The presentation of a daily deal from Groupon, LivingSocial, and others is fairly standard. Along with a description of the deal, there are always three numbers displayed prominently: the original price, the discounted price, and …
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What’s Next for Daily Deals: Rewards Programs and (Perhaps?) Branded Credit Cards
The daily deal market led by Groupon and LivingSocial has undeniably gotten popular over the past few years. Some 23 million consumers bought daily deal vouchers last year, and hundreds of startups have tried to get a piece of …
Daily Deal Disappearing Act: One-Third of Deal Sites Sold or Closed This Year
As the daily deal craze took off over the past two years, hundreds of upstart flash deal sites jumped into the marketplace to try to get a piece of the action dominated by Groupon and LivingSocial. Almost from the start, though, …
Half-Priced Food! First-Ever Nationwide Daily Deal on Groceries
Daily deal site LivingSocial is teaming up with Whole Foods for a very special, first-of-its-kind promotion: Today only (Tuesday, September 13), $10 buys a voucher worth $20 of merchandise at the supermarket chain. LivingSocial …
There’s a Groupon for Everything, Including … College?
The daily deal model works well with restaurants, spas, and other small, service-oriented businesses. But Groupon and other daily deal sites are constantly branching out, experimenting with specially discounted vouchers for …
How Daily Deals Are Losing Their Allure — For Businesses and Consumers Alike
Two big names are dropping out or seriously scaling back their interests in the daily deal marketplace, an oversaturated field with hundreds of competitors that’s still mostly dominated by dominated by Groupon and LivingSocial. …
A Day Late and a Dollar Short? IPOs On Ice Until Market Improves
With Wall Street in chaos, IPO candidates are forced to play a waiting game.
“We see people selling deals for about the same price they bought them for, or even less because they want to get rid of the deal quickly.”
Can You Buy Stuff Online Without a Credit Card?
Last week, Apple introduced OS X Lion, the newest version of its Mac operating system. Among the usual tech buzz about features, innovations and glitches was Apple’s striking choice to make OS X Lion available only via the Mac …
The Backlash Against Online Daily Deals
More than 1 in 5 daily deal vouchers are never used. Increasingly, customers who do redeem them complain of pushy upselling, tricky fine print, or that the service or product was a poor value or just plain bad, no matter how big …
“We want to gorge night after night on affordable Thai fare and to guzzle Merlot at wine bars seemingly more numerous than all the grapes in America, and then to drop hundreds of dollars on removing the dental stains and fleshly dimples that result. ”
Real Estate’s in the Tank? Not in the Land of IPOs
It’s been what my grandmother would call “a month of Sundays” (i.e., a long, long time) since we’ve heard of a local housing market that wasn’t in the doldrums. In fact, much of the country is now officially in the …