Walmart Wants to Text You Your Receipt (and Coupons, Too)
Walmart is rolling out paperless receipts in stores nationwide, and users may benefit by receiving personalized coupons with their e-receipts.
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Target Wins Coupon Popularity Contest
A new study says Target has the most popular coupon website, for a number of important reasons.
Coupons Via Text Are About to End, Unless You Give Your OK
If you’ve signed up with your favorite store to get mobile coupons sent to your cell phone, better sign up again – and soon. Because if you don’t, in just a few days your favorite store won’t be sending you deals anymore. In recent weeks, many cell phone users have been bombarded and befuddled by text alerts from companies like[Read More…]
When is a Digital Coupon Not a Digital Coupon? When It’s a Paper Coupon
We’ve heard it before – digital coupons are the wave of the future. So why is the country’s largest grocery chain, with one of the largest digital coupon selections, printing many of its digital coupons on paper – right in its weekly ad? Who needs to mess with logging onto a computer and loading coupons onto your loyalty card, when[Read More…]
Could Too Much Grocery Competition Be Bad For Shoppers?
Competition is supposed to be good for consumers. The more that retailers have to work to get our business, the better the deals we’re likely to get. But executives at one grocery chain are suggesting the opposite – with so many big-box stores, drug stores and dollar stores getting into the grocery game, the deals at your local supermarket might[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…]
Shaw’s and Acme Ditch Loyalty Programs, Digital Coupons
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…]
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…]
Digital Coupon, Loyalty Card Changes for Albertsons and Jewel-Osco
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…]
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.
