Don’t want to clip coupons and shuffle off to the store? Well, now you can snap a photo with your smartphone and redeem that coupon digitally! Wait, that sounds familiar, and perhaps just a little illegal (read: “SnipSnap Coupon App Comes Under Fire”). But with SmartSource, it’s all on the up and up. The coupon provider is launching a new[Read More…]
As Kroger continues its campaign of eliminating double coupons region by region, many shoppers are resigned to the apparent inevitability that it’s only a matter of time until the entire chain does away with doubles. The company hasn’t said what its long term plans are, but now company officials are offering their biggest hint yet, about what’s to come. Let’s[Read More…]
One of the first things a new couponer learns is that buying in bulk is not necessarily the best way to save. Many shoppers may believe they’re getting a great deal at the warehouse stores, but you can often do better buying multiples of smaller items when they’re on sale and when you have coupons. Why pay 12 bucks for[Read More…]
As more newspaper subscribers get their news on screens instead of on paper, the venerable Sunday coupon insert has languished behind the swiftly-changing times. Despite the advent of electronic coupons, internet printables and mobile offers, the Sunday newspaper still provides the vast majority of coupons that are offered and redeemed. Now, one coupon provider is planning to shake things up,[Read More…]
If anyone had hoped that Kroger might change its mind and reinstate double coupons in areas where it’s eliminated the practice, think again. The nation’s largest supermarket chain is doing away with doubles in yet another region, after its latest earnings report indicated that it’s doing just fine without them. The next domino to fall is Kroger’s Delta division, which[Read More…]
With its limited selection, low prices and coin-operated shopping carts, ALDI has a lot going for it. But one thing keeps some shoppers from fully embracing it. ALDI doesn’t take coupons. The horrors! But as competitors try – and fail – to outdo ALDI, could accepting coupons be the one thing that sets others apart and really gives ALDI a[Read More…]
The other shoe has dropped, for the rest of the grocery chains recently acquired by the parent company of Albertsons. As their corporate cousins embrace “card free savings” and phase out digital coupons, Acme, Shaw’s and Star Market are following suit. Acme has ditched its SuperCard loyalty program, and Shaw’s and Star Market are expected to eliminate their Rewards Card[Read More…]
(Be sure to read this followup story: “EXCLUSIVE: SnipSnap is Sued, Accused of Infringing Coupon Copyrights”) The controversial coupon app SnipSnap is making a big stink about the fact that Target will no longer allow its coupons to appear on the app. But Target is not the only retailer to tell SnipSnap to knock it off. Spokespersons for both Target[Read More…]
Tired of scanning and uploading long receipts and multiple product bar codes, just to get a few bucks back on your grocery purchases? Hundreds of thousands of Ibotta users don’t seem to mind. But soon you can get your cash without having to do any of that anymore. Ibotta this week unveiled its first “receiptless” version, which links directly to[Read More…]
Walmart is not always known as the easiest place to coupon, but it sure made for easy money for a pair of Pennsylvania women. They’ve now been sentenced on charges that they racked up thousands of dollars in overage, by misusing coupons at several Walmart stores. Be warned – misusing coupons is not only frowned upon, it could also land[Read More…]
