The exclusions pretty much eliminate anything I might want to buy there!

I always have a 20% off coupon on hand in case a kitchen small appliance breaks down. That's all I've ever bought there.

My thoughts exactly

They haven't been doing great for a long time, seems like desparate times call for desparate measures.

That's what I thought, Lukkiirish. My dad was there recently looking at coffeemakers. When he told the employee he didn't have a coupon, he said "no problem." They'd give him 20% anyway, just for asking.

DD2 did buy a lot of Claritin pillows when she switched to a king bed. Would have been nice not to go into the store numerous times since they wouldn't let her use more than one coupon each trip.

For a while there I was finding that the regular price for things in BBB was 20% higher than at Target or Macy's.

I agree with bpathone. If you do your research, Bed. Bath and Beyond, even with 20 % off coupon , is not always the lowest price around.

Most of the time not, and that's why I don't shop there. Last thing I purchased was a coffeemaker that was on sale. With the coupon, it made it less than elsewhere. I'm sure the internet has hurt sells, but when you're paying retail rental rates, it's hard to compete.

Starting a couple of years ago our 20% coupons were only good for a limited time. If you didn't use them in that time frame, they were reduced to 10%.

The BBB I shop was already 50 miles away and they've recently moved to the opposite side of the city :( Add that to my limited ability to shop and I haven't been there in a while. I'd pay $29 a year for the full 20% AND free shipping. I wonder if that includes more than one household like Amazon. Probably not.

Where I am, they let you use expired 20% off and $5 off coupons in store, as many as you want. If you buy 5 items, you can use 5 coupons. I keep the coupons in my car too. They even let me use a coupon to order something from the web site as long as I ordered it through a sales associate in the store. (I had to go to the store.) They shipped the item to my house. I also recently used a coupon on my le creuset french press. So there is no motivation for me to sign up for the service in the OP. If they stop taking the coupons, I will probably shop around more as I don't buy a lot of stuff there in a year.

I do what linelle does. But it seems that I haven't purchased anything there in a long time. They are too high, plus the nearest one is an hour away from me. If I want something that bad, I can get it online, usually from Amazon or maybe even Walmart, cheaper and delivered to my door in 3 days.

I don't shop there enough and receive more coupons then I could ever use. Our area also lets you use as many coupons as you have items and they can be expired up to a few years.

At my local BBB the coupons never expire. I always buy EO shower gel there and its base price is no more than other places that sell it.

Same here. It seems our store takes expired coupons. I don't go that often, but there are certain things I buy there. Their store is fairly close to home.

I will put all the coupons in my car cargo net.

I wonder if they will start being more stringent with the expiration dates on coupons and how they can be used once the membership program gets started. I rarely go there as I can usually find the product I want at the same price or less online.

The big clue for me was a few years back I went into one in another town close by.. It had been split into 3rds and 1/3 of it was basically a drug store without the pharmacy. Displaying make up and hair contraptions on cheap racks across from the larger scaled displays of bedding was so strange to me. It screamed desperate; I didn't like it and haven't been back.

The same thing happened at a Best Buy in our area. It was a smaller store to begin with and all of a sudden half of it was filled with furnishings from a local furniture store. To make room, half of the inventory was gone forcing people to buy items online, drive to another store or go to a different store entirely. It didn't take long before the furniture was gone.

It had been split into 3rds and 1/3 of it was basically a drug store without the pharmacy. Displaying make up and hair contraptions on cheap racks across from the larger scaled displays of bedding was so strange to me. It screamed desperate; I didn't like it and haven't been back.

Yes, ours is like this. I hardly ever go in anymore.

They do have interesting products though. I go in there to look at everything, and to buy oxo palm scrubber refills. It's the only place I can find the stiffer ones that go on the stainless scrubber. I always learn about something new. Usually it's in the kitchen section. I like to look at the tableware too when they have the big displays of china and dishes. And I buy towels there - I like the microcotton and patterned decorative hand towels for the bathroom.

