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Coupons in the News: The Top Stories of 2013
From the demise of doubles, to coupon crime, to changes in couponing itself, here’s a look back at the 10 biggest coupon news stories of 2013.
The Real Reason So Many Coupons are Banning Overage
At least ten different companies are now banning overage on their coupons. Why? And why won’t most of them say?
Shaw’s Coupon Policy Disappears, But It Totally Hasn’t Changed, No Siree
If you’ve ever come across a cashier or manager who misinterprets or makes up their own rules about coupons, your best defense is a printed copy of your store’s coupon policy. That can clear up any confusion real quick. But now, one grocery chain’s coupon policy is causing more confusion than it’s solving lately – because it’s vanished. And store[Read More…]
Kroger Cashes in Without Double Coupons
For every Kroger shopper who’s vowed never to return to a store that’s ended double coupons, it appears there are many more people who are happy to keep on Krogering. In its newest quarterly earnings report, the supermarket chain said it raked in $317 million in profits this summer. Must be nice. So how much did you make this summer?[Read More…]
More Bad Kroger News: No Double Coupons, And No Lower Prices Either
(3/28/14 update: Kroger has now announced that it will discontinue double coupons in the Columbus, Ohio Division as well. Click here for more.) Well, the double coupon changes at Kroger are coming fast and furious now. Just a day after Kroger’s Atlanta Division announced the impending end of double coupons in Georgia, South Carolina and parts of Alabama, the Mid-South/Louisville,[Read More…]
Good Riddance, Double Coupons: The Silent Majority Speaks Out?
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…]
Kroger Confirms Southern Double Coupon Decision
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…]
Kroger Drops Double Coupons in the South
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…]
In Defense of Double Coupons: Not Every Store is Dissing Them
It certainly seems like double coupons are an endangered species lately. This year alone, four Kroger regions, plus Kroger-owned Dillons and Gerbes, as well as non-Kroger stores Meijer and Marsh, have announced that they’re doing away with doubles. Most believe it’s only a matter of time before other Kroger regions follow suit (read: “Kroger Confirms: All Doubles May Be Doomed”).[Read More…]
