“Those shoppers are probably more price conscious, less courteous to employees and may not tip well.”
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What Should I Bid on a House?
Let me revisit a classic home buyer's question ("What should I bid on a property?") with some insights for today's modern, love-to-bargain, Internet data-filled world. It's a re-examination of home buying in a Groupon …
5 Ways to Stretch Your Summer Vacation Dollars
Fears of a double-dip recession are no doubt crippling a lot of people’s summer travel plans. Between small business owners who are canceling their vacations altogether to families planning yet another year of staycations, this …
How Coupons Became Cool
At some point over the last three or so years, coupons became cool. Once presumed to be the domain of eccentric cranks demanding a measly 50¢ off toothpaste or canned soup, coupons are now regularly used for deals on skydiving …
It’s a Deal: $10 for $20 Worth of Old Navy Merchandise
With today’s national deal from Groupon, $10 buys a certificate worth $20 at any Old Navy store in the U.S. or Canada. (No online purchases allowed.) The offer is available for purchase only on Thursday, June 2, and the Groupon must be used by July 30—after that, it becomes worth a mere $10 again.
How Humor Sells Silly Daily Deals No One Needs
Everybody knows that sex sells. Groupon is showing the world that bizarre-but-carefully-inoffensive writing can do the same.
Groupon-O-Rama: 10 Rising Trends in the Daily Deals Market
In the last year, some 23 million Americans bought daily deals. That’s a lot of people. And because of all that money being spent, the daily deals market continues to attract new players, new innovations, and new ways to convince consumers they’re getting a deal.
More Big Players (AT&T, Amazon) Enter Daily Deal Market and Offer an Easy $10 Off
Despite some indication that interest in Groupon and other daily deal sites is on the wane, the flash deals market keeps getting more and more crowded—with bigger and badder competitors. Facebook rolled out its deals service last week, and now Amazon and AT&T are jumping into the daily deal mosh pit as well.
Survey Stat I Don’t Believe: About Half of Daily Deals Are for ‘Needs,’ and Half Are ‘Wants’
In a recent survey, people said that 49% of the items purchased through daily deal coupons were “needs,” while 48% were “wants.” But come on, who are people kidding?
Will Facebook Deals Trump Groupon? Or LivingSocial? Or Google Offers?
Today, Facebook is launching a social flash deals service simply called Facebook Deals in five test cities: Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego, and San Francisco. (Why not NYC? Boston? Nothing in the Northeast?) On the one hand, the service is basically yet another of the hundreds of Groupon copycats, amounting to more daily deal …
The Latest Online Coupon Craze: Discounts on Stuff You Actually Need
Thus far, the fastest-growing online coupons have tended to be for deals on restaurants, spa treatments, and impulse type buys—fun stuff that consumers probably wouldn’t have otherwise bought if a deal hadn’t presented itself (and stuff they often regret purchasing, even at a discount). Trend-wise, it’s looked like these flash “deals” …
Consumer Phrase of the Day: ‘Lipstick Effect’
This phenomenon explains why, even as the economy tanked, real estate foreclosures soared, and spending at restaurants and car dealerships plummeted, women still found ways to pay for lotions, hair treatments, lipstick, and other beauty products.