You spend hours and hours carefully curating the best baby registry … and then people ignore it entirely. Not that you don't appreciate every gift – but you spent hours! You asked friends! You read reviews! You put tons of thought into not only what you wanted, but what you needed. Okay, granted, it may not be quite as much fun to buy a baby monitor or diapers as it is picking out a teeny-weeny little baby outfit, but you really tried to cover all bases.
Luckily, you have a secret weapon on your side: baby-registry completion discounts. Stores know very well that you're unlikely to get all of the items you registered for, will maybe even get only a small number of them, and they don't want to miss out on those sales. Thus, the completion discount: a certain percentage off anything and everything you buy from your own registry, from diapers to big-ticket items like strollers, car seats, cribs, and baby furniture.
Not every store that offers a baby registry offers a completion discount, but if you register at one that does, the savings can range from 10 to 20 percent. These registries also vary in their terms – when the discount starts, when it ends, what you can buy using it – so comparisons are in order. (Note that you can register and accept completion discounts from more than one store.)
Because no two baby registries are the same, here are the top registry-completion discount options, and the specifics of each. By the way, if you're looking for parents' other favorite registry perk, free baby registry welcome boxes, we have the lowdown on those, too.