Couponing

Marketers: Beware the Coupon Mom

Marketers: Beware the Coupon Mom

Meet Gina Lincicum, a typical, suburban all-American mom of three: average build and height; short, curly brown hair. And she's a marketer's worst nightmare.

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How to Fill Your Pantry for Pennies? Yep, There's a Class for That

Gina Lincicum's latest effort to foil marketers' designs to pry more money out of consumers' strapped pocketbooks? Teaching couponing classes.

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Coupons Are Hot, but Are They a Bargain for Brands?

Once marketing's redheaded stepchild, coupons are now more than ever in the public limelight and are arguably the hottest property in digital media. But at the end of the day, are they helping brands?

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Flat-Out Greed Outweighs Savvy Frugality in TLC's 'Extreme Couponing'

Maybe I'd pick up some tips from these coupon ninjas. The only thing I picked up was a resolve never to become one of them.

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Marketers Dialing Down Volume of Coupon Inserts

Instead of pumping up the volume, marketers are now trying to make their promotions go further by teaming up with stores -- which are happy to coordinate in an environment that has consumers visiting fewer stores each week.

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Marketers Lure Consumers With Exclusive, Rare Offers

The definition of an "exclusive" coupon is a bit tough to nail down, though you're likely to be seeing more of them.

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Retailers Start to Suffer Super-Couponer Fatigue

A new sport for deal-seeking consumers, extreme couponing can be more of a headache for supermarkets and other retailers, which have seen their couponing models turned sideways by pockets of usage that go far beyond normal patterns.

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