$0 isn’t the checkout price — it’s the after-rebate price.
Big Game deal list this week is pulling from Walmart, Target, Kroger, Costco, Sam’s Club, Dollar General, Publix, and Food Lion with the usual party staples: pizza, soda, chips, dips, appetizers. A bunch of these offers are expiring around 2/7–2/10 (and yes… some are basically “gone in an hour”).

Now here’s your deal-group reality check:

If you see “FREE” pizza or a “$0” sparkling water… don’t celebrate yet.

Most of the time, you’re going to pay first, then you claim the money back in an app.

And THIS is where beginners get burned.

Because a lot of these “free” or “almost free” wins are powered by rebates through apps like Fetch, Ibotta, Swagbucks, and Aisle — not instant discounts at the register. So people go in thinking:
“Cool, it’s free.”

Then they get home and realize:

they didn’t activate the offer, or

they didn’t upload the receipt, or

they bought the wrong size/flavor and the rebate didn’t match, or

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