation them up, learn them inside as well as out, as well as add them to your binder.

This has been a guest post by Rachel from Ellsworth AFB, SD
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