Endorse users looking for deals are instead seeing the above image today, after the app’s CEO made a late-night announcement that Endorse is shutting down, effective immediately. Users have until the end of the month to cash out. Endorse signed on nearly two years ago, with a much more complicated – though more rewarding – app than the ultimate version[Read More…]
The reunited Albertsons has finally clarified some confusion and confirmed what many had suspected but hadn’t quite pinned down – the “Preferred Card” loyalty program is history. Oh, and so is the Albertsons coupon policy. More on that in a bit. But first, “our Preferred Card is no longer required at our stores to receive sales prices on items,” the[Read More…]
Procter and Gamble is spending a bundle on a promotion today that will put “high-value coupons” and tens of thousands of free products into the hands of New York City residents. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is spending a bundle on P&G products, with the help of generous 25-cent off coupons. What gives? While you debate whether it’s even[Read More…]
So it wasn’t exactly a free car, just a free car rental for a day. But for many disappointed customers, it turned out not to be even that. Now Thrifty Car Rental is taking some heat for accidentally offering a free coupon, then rescinding it. It started a few days ago, when members of Thrifty’s email list got a surprise[Read More…]
With a net worth of some $650 million, you probably won’t find former basketball star Michael Jordan clipping coupons. Especially if the coupons make him mad. One such coupon has him seeking damages of $5 million from a Chicago grocery chain, that claims all it wanted to do was congratulate Jordan for his success – by offering its customers a[Read More…]
In a reversal of the current trend toward gathering our data, accumulating “points” and loading our coupons onto shoppers’ cards, at least two newly-acquired grocery chains are heading in the opposite direction under new ownership. Jewel-Osco will be doing away with its loyalty card before the end of the month. And the Albertsons stores that currently offer e-coupons and grocery[Read More…]
There have been plenty of cases in which companies were caught off guard by a poorly-worded coupon that customers took advantage of (read about a bunch of them here). It’s unusual, though, for a company to complain that a coupon it issued was used exactly as intended. But that’s what Pep Boys is doing, as it declares one recent coupon[Read More…]
Couponers can get into spirited debates over things like shelf clearing, clipping services and whether you can combine a cents-off coupon with a buy-one-get-one-free coupon. But the most lively debate is sometimes reserved for what to CALL those little scraps of paper. Is it “coo-pon”, or “cyoo-pon”?? A North Carolina State University doctoral student is aiming to end that linguistic[Read More…]
For a coupon app that boasts that it “works at most retailers,” retailers across the country are lining up in opposition to SnipSnap.
It looks a little like something out of Star Wars – except instead of seeing a hologram of Princess Leia, you might see a can of Coke spinning around above your head. And instead of being projected out of R2-D2, it’s coming from a Rite Aid kiosk. Oh, and R2-D2 also prints coupons! If only the real Star Wars were[Read More…]
