I want to give you the good news first! If you went to Coupons.com yesterday and didn't scroll through all the pages, you might want to head back. I know I get lazy after about page 10 of coupons and just print and go. Well, on the higher pages right now, there are several high value toy coupons! These are for various Hasbro toys including Mr Potatohead, Sit and Spin etc. Sadly, I recognize some of these toys from my own kids toy room, lol. I suggest heading to Coupons.com soon so you can print before the print limit is reached. (Thanks Heather for the heads up)
Now, the potential BAD news. I just got a newsletter from coupons inc, the owners of coupons.com. Well, they are trying to get in on the loadable coupons game and are in works to finalize this with Safeway affiliate stores. At first glance this sounds GREAT, but if you read the article, this might be bad news for us couponers in the future. A quote taken directly from the news flash:
One problem that needed to be solved in offering loyalty-card delivery of coupons was that of “stacking”, Boal said. That can occur when a manufacturer releases a coupon in two venues, to loyalty card members and then in a free-standing print insert, but wants to prevent users from overlaying one coupon over the other and thus getting a double discount.
“We’ve solved for that problem over our entire enterprise, so that when consumers choose one method of delivery for a particular offer, the other becomes unavailable to them.” The solution only works within the Coupons.com network of print, mobile and digital channels, Boal points out. Manufacturers who make deals with multiple coupon vendors will still face stacking issues.
While right now, it looks like just Coupons.com is not going to have the "stacking" option, this might pave the way for these chain stores to go with just ONE loadable coupons site and that would be BAD for us couponers. Lets hope they don't tamper with our shortcuts and Cellfire!
For those interested in the whole article, click here.
4 comments:
I got the same email this a.m :( well it was great while it lasted! Let's hope it takes a while for cellfire and shortcuts to get in on the anti-stacking.
Got the same "bad news" email. What a bummer!
Oh, this is sad! So just so I have it straight, has this "fix" happened already? Should I rush to Randalls and use all stacked loadables? My sister was denied a paper coupon yesterday because she had a loadable as well, I was hoping this was not the end!
Jill, it looks like right now only coupons.com will have this "fix" but it might make these chain stores DROP all but one loadable site to avoid this stacking. Coupons.com loadable program has not gone live yet either so we just have to wait and see.
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