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Rainbow Foods Downplays Coupons And Introduces A High-tech Customer Loyalty Program Intense competition and an ever-rising cost of living have created scary times for packaged goods retailers. Ours is an [...]

|A hell of a lot of labor for a low-value piece of paper.' That's how Bob Grottke, a Chicago-based coupon consultant now working for Catalina Marketing, describes the state of [...]

All consumers who want equal treatment without paper coupons raise both feet now Some |logic' never changes. . .even St. Patrick's: |All snakes who wish to remain in Ireland please [...]

In the old days, supermarket promotions were triedand-true events. They were primarily designed to get shoppers back into the store and increase the number of shopping trips. Who doesn't have [...]

An Internet-based eCoupon pilot utilizing 'smart' supermarket loyalty cards conducted by Infineer Inc. and SoftCard Systems Inc. will begin later this year. The pilot will focus on select participants from [...]

VAL-PAK now offers a little bit of home away from home. The co-op mailer is promoting coupons that can be used by tourists or business travelers for services such as [...]

Consumers who use cents-off coupons when grocery shopping may not yet be throwing away their scissors, but in the Northeast and Southwest, they are finding they can have coupons delivered [...]

The launch of Brodbeck Enterprises' interactive web site will include a test of paperless electronic coupons targeted to individual shoppers' preferences. Brodbeck here, which operates Dick's Supermarkets, plans to launch [...]

The Internet is beginning to influence the way consumers get coupons and the method by which, and to whom, chains promote the visiting of physical stores, chain executives and recent [...]

Randalls Food Markets is finding that visitors to its World Wide Web site like the coupons it has started to place on the site. The supermarket has created a customized virtual store service that provides store specials as well as downloadable coupons. The site receives about 4,061 hits daily, and a May test found that the coupons service generated the largest number of hits., HOUSTON -- Randalls Food Markets here is testing a link to its web site that offers a customized virtual store in which customers can find store specials and download coupons. [...]

Supermarkets and manufacturers agree on the need for a standard electronic coupon processing system, but mistrust and cost issues have delayed such innovations. Catalina Marketing of Florida, a leading US coupon clearinghouse, discontinued its electronic coupon processing due to lack of interest from manufacturers. Stores hope manufacturers will pay for installation of electronic scanners, and some say without manufacturer funds the systems are more money than they are worth., Electronic and other highly efficient coupon-clearing programs, which promise quick, accurate processing, have made only limited progress in the supermarket industry. Most agree that current manual and multistep methods of [...]

Supermarkets are using new electronic in-store displays and marketing materials such as electronic coupon machines and interactive kiosks to catch the attention of jaded and tired shoppers. Retailers including Dick's IGA in Wisconsin, Bashas' Markets in Arizona and Rainbow Foods of Minnesota are reporting sales which double through use of electronic marketing. Computer-generated signs are also becoming popular., Traditional in-store media materials, like coupon pads tacked to bulletin boards, hand-written signs and even store directories seen on shopping carts are getting an electronic face-lift. The leading media tools [...]

The proliferation of private label products and changing consumer habits have forced consumer goods manufacturers to consider alternatives to the traditional cents-off coupon in a freestanding insert. 'Consumers redeemed less [...]

Fuji Moves to the Sunday Paper ELMSFORD, N.Y.--Well-trained by the fickle buying patterns of film and cassette tape customers, Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. Inc. is attempting to beef up its […]

CHICAGO -- Reduced space symbology (RSS) bar codes will benefit retailers and manufacturers alike, a report from the Joint Industry Coupon Committee Reengineering Task force says. For retailers, the report [...]

The printable online coupon is getting more and more attention from studios looking to beef up, DVD sales. 'Daredevil' is the latest example--and is also the first time Fox has […]

Envision a supermarker shopper buying a pack of cigarettes. After Ethe checkout clerk scans the cigarettes,a message appears on a video screen precisely at the customer's eye level. The message [...]

Curiosity about Internet coupons finally got to me the other day. With all the talk about the Internet and electronic coupons, I decided to journey to the home page for [...]

BOISE, Idaho - Electronic dispensing of coupons is taking hold in some new ways. Customers in a growing number of stores are now receiving coupons when they use automated teller [...]

APPLE VALLEY, Minn. -- A Cub Foods store here is looking to generate new business with a highly unusual technology-driven service. The store recently opened a video conferencing kiosk in [...]

PayLess Drug Stores hopes to attract penny-pinching customers with a new in-store advertising concept--a machine that prints coupons. The retailer plans to install its 'PayLess Savings Spot' kiosks at 110 [...]

MAX, a new in-store electronic couponing system that dispenses coupons based on customers' shopping lists, will begin a six-month test in April in such leading supermarket chains as Safeway, Kroger, [...]