
We’re still two weeks out before Florida’s sales tax holiday on Aug. 3-5, where shoppers don’t have to pay sales tax on items like office supplies, clothing and shoes. But the major chains are already boasting sales on back to school merchandise.
Here’s a round up sales around South Florida this week:
Toys R Us sales starting Sunday, July 22:
- Free lunch kit valued at $9.99 or lower with the purchase of any backpack priced at $12.99 or higher
- Free Batman Dark Knight Rises backpack with any Batman Dark Knight Rises purchase totaling to $30 or more
- Buy one, get one free on all Crayola Color Explosion and Color Wonder products
- Buy one, get one free on all Crayola crayons, markers, pencils and paints
- Buy one, get one 50 percent off all Fit & Fresh, Thermos and Zak food and drink containers
- Buy one, get one 50 percent of all Gelarti arts and crafts
- Buy one, get one 50 percent all Totally Me! Arts and crafs
- Save $40 on the Archos Armoba 10-inch Android 4.0 ICS Tablet – Was $219.99, now $179.99
Kohls sales on Friday, July 20 from 3 p.m. – 11 p.m. and Saturday, July 21 from 7 a.m. – 1 p.m.
- 10-50 percent off plus an extra 10 percent off select styles of athletic shoes for the family
- 40-50 percent off plus an additional 10 percent off select knit tops and activewear for juniors
- 45 percent off plus an extra 10 percent off select styles collection T-shirts for men
- 40-50 percent off and an additional 10 percent off all Chaps school uniforms for girls, sizes 4-16 and boys sizes 4-20.
- - 40-50 percent off all character backpacks
- 40-50% off + an extra 10% off all Chaps school uniforms for girls 4-16 and boys 4-20 and character backpacks
CVS Pharmacy sales through Saturday, July 21:
- 88 cent CVS tissues for 75-90 count or 184 family size, limited to 10 per person.
- 10 Caliber 2-pocket folders for $1
- 3 Caliber 1-subject notebooks for $1 with CVS Extra Care Card
- $1each for Mead index cards, Caliber pencils, multi-size sharpeners or envelopes with CVS Extra Care Card
- $3 Expo dry erase markers (4-count) with CVS Extra Care Card
- $3 Caliber tree-free multipurpose paper with CVS Extra Care Card
- By one, get one 50 percent off all scotch mailing tape, Paper Mate mechanical pencils, Philips headphones or chargers
Office Depot sales through Saturday, July 21:
- 10 cents for Office Depot brand 2-pocket folders with and without prongs – limited to 10 per person
- 10 cent pecent pencil sharpeners
- 50 cent flexible rulers, limit three per person
- 50 cent Crayola crayons – 24 pack, limit three per person
- $2 8-ounce Purell hand sanitizer
- $2 Fiskars scissors
- $2 Elmers X-Treme glue stick
- $2 Office Depot tissues – 80 count per box
- $3.99 1-inch binders
- $4 each for Post it flags, clipboards, Scotch double-sided tape, copy paper, 3-hole punches
- $6 each for binder clips, Swingline SmartTouch staplers, stacking crates, Post-It sticky notes
- $7.99 Altiva 4GB Fashion USB drive
- $17 Office Depot folding cart
- 25 percent off backpacks, sheet protectors and dividers
Target sales through Saturday, July 21:
- 25 cents each for RoseArt 4-ounce school glue and RoseArt glue sticks
- 99 cents each for Bic crystal pens and Crayola crayons
- $1 Trend notebooks and composition books
- $1.50 each for Trend pencil cases, erasers, wood pencils, Glam pencil sets, Glam notebook, Glam scissors
- $2 Lego or Hello Kitty notebooks
- $8 lunch kits
- $9.99 Lexar 16GB USB drive
- $13-$40 backpacks
Staples promotions, good through Saturday July 21:
- 1 cent writing pad, limit two per person
- 1 cent insertable tab dividers
- Free Bix matic 0.7 mm mechanical pencils with rebate
- 25 cent Bic Velocity tractable ballpoint pens, 2-pack
- 50 cent Lucky SuperSoft antinacterial wet wipes
- 50 cent for each Staples single hole manual pencil sharpener, Westcott 12-inch finger-grip ruler, Stables translucent pencil box
- $1 each for Staples plastic clipboard, Staedtier compass or protractor, dry erase markers, dry erase board cleaner, Zebra Z-Grip retractable ballpoint pens
- $1 each for Staples multipurpose paper, after rebate
- $2 Purell instant hand sanitzer
- $2 for each Stables memo books, notepad with pen, 13-pocket poly expanding coupon file, Bic brite liner grip highlighters, Scotch tape
- $3 Bic White out – tape, liquid or pens, Stables mesh zip envelopes, assorted Crayola products
- $5 Westcott scissors 3-pack
- Two for $7, Avery half-inch or 1-inch binders
- Two for $9 Averay Mini binders
- Two for $10 Avery 1.5-inch binders
- $9.99 for Texus Instruments TI-30Xz calculators
- Buy one get one free all Bic Atlanis pens and pencils
Walgreens promotions through Saturday, July 21:
- 39 cents for each pencils, pencil sharpeners, pencil case, index cards, index card case
- 49 cents for notebooks
- 69 cent composition books
- 79 cent Elmers glue and glue stick
- Six for $1 2-pocket folder with prongs
- $3.99 for Adventure Trails backpack
Walmart sales through Saturday, July 21:
- 10 cent Elmer’s washable glue stick
- 15 cent 2-pocket paper folders, 2-pocket folders with prongs
- 17 cent notebooks
- 50 cent Crayola crayons, Elmer’s school glue, composition notebook
- 88 cent Wilson Jones 5-tab dividers
- 92 cent 1-inch binder
- 97 cent Crayola colored pencils, markers, Bic cristal pens, 1-subject notebook
- $1.12 Dixon pencis
- $1.47 Bic mechanical pencils
- $1.84 White dudes USA gold pencis
- $2.47 Papermate profile ball point pens, fashion notebook, 1-inch binder with clear cover
- $2.50 expo markers, Avery 5-tab dividers
- $3.47 Five Star reinforced filler papper
- $4.47 Pilot G2 gel pens
- $9.94 1.5-inch or 2-inch Pro Platinum zipper binder
- $12.97 2-inch Five Star Xpanz zipper binder
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