KROGER & FRIENDS also have internet sites, and they also participate in UPONS (internet coupons) www.upons.com ALL of their stores are listed here, and SHOULD ACCEPT THE FORM OF ADVERTISING THAT THEY, THEMSELVES pay to promote!

MOST of the larger companies utilize the growing internet coupon resources to cut their own expenses! AFTER ALL they are providing the savings, but NOT PAYING for printing, paper and distribution! THIS IS A GREAT SAVINGS TO THEM when we print out our own coupons and seek them on the net, so this is the WAVE OF THE FUTURE, WHY SHOULDNT IT BE, same results , same savings to the consumer, LESS COST to the manufacturer! NOW..................

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SOME STORES do not accept ANY coupons other than their own. the list of stores that do not accept them in my area that I wish they did are

BIG LOTS
SAMS CLUB
SALVAGE BARN

*********they opt out because it would take employee hours to sort and send them in, plus coupon fraud etc they state that they do not make enough profit to warrent this....... I do not shop at these stores often because of this for groceries and health & beauty products, I can get a better deal else-where on most items! These stores are not WRONG for what they do, just are not condusive to my needs.

There is such thing as COUPON FRAUD and some stores are saying they are not accepting internet coupons due to this.

There are articles on the net about this situation and one site that sends letters to the stores asking them NOT to accept the coupons from the net. The following is an article about WHY stores choose not to accept internet coupons http://www.ag.state.ar.us/consumer/ca199.htm

The following article talks about the MONEY LOST per year due to ALL COUPON FRAUD http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/feb03/121476.asp

The following url is an info site about Coupons & Coupon Fraud, they prosecute people who misuse and abuse coupons....... they ALSO send out faxes to store headquarters about Internet Coupon issues. http://www.cents-off.com/faq.htm

NOW YOU CAN SEE WHY THIS IS A CONCERN FOR COMPANIES and WHY some are choosing NOT to be involved! Coupon FRAUD is not limited to INTERNET but is ACROSS THE BOARD! ALL of the coupon activity is open to the ABUSE that occurs, THIS IS WHY FREELANCEBYU.COM ACTIVILY FIGHTS and TALKS AGAINST abuse and misuse of offers by companies, WE WANT THE SAVINGS TO CONTINUE AND BE HELPFUL not hurtful to the companies!

NOW THAT WE KNOW WHY, lets work on how we can CHANGE THAT!

HERE is a recent article about coupon usage and the GROWING USE OF INTERNET COUPONS! "COUPON CLICKERS" THIS IS ENCOURAGING! http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1003631

There are MANY STORES (MOST OF THEM) that have their own WEBSITES (why? because they know that the internet is powerful and helpful to the consumers, CONSUMERS are what keeps them in business!)

MY LOCAL GROCERY AND PROBABLY YOURS TOO...... At FOOD LION (my local) there is ADS on their RADIO in the store that tells the consumers to go to SMARTSOURCE.COM for coupons, in addition they send out THEIR OWN internet coupons! NOW if your store participates in these practices (advertising on the net, online newsletter, ads about online coupons coming from speakers in their stores etc etc) HOW CAN THEY NOT ACCEPT WHAT THEY ARE PART OF?

KROGER & FRIENDS also have internet sites, and they also participate in UPONS (internet coupons) www.upons.com ALL of their stores are listed here, and SHOULD ACCEPT THE FORM OF ADVERTISING THAT THEY, THEMSELVES pay to promote!

MOST of the larger companies utilize the growing internet coupon resources to cut their own expenses! AFTER ALL they are providing the savings, but NOT PAYING for printing, paper and distribution! THIS IS A GREAT SAVINGS TO THEM when we print out our own coupons and seek them on the net, so this is the WAVE OF THE FUTURE, WHY SHOULDNT IT BE, same results , same savings to the consumer, LESS COST to the manufacturer! NOW..................

HERE IS A STORE N

There is such thing as COUPON FRAUD and some stores are saying they are not accepting internet coupons due to this.

