@fivetalents asked:
What do these 2 deals look like for someone who does not have a Kohl’s credit card?
Kohl’s is offering these Black Friday prices to all customers, regardless of the form of payment tendered (cash, check, Visa, MasterCard, Kohl’s Cash, Yes2You Rewards…).
They wouldn’t get Kohl’s cash, right?
Between Nov 20-25, 2017, all customers will receive $15 (reg. $10) 
Kohl’s Cash for every $50 spent, regardless of the form of payment tendered.
Beginning Nov 26-Dec 06, 2017, that KC can be redeemed (spent) to purchase anything in the store (or online), including items that are generally excluded from general %-off sales (exclusive name brand items).
During this redemption period, Kohl’s will be running several promotions, including:
- 20% off storewide (Nov 25-29)
- 20% off select fine & silver jewelry (Nov 25-Dec 09)
- 20% off select toys (Nov 25)
- $10 off $50 select clothing, shoes, & accessories (Nov 25)
- $10 off $50 home (Nov 26)
- $10 off $50 storewide (Nov 27)
- $10 off $50 select outerwear, boots, cold weather accessories, sweaters, fleece, & bedding (Nov 28)
- 25% off storewide (Nov 30-Dec 06), which will also be a new KC earning period
If you set up a free online account at Kohls.com, you can increase your shopping savings by utilizing special coupon codes at checkout (Official Kohl’s Sales and Promo Codes Master Thread); as codes become active, Kohl’s will automatically place them in a “Wallet” to be utilized as an online code and/or as an in-store pass, along with any KC or Y2Y Rewards that you have available to redeem. For online purchases, simply enter the applicable code at checkout; in-store, simply show the cashier the pass on your mobile device (or print it out) for scanning.
To determine if a purchase is eligible to earn KC, Kohl’s subtracts department-specific discounts first, followed by $-off site-wide discounts, KC and Y2Y redemptions, and, finally, %-off site-wide discounts.
They also wouldn’t get YTY rewards (I don’t even know what that is or how to use them)?
Yes2You Rewards (Y2Y) is a loyalty program available to all customers – enrollment takes just a few minutes to sign up for free at any cash register.
For every $1 spent at Kohl’s, a Y2Y Point is earned (occasionally, Kohl’s offers triple points for every $1 spent); points accumulate until 100 are reached, at which point, Kohl’s converts the points to a $5 reward, to be spent on anything at Kohl’s during the following month (after which, the reward expires).
If 100 Y2Y Points do not accumulate within one month, they will not be lost, as with many loyalty programs, but will rollover from month to month until 100 points accumulate.
Can the Kohl’s Visa Prepaid cards be spent anywhere, or only at Kohl’s?
As @jmc reported, the Visa cards are generic and can be used anywhere that accepts Visa.
If the last 3 sentences are true, non Kohl’s credit card holders essentially/almost get a buy 3 get 2 free deal ($20 OOP for the first rebate offer or $15 OP for the 2nd rebate offer).
ETA: the OP says the 12-item rebate offer costs about $2 each when you buy three… but the math looks like a total of about $2 for all three (not $2 x 3). Am I missing something?
A purchase of three small appliances would look like this:
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Initial OOP cost (not including sales tax): $56.07 for three $21.99 appliances; $50.97 for three 19.99 appliances.
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Recoup $36 via three $12 Visa rebates, lowering the OOP cost to $20.07 and $14.97, respectively.
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Recoup $15 via Kohl’s Cash (assuming that you were planning on buying something else at Kohl’s, anyway), lowering the OOP to $5.07 and (0.03).
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Recoup an additional $2.80 / $2.55 in points toward your next $5 Y2Y Reward (again, assuming that you were planning on buying something else at Kohl’s in the future, once 100 points were reached), bringing the final cost of each to $2.27 + tax for three $21.99 appliances and ($2.58) + tax for three $19.99 appliances.
After sales tax of around $4 (taxed on the initial OOP amount), the adjusted OOP cost is about $1-2 per appliance when three are purchased; if more are purchased, as outlined by @jmc in a related post, the savings could be magnified.
Also, can you use both rebates?
Both rebate forms can be used, as the promotions are independent of one another:
According to the terms of each rebate, there is a Limit of 5 rebates per product per household, which sounds like Kohl’s will, for example, allow rebate #2 to be submitted for 5 waffle makers and 5 slow cookers and 5 large griddles and 5 small griddles and 5 coffee makers (= 25 items, $300 rebate). In that case, the rebate might be issued in the form of a check, instead of as a pre-paid Visa card.
As @MisterCheap confirmed with Discover Deals, certain credit cards offer extra cashback on department store purchases (5% of $56.07 = $2.80; 5% of $50.97 = $2.55), as well as special $-off rewards ($10 off $30); @jmc additionally reported earning cash rewards when purchasing Kohl’s Gift Cards at the grocery store.
To further increase your savings, numerous online cashback sites are vying for your click-thru to Kohl’s:
http://www.cashbackholic.com/cashback-rebates-kohls.com.html
Shipping will be free at $50; however, if you are concerned about your goods being damaged during shipping, by all means go for the BOPUS (buy online, pickup in store) option; for your sanity, just be sure to choose off-hours to pick up your order, because, as @MisterCheap so accurately described, the mayhem and uber-long lines blur between the POS registers and the Customer Service pickup desk for days/weeks after BF.
I’ve had success getting in and out quickly during the dinner hour and evening (Kohl’s extends store hours until 11pm and midnight until right before Christmas, at which point the stores are open 24 hours), but I think that I would prefer having dental work done over subjecting myself to the chaos in-store during the morning and afternoon, especially surrounding Black Friday and Christmas. But that’s just me. 
You always seem to have good fortune. 
because I found navigating the rest of the site to be cumbersome) but would love to see an alert feature here.