Walmart Ad-Match Guarantee

Save Time and Money with Walmart Ad-Match Guarantee Program

It is that time of the week when your postmaster delivers a bundle of weekly ads that comes from your local stores to your mail box. You sort through each ad to see where you can buy the cheapest produce, fruits, dairy's and everything you will need for the next week or two. Then you try to figure out how will you manage your time to visit each store to get the best deal for each item you need to buy because the sales price on products you need are listed in different stores. 

If you are lucky enough to have a Walmart store in your area especially the Walmart Supercenter which also carry fresh produce and vegetables then you can save both time and money by just visiting your local Walmart store.  Walmart will price match any competitors price as well as accept competitors coupon and manufacturers coupon as long as the coupon have bar codes in it.  

To summarize the Walmart's Ad-Match guarantee, it will take any local competitor's ad that have a price and/or weight  i.e.  Colgate Toothpaste for $1.00 or rib eye steak for $3.50/lb.  They will not accept ads like Colgate Toothpaste  for .50c off. unless it is an actual coupon with bar code or the ad also included a price.

Tips for no-hassle price matching at Walmart.

1. Print the WalMart Ad-match guarantee and show it the cashier: Walmart have high turnover on employees and some employees have no idea on how to handle this and may just tell you that it is not possible.

2. Bring the ad with you: Walmart website says that you don't need to bring the ad. This is because they do keep the competitors ad on each station anyway and the cashier can look on their copy to verify the price. However, having the ad with you will make the cashier happy. They will be able to process your purchase faster as you will save them time by just presenting the item they need to see.

3. Find a coupon/ad friendly Cashier: Once you found a coupon and ad friendly cashier, try to stay with them the next time you do your purchase as they can process you faster.  I also noticed that each cashier have follow their own set of rules on doing an Ad-Match. I love buying beef ribs and steak at Walmart. They have a center cut ribs that is vacuum packed for around$4.99/lb.  If I have an ad from a competitor that shows rib for $.99/lb I know which cashier to go to as she will take that competitors ad and apply it to the vacuum packed center cut rib. Other cashier will tell me that I can only buy the regular wrapped rib which they don't have on my local Walmart store. Hint: Upon entering the store, look at the picture of employees and see who is the best cashier of the month or who is the team lead as they will usually be the one who can approve such substitute.

4. Show the ads upon check in: Make sure to show the ads prior to the cashier scanning the items so that they can do the adjustment right away. If you do it after all the items are scanned, it will take you forever to wait for the unhappy cashier to do all the corrections or they may just tell you that it is not possible unless you return the items first which means, you have to go to the returns department which will add more time to your wait.

5. Separate price matched items to regular items: I always put the regular items to be scanned first then go through each items that needs to be price match. This way, I can make sure that all items that needs to be price matched are processed properly. It also makes it easy to revisit your receipt as they will all be lined up at the end of the receipt.

Below is the Walmart ad-match guarantee as of this writing.

Good Luck!

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Walmart's Ad-Match Guarantee Corporate Website

We’re committed to providing low prices every day. On everything. So if you find a lower advertised price on an identical product, tell us and we’ll match it. Right at the register.

We gladly match the price in the following types of ads:*

• Buy one, get one free ads with a specified price
  • Example: Buy one for $2.49, get one free (BOGO)
• Competitors' ads that feature a specific item for a specified price
• Preferred shopping card prices for specific items that are in a printed ad
• For fresh produce and meat items when the price is offered in the same unit type (lb. for lb.; each for each)

*The following are guidelines and limitations:

• We will match any local competitor's advertised price.
• We do not require customers to have the ad with them to honor a competitor's ad.
• Items purchased must be identical to the ad (size, quantity, brand, flavor, color, etc.)

We do not match the price in the following types of competitor ads:

• Items that require a separate purchase to get the ad price
  • example: "Buy [item A] to get [item B] for $C"
• Items with no actual price that require a purchase to get free product
  • example: "Buy both [items A & B] to get [item C] for free"
• Items that require a purchase to get a competitors' gift card
  • example: "Buy [item A] to get a $B gift card
• Buy one, get one free (BOGO) ads with no actual price given
• Going out of business or closeout prices
• Percentage off
  • example: "All mascara, 40% off"
• Competitors' private label price promotions

We do not honor:

• Ads when the actual price for items cannot be determined
• Internet pricing
• Misprinted ad prices of other retailers
• "Going out of business" sales or "closeout" prices