There are articles on the net about this situation and one site that sends letters to the stores asking them NOT to accept the coupons from the net. The following is an article about WHY stores choose not to accept internet coupons http://www.ag.state.ar.us/consumer/ca199.htm

The following article talks about the MONEY LOST per year due to ALL COUPON FRAUD http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/feb03/121476.asp

The following url is an info site about Coupons & Coupon Fraud, they prosecute people who misuse and abuse coupons....... they ALSO send out faxes to store headquarters about Internet Coupon issues. http://www.cents-off.com/faq.htm

NOW YOU CAN SEE WHY THIS IS A CONCERN FOR COMPANIES and WHY some are choosing NOT to be involved! Coupon FRAUD is not limited to INTERNET but is ACROSS THE BOARD! ALL of the coupon activity is open to the ABUSE that occurs, THIS IS WHY FREELANCEBYU.COM ACTIVILY FIGHTS and TALKS AGAINST abuse and misuse of offers by companies, WE WANT THE SAVINGS TO CONTINUE AND BE HELPFUL not hurtful to the companies!

NOW THAT WE KNOW WHY, lets work on how we can CHANGE THAT!

HERE is a recent article about coupon usage and the GROWING USE OF INTERNET COUPONS! "COUPON CLICKERS" THIS IS ENCOURAGING! http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1003631

There are MANY STORES (MOST OF THEM) that have their own WEBSITES (why? because they know that the internet is powerful and helpful to the consumers, CONSUMERS are what keeps them in business!)

MY LOCAL GROCERY AND PROBABLY YOURS TOO...... At FOOD LION (my local) there is ADS on their RADIO in the store that tells the consumers to go to SMARTSOURCE.COM for coupons, in addition they send out THEIR OWN internet coupons! NOW if your store participates in these practices (advertising on the net, online newsletter, ads about online coupons coming from speakers in their stores etc etc) HOW CAN THEY NOT ACCEPT WHAT THEY ARE PART OF?

KROGER & FRIENDS also have internet sites, and they also participate in UPONS (internet coupons) www.upons.com ALL of their stores are listed here, and SHOULD ACCEPT THE FORM OF ADVERTISING THAT THEY, THEMSELVES pay to promote!

MOST of the larger companies utilize the growing internet coupon resources to cut their own expenses! AFTER ALL they are providing the savings, but NOT PAYING for printing, paper and distribution! THIS IS A GREAT SAVINGS TO THEM when we print out our own coupons and seek them on the net, so this is the WAVE OF THE FUTURE, WHY SHOULDNT IT BE, same results , same savings to the consumer, LESS COST to the manufacturer! NOW..................

HERE IS A STORE N

NOW YOU CAN SEE WHY THIS IS A CONCERN FOR COMPANIES and WHY some are choosing NOT to be involved! Coupon FRAUD is not limited to INTERNET but is ACROSS THE BOARD! ALL of the coupon activity is open to the ABUSE that occurs, THIS IS WHY FREELANCEBYU.COM ACTIVILY FIGHTS and TALKS AGAINST abuse and misuse of offers by companies, WE WANT THE SAVINGS TO CONTINUE AND BE HELPFUL not hurtful to the companies!

NOW THAT WE KNOW WHY, lets work on how we can CHANGE THAT!

HERE is a recent article about coupon usage and the GROWING USE OF INTERNET COUPONS! "COUPON CLICKERS" THIS IS ENCOURAGING! http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1003631

There are MANY STORES (MOST OF THEM) that have their own WEBSITES (why? because they know that the internet is powerful and helpful to the consumers, CONSUMERS are what keeps them in business!)

MY LOCAL GROCERY AND PROBABLY YOURS TOO...... At FOOD LION (my local) there is ADS on their RADIO in the store that tells the consumers to go to SMARTSOURCE.COM for coupons, in addition they send out THEIR OWN internet coupons! NOW if your store participates in these practices (advertising on the net, online newsletter, ads about online coupons coming from speakers in their stores etc etc) HOW CAN THEY NOT ACCEPT WHAT THEY ARE PART OF?

KROGER & FRIENDS also have internet sites, and they also participate in UPONS (internet coupons) www.upons.com ALL of their stores are listed here, and SHOULD ACCEPT THE FORM OF ADVERTISING THAT THEY, THEMSELVES pay to promote!

MOST of the larger companies utilize the growing internet coupon resources to cut their own expenses! AFTER ALL they are providing the savings, but NOT PAYING for printing, paper and distribution! THIS IS A GREAT SAVINGS TO THEM when we print out our own coupons and seek them on the net, so this is the WAVE OF THE FUTURE, WHY SHOULDNT IT BE, same results , same savings to the consumer, LESS COST to the manufacturer! NOW..................

HERE IS A STORE N

There are MANY STORES (MOST OF THEM) that have their own WEBSITES (why? because they know that the internet is powerful and helpful to the consumers, CONSUMERS are what keeps them in business!)

