Joline emailed me this great deal at Rite Aid – and she was even nice enough to explain it to me twice – because I was having a moment. So big thanks to Joline for not only the deal, but also for being patient with me as I went to Rite Aid with the wrong coupons!
Vick’s Sinus formula’s have been renamed to Vick’s Dayquil/Nyquil Sinex. The new packaging is prominently available in the Nyquil Formula, but some stores have the Dayquil new packaging also. They are on sale this week for $4.99 and get back $1.50 +Up reward. Use the $4.00 off 1 Sinex coupon that is in 10/10 P&G and you will have yourself a $0.49 moneymaker.
NyQuil Sinex $4.99
use $4.00/1 in 10/10 P&G
$.99 after coupon
Get $1.50 UPR
Free after UPR
You will want to look for the Nyquil Sinex Nighttime Sinus Relief UPC 3 23900 01130 4 or the Dayquil Sinex Daytime Sinus Relief UPC 3 23900 01135 9
Here is even a small scenario:
Nyquil Sinex $4.99
Nyquil Sinex $4.99
Nyquil Sinex $4.99
Nyquil Sinex $4.99
1 Gain Dish Detergent $0.89
1 Blistex Medicated Lip Ointment $1.49
Total: $22.34
-$4/$20 Video Value
-4 $4/1 Sinex (10/10 P&G)
-$0.89 Gain ($1/1 adjusted down)
New total: $1.45
Get back $6 in +up rewards and $1.49 Blistex Medicated SCR
Free + Overage after all coupons
Thanks, Joline
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My Rite-Aid in Ann Arbor (Jackson Road) had both ‘Sinex’ and ‘Nyquil’. I was able to get four, but the register beeped on the third one and he asked me for my date of birth!! They were out of the Olay ProX:(
I live in the short ad region and I have this deal and the olay deal and have really had many of the long ad deals lately. (With the exception of very few)
There are different versions of the short ad too.
RESTRICTIONS ON OVER-THE-COUNTER SALES/PURCHASES OF PRODUCTS CONTAINING PSEUDOEPHEDRINE
STATE LEGISLATIVE/REGULATORY RESTRICTIONS
A review of 2005 state bills and/or regulations establishing or enhancing existing restrictions on over-the-counter sales/purchases of pseudoephedrine products. For comparative purposes, applicable provisions of existing laws which were enhanced in 2005 are included. Also included is a review of 2006 state bills enacted by November 3, 2006.
MAJORITY OF STATES TAKE ACTION
41 states in 2005 and to date in 2006 passed measures establishing or enhancing restrictions on over-the-counter sales of pseudoephedrine products.
• 35 states passed bills in 2005 • 1 state – Virginia- issued an Executive Order requiring the state
Department of Health (DH) to establish restrictions; The DH issued an emergency order effective until July 1, 2006. Virginia’ 2006 bill will take effective on July 1, 2006 as the emergency order ceases to be effective.
• Alaska, Idaho, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina and Vermont enacted bills implementing new restrictions; Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, North Carolina, South Dakota and Wisconsin passed amendments to their 2005 laws.
Michigan passed HB 5822 in 2006 which bans Internet and mail-order sales of ephedrine/pseudoephedrine products.
COMMON THEMES
Restrictions on the Over-the-Counter Sales/Transfers or Purchases of Pseudoephedrine Products
Four (4) general categories of restrictions on the over-the-counter sales/purchases of pseudoephedrine products are found:
1. Restrictions on the display or offer of the products for sale.
2. Restrictions on who can sell/transfer and/or who can purchase the products, and the requirement to maintain a log/record of the transaction.
3. Restrictions on the quantity of a product that can be sold/transferred or purchased within a specified time frame.
© 2007 NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MODEL STATE DRUG LAWS (NAMSDL). 700 North Fairfax Street, Suite 306, Alexandria, VA 22314. (703) 836-6100. Research current as of November 3, 2006. This document will be updated as NAMSDL receives additional information about state legislative and policy activities regarding precursor chemicals and sales/purchases of pseudoephedrine products.
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4. Restrictions on packaging of the products. Restrictions on the Display or Offer of the Products for Sale/Transfer
1. Scheduling of pseudoephedrine as a controlled substance:11 states
Schedule V – Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, West Virginia (sole-active pseudoephedrine), Wisconsin
Schedule III – Oregon; requires a prescription for all pseudoephedrine products
2. Placement of pseudoephedrine products in specified locations.
State legislative language often lists the methods below as options, requiring only that one option be used. However, in certain circumstances multiple placement methods must be used conjunctively.
a. Behind a counter or in an area inaccessible to the public without assistance of an employee.
b. In a locked display case or other locked location. c. Within the direct line of sight of a staffed counter. d. Within specified feet of a counter.
