Supermarkets Install Sensors That Could Help You Save (Or Spend More)
An app developer has partnered with 150 grocery stores to install special in-store sensors that could offer you discounts.
Post Tagged with: "Coupons of the Future"
Get Coupons if a “Smart Shelf” Likes the Way You Look
What’s not to like about blinkies? Nicknamed because of the blinking red light on top of the little automatic coupon dispensing machines, they can be a welcome surprise when you come across them in the grocery store. In this age of printable, digital and load-to-card coupons, though, they’re just a little old fashioned. So one company is trying to bring[Read More…]
Earn Coupons For Parking Your Car
Coupons can sometimes appear in the unlikeliest of places – when you recycle your newspapers and magazines, for example. Or, when you get money from an ATM. Now, you can get coupons just for parking your car. A company that operates parking lot kiosks has partnered with MasterCard, to offer coupons when you pay for parking. The “unique couponing platform,”[Read More…]
“Aisle50” Saves You Big Bucks on Groceries – With One Small Catch
Coupons and sales aren’t the only ways to save money on your grocery bill anymore. Every time you turn around, it seems another app or website is promising a new way to save. There’s Ibotta, which gives you cash back after you purchase selected products. And Endorse – before it went bust earlier this year – refunded you a percentage[Read More…]
New ATMs Dispense Cash, and Coupons
For decades now, ATMs have made it easy for us to get a hold of our money. Now they can help us save money, too. A new breed of in-store automatic teller machines are offering coupons that you can use right there in the store where you plan to shop. The Australian grocery chain Coles is pioneering the concept, in[Read More…]
Sunday Coupon Inserts Are Going Digital
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…]
Target, Others Tell SnipSnap to Cease and Desist
(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…]
Ibotta Changes Coming: No Receipts Required!
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…]
Endorse Goes Dark: Coupon App Suddenly Shuts Down
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…]
Retailers Rebuff Snipsnap: So Is This App Ill-Advised, or Illegal?
For a coupon app that boasts that it “works at most retailers,” retailers across the country are lining up in opposition to SnipSnap.