MY LOCAL GROCERY AND PROBABLY YOURS TOO...... At FOOD LION (my local) there is ADS on their RADIO in the store that tells the consumers to go to SMARTSOURCE.COM for coupons, in addition they send out THEIR OWN internet coupons! NOW if your store participates in these practices (advertising on the net, online newsletter, ads about online coupons coming from speakers in their stores etc etc) HOW CAN THEY NOT ACCEPT WHAT THEY ARE PART OF?

KROGER & FRIENDS also have internet sites, and they also participate in UPONS (internet coupons) www.upons.com ALL of their stores are listed here, and SHOULD ACCEPT THE FORM OF ADVERTISING THAT THEY, THEMSELVES pay to promote!

MOST of the larger companies utilize the growing internet coupon resources to cut their own expenses! AFTER ALL they are providing the savings, but NOT PAYING for printing, paper and distribution! THIS IS A GREAT SAVINGS TO THEM when we print out our own coupons and seek them on the net, so this is the WAVE OF THE FUTURE, WHY SHOULDNT IT BE, same results , same savings to the consumer, LESS COST to the manufacturer! NOW..................

HERE IS A STORE N

KROGER & FRIENDS also have internet sites, and they also participate in UPONS (internet coupons) www.upons.com ALL of their stores are listed here, and SHOULD ACCEPT THE FORM OF ADVERTISING THAT THEY, THEMSELVES pay to promote!

MOST of the larger companies utilize the growing internet coupon resources to cut their own expenses! AFTER ALL they are providing the savings, but NOT PAYING for printing, paper and distribution! THIS IS A GREAT SAVINGS TO THEM when we print out our own coupons and seek them on the net, so this is the WAVE OF THE FUTURE, WHY SHOULDNT IT BE, same results , same savings to the consumer, LESS COST to the manufacturer! NOW..................

HERE IS A STORE NOT IN MY AREA THAT IS ROCKING WITH COUPONS ON THE CUTTING EDGE! YEA BABY!

http://www.morningnewsbeat.com/archives/2002/10/25.html

PublixDirect To Begin Accepting Coupons PublixDirect, the online arm of Publix Super Markets, announced that it will begin accepting manufacturer coupons from consumers shopping over the Internet.

The service, which launched in 2001 and says it has now made 200,000 deliveries, said it was responding to consumer demand in making the change. It had hoped to wait to accept coupons until online coupons became a currency of choice, but consumers forced the retailer’s hand.

PublixDirect personnel collect the coupons while making deliveries, with the value credited to their account for their next online purchase.

KC's View: Granted, taking paper coupons at this point in the development of e-grocery services can be cumbersome. Let’s call it what it is: a pain in the…neck.

But it seems to us that to not accept coupons is to make a strategic error, because it creates a differential disadvantage for such services. The whole point of online grocery shopping, it seems to us, is not to separate it from the brick-and-mortar experience, but rather to make it just another avenue through which to do regular shopping. It works when it is considered mainstream and integrated, not when it is separated by different policies.

DO A SEARCH for your local store (use one of the contest search engines when you do, who knows maybe you will win something while doing your research, check out the WINNING section of our FORUM and you will see that I have won LOTZ from using this method! YESTERDAY I won $35 in Gift Certificates doing this!)

put in your store name that does not accept internet coupons if you chose WALMART you will see that they do not run weekly ads on the internet for groceries that I can find and have a policy NOT to take internet coupons, I am not sure there is anything we can do about WALMART (it is non-union and appears to have pull in many ways, including the ability to be successful JUST BECAUSE and not because it offers excellent customer service or the best prices) the best thing that walmart does is MEET COMPETITORS PRICING so that you can get all of the sale prices in one place, but the aggrevation of dealing with walmart is not worth it to me. IF THIS IS THE ONLY LOCAL STORE YOU HAVE GO FOR IT....... otherwise my suggestion is CHOOSE ANOTHER STORE!

NOW that you have found your store ONLINE and their weekly ads etc, find out their WRITTEN POLICY ABOUT COUPONS, does it specifically say NO INTERNET COUPONS? DO THEY SEND OUT INTERNET COUPONS THEMSELVES? DO they allow advertisers to talk about their internet coupons ? BETTY CROCKER, PILLSBURY, SMARTSOURCE, UPONS etc.......... if they do this needs to be brought to their attention! NOW!

I have included all of my stores that accept internet coupo