I like to look at the tableware too when they have the big displays of china and dishes.

But ours never has anything like that. All that space went for the drugstore stuff.

I don't go in BB&B often, but once they seemed to put Linens N Things out of business by flooding the market with 20% off coupons, the stores here quit honoring them after expiration and they sent out far fewer of them. I am starting to get them i the mail more often and I did get the email.

The 20% off coupons have encourged single larger item purchases or at least mid level purchases. That is what we have probably tended to do -- or a single smaller item we needed when we were there or couldn't find elsewhere. One summer when I bought some open stock flatware pieces (only BB&B had them open stock so I could replace lost pieces in my sons set) I also bought a set of 4 matching steak knives to get free shipping and then I bought a number of spice jars in the store because they fit my son's new rack the best. I MIGHT have broken even that year if I'd had 20% off all those smaler item, but that wasn't typical for me -- and certainly wouldn't' have saved overall. I thnk their goal would be to get me to them shop BB&B rather than Amazon or Macy's and I don't know that I would have shopped them any more if I ded have 20% off everything plus free shipping. That sounds lilke a different issue. And if they are canging the stores to be less inviting, well ......

I had a recent annoyance with BB&B. i bought a travel waterpic. When I got to NY and opened it, inside was a disgustingly filthy old unit. I'm talking very gross with built up yellow and other sludge hardened on. Some lazy BB&B person didn't even check it after a return before putting it back on the shelf. I always check the box tops but didn't think to inspect the bottom. All the rest of the box items were new and unopened. Some crook swapped out just the unit section.

I always have my BBB coupons with me (car or purse) and I'm able to use all the $5 and 20% coupons that apply, without expiration.

I don't go that frequently, but I'm a regular, if just to exchange my Soda Stream cartridge.

I don't shop there, although we have one in the city near me. Last thing I bought was a baby shower gift - ordered online.

I think BBB bought Linens n Things.

I bought a bed pillow at BBB recently and it reeked so badly from being in the store that I had to return it. I was afraid it would never air out. (And I didn't want to smell it until it did.)

Donna

I rarely go into BB&B. I find it a bit overwhelming, with too much product crammed into the space, including the aisles. My parents refer to it as Bed, Bath & Bullsh*t. I think a comedian actually coined that first, but I think it's rather fitting.

I don't go into BB&B much anymore either. Like others have said, you can usually find things cheaper somewhere else, even with the 20% off coupon. I keep them in my car just in case some small appliance breaks down and I can't find something anywhere else. They have a location that's very convenient for me. I stay away from the candle corner.

The whole place smells like the candle corner. I swear they pump BBB scent through the air ducts.

I love their Wamsutta sheets and the Yankee cancles have monthly "Scent of the Month" 25% off sale that you can use a coupon for after that, like a $5 off coupon. Love the Cranberry Chutney scent.

I've gotten fabulous deals on Mikasa and found my "Antique White" pattern on the BBB clearance racks for one reason or another, and snapped them up (like eight luncheon plates for $9.99, usually $10 a piece). Got our Fitbits there, and will stock up on sundry items when I have a 20% off your entire purchase coupon, which I receive once or twice a year. I think the 20% off coupons make the "Harmon" drug store items very competitive price-wise.

I would never pay for that service however. Not Prime either. I'm not paying a retailer to shop there.... except Costco. : (

Finally, Macy's is having their "Thanks for Sharing" promotion, which gives you 10% of your Fall-Winter purchases back in the form of a gift card in January. I paid $25 for that privilage, but it was taken off sale shoes, and the associate doubled that coupon.

I love the Wamsutta sheets.

I noticed some other company today doing this - join their club for a fee and get "free" shipping and a few other perks. Others must now be trying to get on the Amazon Prime kind of bandwagon. Doubtful that would work very well at places with more limited product offerings.