Supermarket Eliminates “Confusing, Misleading, Wasteful” BOGOs
Studies have shown that buy-one-get-one-free deals are the most popular types of promotions in the grocery store. They help retailers ring up more sales, manufacturers move more merchandise, and...
View ArticleForget Extreme Couponing, How About “Wombling”?
Americans have extreme couponing all figured out. But in other countries, where there are far fewer coupons available, they’re turning to some other extreme ways to save at the supermarket. Like...
View ArticleShelf-Clearers Empty Store in Four Minutes
There are few things more frustrating than going to the grocery store to get in on a good deal, and finding that someone else beat you to it and cleared the shelves. So imagine how it must feel to...
View ArticleCashless Grocery Store Doesn’t Want Your Money
A newly-opened grocery store says it has just about everything you need. But in order to shop there, there’s something you’re going to need – a credit or debit card, or your phone. Because this store...
View ArticleDon’t Toss That Coffee Cup – It May Have a Coupon On It!
You can find peelie coupons on product packaging, and on plastic grocery bags. You may be able to get coupons from your ATM, and under the pop-top of your soda can. And now you can get a coupon the...
View ArticleGrocery Store Employees Sentenced for Coupon Fraud
No one does extreme couponing quite like Americans do. Couponing as we know it is still catching on overseas. Unfortunately, it seems, so is coupon fraud. Four British grocery store workers have been...
View ArticleCoupon Glitch Gives Shoppers Unlimited Free Ice Cream
Those coupons that print at the register after you check out are meant to be customized to your shopping order. If you buy a particular product, you might get a coupon for a complementary product that...
View ArticleGrocery Chain Sells Food That Never Expires! Sort Of.
Confused by the date labels on your groceries, and how to determine when good food goes bad? One grocery chain has a novel idea – get rid of date labels altogether and let you figure it out for...
View ArticleShopper Banned For Life For Pointing Out Advertising Error
Whatever happened to “the customer is always right”? If you ever discover a pricing error in a retailer’s ad, you might expect the store to honor it, or at least provide a good explanation as to why...
View ArticleGrocery Employees Convicted of Laminating, Using and Reusing Customers’ Coupons
You’ve got to admit that laminating the coupons was a nice touch. What better way to ensure your illicitly-obtained coupons stay crisp and clean, and able to be scanned over and over again? Proving...
View ArticleSupermarket Eliminates “Confusing, Misleading, Wasteful” BOGOs
Studies have shown that buy-one-get-one-free deals are the most popular types of promotions in the grocery store. They help retailers ring up more sales, manufacturers move more merchandise, and...
View ArticleForget Extreme Couponing, How About “Wombling”?
Americans have extreme couponing all figured out. But in other countries, where there are far fewer coupons available, they’re turning to some other extreme ways to save at the supermarket. Like...
View ArticleShelf-Clearers Empty Store in Four Minutes
There are few things more frustrating than going to the grocery store to get in on a good deal, and finding that someone else beat you to it and cleared the shelves. So imagine how it must feel to...
View ArticleCashless Grocery Store Doesn’t Want Your Money
A newly-opened grocery store says it has just about everything you need. But in order to shop there, there’s something you’re going to need – a credit or debit card, or your phone. Because this store...
View ArticleDon’t Toss That Coffee Cup – It May Have a Coupon On It!
You can find peelie coupons on product packaging, and on plastic grocery bags. You may be able to get coupons from your ATM, and under the pop-top of your soda can. And now you can get a coupon the...
View ArticleGrocery Store Employees Sentenced for Coupon Fraud
No one does extreme couponing quite like Americans do. Couponing as we know it is still catching on overseas. Unfortunately, it seems, so is coupon fraud. Four British grocery store workers have been...
View ArticleCoupon Glitch Gives Shoppers Unlimited Free Ice Cream
Those coupons that print at the register after you check out are meant to be customized to your shopping order. If you buy a particular product, you might get a coupon for a complementary product that...
View ArticleGrocery Chain Sells Food That Never Expires! Sort Of.
Confused by the date labels on your groceries, and how to determine when good food goes bad? One grocery chain has a novel idea – get rid of date labels altogether and let you figure it out for...
View ArticleShopper Banned For Life For Pointing Out Advertising Error
Whatever happened to “the customer is always right”? If you ever discover a pricing error in a retailer’s ad, you might expect the store to honor it, or at least provide a good explanation as to why...
View ArticleGrocery Employees Convicted of Laminating, Using and Reusing Customers’ Coupons
You’ve got to admit that laminating the coupons was a nice touch. What better way to ensure your illicitly-obtained coupons stay crisp and clean, and able to be scanned over and over again? Proving...
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