If you put a lot of time and effort into couponing, it probably shocks and saddens you when you happen upon fellow shoppers who ignore the sales circulars, pass by the blinkie machines, reach for the products that don’t have peelies on them, and blithely fill their carts with full-priced groceries. Not all of these people are clueless, though –[Read More…]
News began leaking on Tuesday as employees were informed, it was reported first here on Coupons in the News early Wednesday, and now Kroger has confirmed that it will roll out a new-lower-prices-and-no-more-double-coupons campaign in most of its Southeastern stores. Kroger’s Atlanta Division consists of roughly 200 stores in Georgia, South Carolina and parts of Alabama outside the Huntsville area.[Read More…]
Couponing is more popular than ever, with more shoppers using more coupons, and saving more money, than ever before. But wait – haven’t recent reports said that couponing is actually on the decline? Not across the pond. While extreme couponing is falling out of favor here in the U.S., shoppers are just catching onto the concept in the U.K. A[Read More…]
Like Sherman’s March to the Sea, Kroger’s campaign against double coupons has now reached the heart of Dixie. According to multiple sources, the Atlanta Division, which encompasses stores in Georgia, South Carolina and parts of Alabama outside the Huntsville area, will be the latest Kroger division to do away with double coupons, effective September 22nd. Kroger is not denying the[Read More…]
Late Saturday night, minutes before eBay’s new policy restricting the sale of manufacturer’s coupons was set to take effect, a search for “coupons” resulted in more than 50,000 items for sale. Early Sunday morning, after the new policy took effect, someone flipped a switch and coupons disappeared from the site, right? Wrong. Two days into the new policy, there are[Read More…]
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…]