10 feet – Missouri 20 feet – Michigan 25 feet – Tennessee
30 feet – Indiana (convenience packages), Louisiana, Maine (applies only to 60 mg. single dose packages), Mississippi (multi- active), Texas, Virginia (multi-active), Wyoming
e. In an area subject to constant video monitoring/surveillance.
f. Use of anti-theft mechanism or alarm system.
g. Use of restricted shelving which allows a pseudoephedrine product to be released only every 15 seconds.
Display of a limited number of packages of a brand or type in a public area.
No more than 1 package of any brand or type in a public area – North Dakota
No more than 3 packages or 9 grams of each stocked product can be placed on shelf – Louisiana
Restrictions on Who can Sell/Transfer and/or Who can Purchase the Pseudoephedrine Products and Log/Record Requirements
1. Seller/Transferorrequirements.
a. Products must be sold by pharmacy/pharmacist/pharmacy technician or clerk: 14 states
Arkansas, Iowa (except 360 mg. or less of liquid products), Illinois (except convenience packages containing 360 mg. or less of liquid products), Kansas, Kentucky, Maine (except 60 mg. single dose packages offered for sale pursuant to specified display methods), Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, West Virginia, Wisconsin
b. Certified/authorized retail establishment in addition to pharmacy: Alabama, California, Montana, Texas, Washington, Wyoming
2. Purchaser requirements. a. Person must be a minimum age: 19 states
18 years of age – Alabama (sole-active), Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Indiana (inapplicable to convenience packages), Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio (purchase allowed in selected circumstances) Washington, West Virginia
16 years of age – Alaska, Texas
b. Person must produce a photo identification, generally government or school-issued: 32 states
Alabama (sole-active pseudoephedrine; in lieu of photo id can provide two other specified types of identification), Alaska (incorporates by reference identification requirement in Combat Meth Epidemic Act of 2005), Arkansas, California, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois (alternative options provided in select circumstances if purchaser is without a photo identification), Indiana (inapplicable to convenience packages), Iowa (applies to liquid products of 360 mg. or less of pseudoephedrine), Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana (applies only if video surveillance is not used), Michigan Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri (if purchaser not known to pharmacist or technician), Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio(sole- active pseudoephedrine), Oklahoma, South Carolina (inapplicable to single sale packages of 60 mg. or less of pseudoephedrine) South Dakota, Texas, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
In Maine, the requirement to produce identification to purchase pseudoephedrine products is implemented at the discretion of the pharmacist. The requirement even when implemented is inapplicable to 60 mg. single dose packages offered for sale pursuant to specified display methods.
c. Person must sign a log or record of the individual sales transaction which is kept by the seller/transferor: 22 states
Alabama (sole-active pseudoephedrine), Alaska (incorporates by reference Combat Meth Act logbook requirement and exception re: single sale packages of 60 mg. or less of pseudoephedrine), Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa (applies to liquid products of 360 mg or less of pseudoephedrine), Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana (applies only if video monitoring not used), Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina (inapplicable to single sale packages of 60 mg. or less of pseudoephedrine), Tennessee (only written log), Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin
Four additional states have a log or record requirement but do not require the purchaser to sign the log or record:
Maine (keeping of a log/record is voluntary), Michigan (log/record requirement applies only if products are not stored behind a counter or in a locked case), South Dakota (record of identification of purchaser), Tennessee
Indiana requires completion of a log in a format approved by the state
police; this may require a signature. The log requirement is inapplicable to convenience packages.
3. Contents of log/record. Information often required:
a. Name of purchaser.
b. Date of transaction.
c. Quantity/Amount and/or name of product.
Information sometimes required:
a. Address of purchaser.
b. Record of purchaser identification, such as driver’s license number or date of birth.
c. Seller’s/Transferor’s initials, name, signature or identification code.
Restrictions on the Quantity of a Product that can be Sold/Transferred or Purchased within a Specified Time Frame
1.
Maximum amount of pseudoephedrine product that can be sold/transferred or purchased within 30 days.
9 grams:
Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, West Virginia
7.5 grams: Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin
6 grams:
Minnesota, Alaska, Alabama (The AL law makes it unlawful to purchase more than 6 grams within 30 days with the intent to manufacture methamphetamine. This is a variation on the traditional quantity requirement.)
Other time frames used to cap the amount of a pseudoephedrine product that can be sold/purchased:
a. In a single transaction.
This limitation is traditionally phrased as a maximum number of packages/grams of the product that can be sold/purchased in a single sale or transaction. For example:
Arkansas – No more than 3 packages or 1 package containing 3 grams or 96 units.
