Thinking about waiting till Saturday to stack the DG $5 off $25? Read this first — it can backfire fast.

My comments keep filling up with the same question:
“Should I wait for Saturday and add the $5 off $25… will it make this deal even cheaper?”

Real talk: Saturday can be awesome… or it can make you spend more.
Because what a lot of people do is panic-add “filler” to hit $25, then get to the register and—boom—

the $5 doesn’t come off. Now you’ve got extra stuff you didn’t even want your total is higher.

I’ve literally seen the same “deal” land at totally different totals: one person around $15, another at $18.60, someone else at $22 and mad about it. And most of the time it’s not because they forgot to clip coupons.

The #1 reason this goes sideways:

The threshold math isn’t the math you think it is.

At Dollar General, “$25” doesn’t mean “I eyeballed my cart and it feels like $25.

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It means $25 in qualifying items — the exact items the system counts.

So if you grab the wrong thing (wrong size, wrong variety, wrong barcode), or your store pricing/promos are different, your subtotal can shift.

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