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For online holiday shopping this season, get your Facebook and Twitter on, consider expanding your repertoire of retailers and bring your most comfortable slippers. It’s going to be a more challenging effort this year than last when the recession was “new,” and retailers were frantically pushing heavily discounted products from HDTVs to clothing.
In an Aug. 27 story about the next generation of coupons, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of a frequent coupon user. Her name is April Engelbert, not Englebert.
Put down the scissors: Coupons are increasingly available by phone, by e-mail, online and in other digital forms. Here are hints on how to stretch your budget with the latest generation of an old standby.
Electronic coupons, arriving by cell phone, Twitter, e-mail and Facebook, are helping generate an old standby's comeback and bringing in new, younger customers.
OK, all you bargain hounds out there, here’s a little rhetorical pop quiz for you: As the economy keeps sagging, is your arsenal of deal-finding skills growing? Even if you pride yourself on nabbing good buys on a regular basis, do you — yes, even you — sometimes drop the ball?
Here's the number to remember June 12 if your television doesn't get your regular channels, if you waited until the last minute to make the transition to digital TV, or if you have any questions about it: 1-888-225-5322 (1-888-CALL FCC).
The agency that mails out coupons for digital TV converter boxes expects to eliminate its wait list in two and a half weeks, an official said Thursday.
The House voted Wednesday 264-158 to delay the analog TV shutdown until June 12.
Are you, like millions of people across the globe, in the habit of breaking your New Year’s resolutions shortly after you make them?
These days, when it comes to saving money, families need all the help they can get. So what if we told you that you could save $1,000 or more a year with coupons?
While most forms of advertising are getting better at targeting likely customers, coupons rarely hit the mark. To wit: U.S. consumers redeemed less than 1 percent of the estimated 285 billion coupons issued last year for groceries and various packaged goods.
AOL wants you to stop clipping coupons or even printing them out. The company is launching a new service, Shortcuts, for manufacturers to distribute coupons on the Internet.
House lawmakers don't want the cost of a television coupon program to catch them by surprise — or without enough money to ensure millions of Americans can still watch TV after their analog sets flicker out of existence.
Americans worried about losing their television signals when analog goes dead next year now have a new concern: the government-issued coupons for the converter boxes have a short shelf life.
Some coupon users are clicking instead of clipping these days to get their grocery discounts.
Mom Feeds Family of Six on About $4 a WeekThe coupon maverick went shopping with "Good Morning America" recently to show viewers how to hoard coupons to get the most out of their next trip to the supermarket. Spencer spends a couple of hours every week scanning newspapers, circulars and the Web.
Affluent Consumers Clip Coupons. Poor People? Not So Muchexcerpt: ""Some 1.6 billion coupons were redeemed in the U.S. in the first half of 2009. That's up 23 percent compared to last year. Who is turning all those coupons in to save on purchases? Odds are it's a suburbanite who is fairly well off.
http://blogs.wsj.com/wallet/2009/08/11/finding-group-discounts-online/A friend of the Wallet recently pointed me to Groupon.com, a site that offers group discounts for products and services in different areas
Save now! 10 tips to be a better coupon sleuthIt can be remarkably easy to forget to use paper coupons or electronic coupon codes - or to fail to bother tracking them down because it seems like too much of a pain. 10 Tips columnist Laura T. Coffey offers advice to help you upgrade your coupon skills with ease.
I was at Kogers this week and couldn't help but notice the lady in front of me had clipped coupons, and you won't believe this...she saved about $33.00.
700,000 called digital TV hotline this weekNearly 700,000 people called a federal hotline this week, confused about the nationwide switch from analog to digital TV broadcasts that occurred Friday.
Cal pharmacies to offer $2 for expired product SAN DIEGO -- Consumers will receive a $2 coupon if they find expired products on the shelves of some California pharmacies.
Lessons Learned From The Great Free-Chicken Fiasco Of 2009Oprah Winfrey probably thought she would see nothing but an explosion of gratitude when she tried to treat the entire Internet to two pieces of KFC's new Kentucky Grilled Chicken by promoting a downloadable coupon (no longer available) that could be redeemed at "participating res …
Oprah helps give away KFC grilled chicken - By the Way, she Received PETA 2008 Person Of Year RewardOprah Winfrey is buying everyone 2 piece meal deal consisting of Free 2 Piece Grilled Chicken, 2 sides and a Biscuit. It was promoted on today show on Tuesday, May 5th 2009.
Yowza!! - Location Based CouponsWe recently heard about a pretty cool application called Yowza!! Yowza!! is a location based coupon application. Not only does it display deals that are near your location, it also has the ability to display/scan coupons right on your iPhone or iPod Touch's screen
RetailMeNot Adds Printable Coupons for Offline Savings - retailmenotPopular online coupon search web site RetailMeNot has added a new printable coupon feature that indexes over 90,000 printable coupons for saving cash when you're not shopping online.
Cereal Tops February List of Most Popular Coupon Categories According to Coupons.comIt's very interesting to see the most popular categories of coupons online. Wonder if this is supply or demand related?
How to get $100 worth of groceries for 25 centsYou can cut your grocery bill in half when you know how to use coupons and store promotions along with sale prices on your favorite items. For a family of four, that may be a savings of $100 per week or as much as $5,000 per year.
Event Encourages Shoppers to Give Back and Receive DiscountsStein Mart has partnered with The Salvation Army for the second consecutive year for the national Give & Receive event
Finding Coupons Online Has Increased to Stretch Grocery Budgets - WSJ.comBefore heading to the grocery store, Miranda Wilcox jumps online, where she scours for coupons on half a dozen Web sites bookmarked on her computer.
Be savvy! 10 ways to save on groceriesLearn how to save dough in the supermarket from Dollar Savvy magazine's Winter 2009 issue, which shares tips on cutting costs without changing your lifestyle drastically.
Converter-box program running out of moneyThe Feb. 17 transition from analog to digital television broadcasts looms and as many as 8 million households are still unprepared, but the government program that subsidizes crucial TV converter boxes is about to run out of money.
Wait Begins For DTV Converter Box Coupons - Detroit Local News Story - WDIV DetroitWASHINGTON -- There's a waiting list for anyone applying for federal coupons to pay for converter boxes ahead of the transition to digital television broadcasts, the Commerce Department said
Converter-box program running out of moneyThe Feb. 17 transition from analog to digital television broadcasts looms and as many as 8 million households are still unprepared, but the government program that subsidizes crucial TV converter boxes is about to run out of money.
Digital TV converter coupons in short supplyU.S. consumers who wait too long to request government coupons to subsidize converter boxes for the digital television transition in February may come up empty-handed, a regulator has warned.
Digital TV converter coupons in short supplyU.S. consumers who wait too long to request government coupons to subsidize converter boxes for the digital television transition in February may come up empty-handed, a regulator has warned.
In Lean Times, Online Coupons Are Catching On On the Internet, nothing travels faster than a tip on how to score a bargain. Especially in an economic downturn.
New Website Helps New Yorkers Battle the Recession, One Meal at a TimeNew York, NY (PRWEB) October 31, 2008 -- In New York alone, the average price for a dozen eggs has risen over 25% since 2007 with food prices in general increasing by more than 5%.
When a sale isn't really a saleThis is a must read article about saving money by avoiding sales
Tips by 'America's Cheapest Family'Tips by 'America's Cheapest Family' See how this family of six keeps their grocery bill at $350 a month, which includes 4 teens. See more irresistible headlines
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