Hawaii and South Carolina – No more than 3 packages or 9 grams.
Idaho – No more than 9 grams.
Illinois – No more than 2 targeted packages.
Michigan – No more than 2 packages or 48 tablets or 2 convenience packages.
Missouri – No more than 2 packages or 6 grams of sole active pseudoephedrine; 3 packages or 9 grams of pseudoephedrine as a multi-active ingredient.
This limitation is sometimes combined with the 30 day quantity limitation. The legislative language sometimes caps the amount or number of packages/grams a seller can sell in a single transaction, and caps the number of grams that a purchaser can acquire within 30 days.
b. In a 24 hour period/Daily.
Illinois – No more than one convenience package containing no more than 360 mg. of liquid pseudoephedrine.
Iowa – No more than one package containing no more than 360 mg. of a liquid pseudoephedrine product.
Nebraska – No more than 1,440 mg. of pseudeoephedrine.
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Alaska (incorporates by reference requirement in Combat Meth Act), Colorado, Hawaii, North Carolina, Vermont, Virginia – No more than 3.6 grams of pseudoephedrine.
Washington – No more than one transaction per 24 hours; no more than 2 packages or a single package containing 3 grams in a single transaction.
c. In7daysoraweek. Indiana – No more than 3 grams (except convenience packages). Kansas – No more than 3 packages.
Restrictions on Packaging of the Products
1.
2.
Maximum amount of pseudoephedrine that can be in one package/product.
a. 3 grams – most common
b. 2 grams – North Dakota
c. 1,440 mg. – Nebraska
d. 360 mg. – Iowa and Illinois, liquid pseudoephedrine product sold by retailers
e. 120 mg. – Indiana convenience packages
f. 60 mg. – Maine, single dose packages sold by retailers and offered for sale using specified display methods
Pseudoephedrine products must be in blister packs: 12 states
Alabama (30 mg. or more of pseudoephedrine), Alaska (non-liquid), Arkansas, Georgia (sole-active pseudoephedrine), Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina (sole-active pseudoephedrine), Wyoming
No more than 2 unit doses in each pack, and if blister packs are infeasible, the product must be in unit dose pouches or packages: All states listed above except Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina
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Exemptions/Exceptions to Restrictions on the Over-the-Counter Sales/Transfers or Purchases of Pseudoephedrine Products
1. 2.
3.
4. 5.
6.
Products for which a person has a valid prescription.
Products purchased/possessed by or sold/transferred to persons in the lawful course of their business, e.g., pharmacist, physicians, common carriers.
Pediatric products administered to children under 12 years of age.
The legislative language sometimes requires the product to cap the amount of pseudoephedrine in a single dosage for the exemption to apply. For example:
a. No more than 15 mg. for a solid product
b. No more than 15 mg. per 5 milliliters for a liquid product
c. No more than 2 milliliters for a total package of 1 fluid ounce if the product is intended for children under 2 years of age
Products not found to be used in illegal manufacture or that present no significant risk of use in illegal manufacture.
Products formulated to prevent the active ingredient from being converted for use in illegal manufacture. A state will generally grant this exemption only upon application of the manufacturer.
Products that are in liquid, liquid gel, or liquid capsule form.
Traditionally states exempted/excepted liquid products in general from over-the-counter sales restrictions. However, several states narrowed this exemption as reports surfaced that liquid products were being used in the illegal manufacture of methamphetamine. For example, states:
a. b. c.
Applied the exemption to liquid products in which pseudoephedrine is not the sole active ingredient (e.g., Oklahoma)
Allowed only liquid products in small or low dosage amounts to be sold by retailers (e.g., Iowa, Illinois)
Maximized the amount of liquid products that can be sold in a single
transaction (e.g., Arkansas, Missouri)
Some states exempted liquid products but specifically authorized a state agency to regulate the products if the agency determined that the products were being used in the illegal manufacture of methamphetamine.
Preemption
States often preempted localities or municipalities from imposing over-the-counter sales/purchase restrictions which were more restrictive than those required under state law:
Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia (effective 1/1/06), Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas
Except that this particular medicine in question “the one for the coupon, they new type” should not include pseudoephedrine, that is probably why the package was changed.
Pseudoephedrine misuse/inappropriate sales is what has CVS in trouble with the feds and paying a huge fine, as they had been under investigation for awhile.
So if I did this deal a few times at a few different stores, am I going to have cops showing up at my house thinking I’m making drugs? Lol..
Has anyone done this more than once to confirm the limits?
@Mary,
No limit and stop making drugs.
For the short ad people (me included, I feel your pain!), there is a rumor that they are doing away with short/long and only having 1 ad. The sooner the better!
I agree- Thanks!!
