Treasure hunt time at CVS! All you have to do is find the expired food, and you get a coupon for $2 off a future purchase, for every expired item you find. Ready, go! It sounds like an extreme couponer’s dream, or perhaps a “supermarket sweep” in reverse – gather up all the food you don’t want, in order to[Read More…]
In the not-too-distant past, some grocery stores didn’t know what to make of those newfangled printable coupons that seemed so easy to manipulate and photocopy – so they simply stopped accepting them. Today, we’re all much more sophisticated, as are the printable coupons themselves. So the thought of anyone not accepting them makes it feel like we’re regressing to an[Read More…]
Coupons for Kohl’s are like those infamous coupons for Bed, Bath & Beyond – they’re always showing up in your mailbox. But for some residents of a suburban Detroit community, they suddenly stopped coming. Not because Kohl’s didn’t like them anymore, but because their letter carrier allegedly liked Kohl’s a little too much. In a criminal complaint filed in federal[Read More…]
They may be newcomers to the printable coupon scene, and they may not have coupons for all the top brands on their site just yet – but you’ve got to hand it to Hopster. They certainly know how to turn a hot topic into a clever promotion. The printable coupon site is running a “Double Coupon Day”, today only. Until[Read More…]
Once you’ve clipped all the coupons you need from your magazines and newspapers (and perhaps you’ve even read them, too!), what use are the rest? Perfectly good coupons that you just don’t happen to need, are going right into the recycle bin. But now there’s a better way. You can turn those unwanted coupons – in addition to the magazines[Read More…]
Social media has changed the way we communicate. It’s created entire new industries. It’s helped to topple governments in the Middle East. And now, it’s convinced a drug store chain to shorten its absurdly long receipts. Well done, internets, well done. After years of playing defense and deflecting customer complaints about its comically lengthy receipts, CVS has buckled under the[Read More…]
(Be sure to read this update: “CVS Relents; Shorter Receipts Coming Within Weeks”) “My CVS receipt is so long it’s being affected by the curvature of the earth,” wrote one CVS shopper. “Tonight I’m just going to stay in, relax and curl up with a good CVS receipt,” commented another. “A cheap alternative to buying a wedding dress is buying[Read More…]
There’s plenty of news about Target today, as it announces some interesting new programs it has planned, some new insight about a recently-introduced perk – and an apparent turnaround on what appeared to be new restrictions on its printable coupons. Let’s not bury the lead, and get to the coupon news first. If you’ve already printed those “one-and-done” Target store[Read More…]
Sweden is home to affordable stores like Ikea and H&M, so you’d think Swedes would be interested in couponing and saving money. But it turns out “extreme couponing” is not a thing, in the land of lingonberries and Pippi Longstocking. A new global survey of coupon use and shopping behavior finds that Americans still lead the world when it comes[Read More…]
(Be sure to read this update: “Target Tidbits: Two-Print Coupon Limit Restored, and More”) We’re only talking four coupons so far. But if it holds, it could represent the beginning of a troubling trend – Target is tightening up its printable coupon offerings yet again. Target generally releases new printable store coupons on Sunday mornings. This past Sunday’s offerings were[Read More…]
