Get your free Lindor Truffles coupon! If you can. A few hours into Lindt Chocolate’s “1 Million Free Bags of Lindor Truffles” Facebook offer that launched today, we’re already seeing familiar signs of a promotion that may be too popular for its own good: a site that’s slow to load, complaints that the coupon won’t print, and frustrated customers branding[Read More…]
Many products in your local grocery store are about to turn pink – and that could produce some green, to help fight breast cancer. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and many manufacturers produce special pink packaging this time of year, to signify that they’re donating money to the cause. And coupon companies and grocery stores are getting into[Read More…]
Are you a coupon newbie or an old pro? Devoted to digital or passionate about paper? Coupons.com wants to know your “coupon personality”, and it’s offering a free membership to its Savings Club if you share. In honor of National Coupon Month, Coupons.com has released a coupon quiz that it says will help uncover your “inner couponing persona”. From now[Read More…]
It seems a bad experience with printable Lay’s coupons hasn’t stopped the company from trying again. With slightly smaller coupons. Winn-Dixie is following in the footsteps of Winco Foods, in becoming the latest retailer to offer printable coupons for Lay’s potato chips on its Facebook page. (September 21 update: and now they’re newly available on the Bi-Lo Facebook page. And[Read More…]
“End of Sunday Newspapers?” blares one headline. “The days of buying a Sunday newspaper in hopes of getting your money back in coupons may soon come to an end.” Now that we have your attention – SmartSource is offering digital coupons now. That’s all. So breathe. News America Marketing, parent company of SmartSource, announced today that SmartSource.com now features what[Read More…]
Learn how to go green, recycle your trash, and get coupons for your efforts. What’s not to like about that? Well, some communities aren’t so sure. Many couponers and earth-friendly consumers know all about Recyclebank, a company that “incentivizes green actions with points that can be redeemed for discounts and deals at local and national businesses.” Anyone can join and[Read More…]
Do you really want all of your Facebook friends to know that you “like” Twinkies? Well, if there’s a coupon involved, most of us apparently don’t mind publicly announcing our affinity for anything. In honor of National Coupon Month (read: “It’s National Coupon Month! So Where Are All the Coupons?”), Valassis has released results from its Fifth Annual “RedPlum Purse[Read More…]
It seemed a little too good to be true at first. And then it got worse. Now the saga of the Lay’s printable coupons may be reaching a conclusion – but only after confusing customers, a West Coast supermarket chain, a major printable coupon network, one of its top affiliates, and one of the largest snack food companies in the[Read More…]
If the stereotypical couponer is someone with a low-paying job who’s struggling to get by, the actual typical couponer would like you to know that they’re doing quite well, thank you. The printable coupon provider RevTrax released a study today, in which it found that the more money a person has, the more likely they are to use printable coupons.[Read More…]
Whether you blame greedy couponers, confused customers or a not-very-well-thought-out promotion, Toys “R” Us has become the latest retailer to experience a PR-disaster “coupon fail”. In such cases, when the dust settles, the store is left looking either like a villain – or a sucker. It started this past Sunday, when the toy store chain issued a printable coupon on[Read More…]