Shannon, Just wanted your personal opinion about what you think of trying to use the sinex coupon with the old Vicks label? I just saw ra associates not accept it after the customer explained the name change etc (and the coupon got beeped) What do you think?
@Jenna,
Well I say no because it doesn’t say Sinex – regardless of the name change the coupon is for the Sinex. just my two cents.
I didn’t even attempt to use the coupons on the old packaging. This meant I only bought one Nyquil and one Dayquil. I made sure to check all the packages that were on the shelves for the Sinex kind…
One store only had the Sinex in the bigger boxes (the ones that Nyquil and Dayquil are combined in)…I suppose you could bring that up to the register to show that it’s a name change but not sure if that will work!
If you did this deal did your coupon beep? Mine did but it was the product so they let me use it. (new pkg) I was just wondering if everyone else had this happen.
@E, I’m really confused by new v old packaging (did sinex become nyquil, or the other way around?) but I got the exact package in the pic above, and mine didn’t beep.
So can you use the coupons on the old packaging with the same UPC #?
@Ann,
I think the coupons may be an issue on old packaging.
Federal law says that you can buy up to 4 bottles of cold/cough med at a time 21 yrs plus, all you have to do is provide your
drive’s license “local state issued”; blood pressure cold/cough med is 3 @ a time.
The key here is that you are always welcomed to go
back and get more if you choose to do so; but keep in mind
records are kept by the health department and from time to time
it is provided to the local police and state police, this is to avoid
the making of illegal drugs and children from using them illegally; assuming your local stores follows the guidelines this is how it should go.
We remember this from health law and public health ethics law.
@John,Mike,Ryan,Joshua,Brian,
Thanks to our resident future doctors
Just tried this deal and RA wouldn’t take my coupons she said the “sinus” on the old package wasn’t the same as “sinex” on the coupon!
@Ann,
There is new packaging that this deal is valid for.
I got 2 Nyquil and 2 Dayquil with some filler for the $25. The coupons didn’t work but the cashier was very nice when I explained that the product has changed names she took them for me. Woohoo!
I wonder if they may be doing away w/ short ads…I live closest to stores w/ short ad (which is always 8 pages..long ads are 12) next week it is 12 pages so hopefully they may be changing….fingers crossed.
How do I get it? I sign on to Wellness, but only see this week’s coupons. Is this a past week (that I should have saved somehow?)
Thanks for the clarification; I would have been a dummy as well
@Brandi and anna – I think it is state law. I am in Utah and I can only buy 2 at a time.
@ brandi….I was just going to ask that same question. I got some cough syrup a few weeks back during a sale (the one with all the robitussin and etc on sale) and I am wondering if it will allow me to buy these? I don’t know what the law is…and they weren’t willing to tell me at rite aid.
I tried to buy 6 nyquil yesterday only to be told per federal law that I could only purchase 3! Anyone else have that issue?
Bummer. I didn’t get that one.
Tina- I had no problems with the deal, got a bunch of Nyquil yesterday. Just hoping to get more coupons in this week to get some more. I live in the short ad area, so I feel your pain. It’s irking to find great deals, and then learn that they are not available to us. One of my store managers will price match the long ad, provided I have a copy of it. I have someone send me the ad each week from a long ad area. You may want to ask your managers if they do so. It won’t help with +up, but you can get some of the bogo, etc deals
I also wanted to state that the stores I visited had the Nyquil Sinus old packaging on clearance for $1.49. I’m not sure what percentage this is as I don’t know the original price, but with the $1.50/1 Vick’s product coupon we received in 10/10 P&G it will be free.
Any idea if this is an unlimited up+ deal?? That woiuld be so awesome- we actually need this stuff right now as DH is sick. Last year when I was sick, this was the only med that helped! WooHoo- I have a ton of coupons for this one too! Just added about 3 more riteaid trips this week!
There’s also a $2.00 off any Vicks product in the Flu coupon booklet.
Don’t forget there is a $1 off $10 Cold & Flu Wellness coupon, too.
oops we have the Nyquil deal here, but the Sinex isnt listed as one of the items. I will have to head up to my Rite Aid and see if they are marked. Thanks for the scenario, hope it works!!
@Tina Seymour,
Yeap Joline is in a short ad area and she got the deal. Yeah Tina.. LOL I always feel bad for you Tina. Just have them do a price check.. make sure you get the pills not the sinus spray.. not saying you would .,. I just know some dummy did –uh me!
I hate living in the short ad region! I cant do this deal and it is awesome! I am seriously considering selling my house and moving to an area with the national ad.
I cant even do the Olay deal this week. I even get the crappy coupon inserts. Life is really not fair. My dad wasnt lying. lol