It turns out that although 220 million coupons were offered online last year for consumer packaged goods, they accounted for less than one-half of 1percentt of the 248 billion coupons offered over all.
So word that a recession began last December could bring an increase in the number of coupons offered by marketers, as well as redemption rates by consumers.
It is possible to see things like discount coupons offered for a nearby Starbucks, payable from your iPhone, with updates to Facebook about how much you liked that latte.
The app itself contains the coupons, offers and circulars for your favorite stores, and it will alert you using push notifications when a deal is nearby.
It also helps with finding the best price on Amazon purchases, doles out digital coupons, offers cash back, helps you track price drops and more.
The clever thing here is that the coupons, offers, punchcards punches, and payment info can all be transmitted during the barcode scanning process.
Coupons offered by businesses near the current location are proving popular in the Chinese market and click-through rates are high.
Best of all, the Schick Hydro that I bought with the coupons offered another 10 free music downloads.
The study, printed in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease, looked at more than 1,000 online coupons offered by six major grocery chains and found most of them were for processed food snacks and prepared meals.
