Showing posts with label electronic grocery coupons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electronic grocery coupons. Show all posts

Monday, October 24, 2011

Printable Coupons Offer Savings for Non-Cell Phone Users

Printable coupons are becoming more popular with shoppers who want to save money any way they can. Whether you're saving money at the grocery store, their favorite coffee shop or restaurant, or even on vacation or Christmas shopping, the smart consumer can count on coupons as a way to save money while buying much-needed (or much preferred) items.

Consumers turn to coupons and discounts for groceries and regular household items. Mobile coupon apps reach many shoppers with a smartphone but leave out those with a regular flip phone, or even without a cellphone. However, for those people looking to cash in on the savings, but are not interested in digging through the paper to clip coupons, printable coupons bring a solution.

Many coupon sites exist with an option to print coupons, while some also offer access through mobile apps as well. But you don't need the mobile app to use the website. Anyone with a computer and printer can take advantage of savings on cleaners, laundry detergent, and even air filters. Even if you don’t have a computer at home, you can visit your local public library for computer and Internet access. It may cost you a few cents a page to print out, but the savings you can get are worth the cost of the paper.

You can find printable coupons for just about anything you can dream up, in addition to the usual household items and groceries. Families looking for affordable ways to have fun can print out coupons for amusement parks, museums, movie rentals, pizza delivery, and party stores. Printable coupons are helping families find fun in these tougher economic times.

Most sites offering printable coupons make it easy for saving-seeking shoppers to locate the deals they need. Consumers browse the different coupon categories or use the site’s search feature. Once they have found all the coupons that they want, they can “check out” and print all the coupons at once. This way a shopper can print multiple coupons on one printed page, not wasting paper or extra ink cartridges.

With all the money you can save on groceries and household items with printable coupons, you could find extra dollars for a night on the town, with a new outfit to boot! Of course, with coupons being offered on any and everything, you can sometimes find printable coupons for major department stores. Even some smaller trendy stores feature online coupons for you to print out at home and use in their store.

In tight financial times, families demonstrate their best creativity in making a dollar stretch. Printable coupons can help anyone find a few extra dollars even if they do not have a cell phone. Mobile coupon apps are a great way to save, but printable coupons can reach more people looking to save.

Monday, September 12, 2011

How Mobile Coupons Apps Can Help Coupon Ninjas

The use of coupons continues to grow, as the price for food and groceries increase, and the economy continues to slow. We're looking for any way to save on our monthly budget, and some people have turned to hard-core couponing and have become Coupon Ninjas.

Coupon ninjas will rarely buy anything without a coupon in their hand. Take the case of an Atlanta shopper whose coupons were refused at a major grocery store chain. With a family of 10, she, like most Coupon Ninjas, never buys anything unless she has a matching coupon. The supermarket would not accept her coupons, not because of the number of coupons she had, but because of how she was doing it. The supermarket exercised its right to refuse any coupon and/or limit the amount that shoppers redeem.

Our Atlanta shopper turned coupon ninja could have avoided this if she had used the WOWPONS mobile coupon apps. WOWPONS are connected to most major grocery store chains and their rewards cards, and are another tool in the Coupon Ninja's arsenal. Instead of giving the cashier a stack of coupons from the different coupon sources, shoppers just hand the cashier the store rewards card. Supermarkets are not likely to refuse any discounts issued from their own rewards card

WOWPONS helps shoppers stay organized and save time on couponing. Shoppers can take a picture of an item’s barcode with their smartphone’s camera, and the WOWPONS app will locate any coupons offered by the store and the manufacturer. If the app cannot find a matching coupon, it will find a similar product's coupon instead. For the budget-smart consumer, this means never having to buy anything without a coupon.

The coupon is then uploaded to the coupon ninja's rewards card. When they scan their card at the cash register, all available coupons are redeemed and applied to the total grocery bill. WOWPONS can even trigger double and triple coupons for stores that offer them.

WOWPONS help Coupon Ninjas save money while they're on the go, without an overly-complex couponing campaign. They can find savings from the closest stores to them by using the apps’ geolocation technology. Shoppers will benefit from having all the different stores' coupons in one location — on their smartphone.

Extreme couponing strategies have become so popular, there are blogs, websites, and even entire TV shows dedicated to the art. It is no wonder that Coupon Ninjas are popping up all over the country, ready for the next big savings adventure. WOWPONS can help these savvy shoppers avoid running afoul of the store's policy, and help them create a simple and organized couponing strategy.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Mobile Grocery Coupons: Simple, Convenient, Smart

Mobile grocery coupons are making it easier than ever for people to save time and money with just a few clicks. By taking advantage of mobile grocery coupons, shoppers can get the convenience of shopping online with all the savings of printed paper coupons. Plus, it is no longer possible to leave coupons at home again. As long as the shopper has their mobile phone with them, they have their mobile grocery coupons, because the mobile grocery coupons are stored online.

Mobile grocery coupons bring savings for groceries to a smart phone like those usually enjoyed at restaurants, entertainment venues, clothing stores, auto service providers and more. They can be loaded on to the mobile phone

Here are just some of the ways to save time and money with mobile grocery coupons:

  • It is not necessary to spend countless hours each week going through sales flyers searching for coupons, then clipping them, and putting them into an organizer. Finding and selecting coupons on a mobile phone is fast and easy, as simple as searching and browsing for items online.
  • Anyone who has ever come across an item in the grocery store and realized they had forgotten to bring their coupons can now search for and download the coupon while they are in the store. This way, they will never miss a deal.
  • It is not necessary to buy a newspaper just for the grocery coupons. Mobile grocery coupons are free, so why spend money just to save money?
  • It is not necessary to wait for coupons to arrive in the mail. Anyone who needs to go grocery shopping today, but knows the store's weekly flyer is not supposed to show up until tomorrow can use mobile grocery coupons the very instant they need them.
  • It is not necessary to clean out old expired coupons from a filing system either, or be frustrated to hand coupons to the cashier only to discover that they already expired. Mobile grocery coupons disappear after their expiration date, so they do not have to be deleted by hand. Of course, this also means it may be necessary to develop a tracking method to know when the coupons are about to expire, but the savvy shopper is always able to find a way to keep track of these thing.
  • Shoppers can also find coupons that meet their lifestyle needs, as well as those of their family. People who are trying to lose weight can search for coupons of diet-friendly foods. Have a preference for only certain brands? No problem. It is easy to search for coupons for them, too.
  • Some mobile coupon apps even use the GPS function of a smart phone to search for mobile grocery coupons for the items on a shopper's list (and even a few items that are not on the list, but should be). This can all happen automatically, just by entering the items that are needed on the mobile list, and the app will do all the searching, and even track the amount saved.
  • And of course, mobile coupons save fuel, because it eliminates the need to drive around to several different stores to find the best deals on a shopper's favorite products. It is important to find a mobile coupon service that is affiliated with several grocery store chains and their loyalty card programs, and not just an app from a single store. While using a single store app is a good start, a third-party app is better, because it uses the GPS on a mobile phone to find the deals at the closest store — very valuable when the shopper is on the road.

Mobile grocery coupons are perfect for budget-conscious people who want a tool to help them save money when they shop. By going paperless and mobile, shoppers can experience the convenience, ease, and extra savings that mobile grocery coupons provide.