My syndicated Super-Couponing Tips column for the week is entitled “Tired of online-only ad circulars and QR codes? You’re not alone. “
Here’s an excerpt:
“I’m very angry about the trend to do away with printed ad circulars for grocery stores. I think stores are using the pandemic as an excuse for stopping printing their ads. I complained at to my grocer about this, and the customer service counter staffer said ‘it is more green to not print the ad.’
It takes me much longer to look at an ad on my tiny phone screen than it does to have the ad spread out in my shopping cart. When I have a paper ad in front of me, I always find more items that I want to buy too because it is easier to look through it. What can be done? Grocery shopping was easier and more enjoyable with a real ad.”
Read this entire column at the the Northwest Indiana Times.
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Deborah says
We are cruisers and are disappointed to learn that when we return to sailing, dining room menus will be accessed using a QR code at the table, rather than being handed a menu. Also, the daily printed program, showing what’s happening around the ship the next day, will no longer be delivered to each room in the evening. Instead, it will have to be accessed on the ship’s app, requiring us to carry around our phones at all times. While it may be safer during the pandemic to be touching fewer items, I believe that, like with supermarkets, it is primarily a means to save the company money.
Coupon Maven says
I 100& agree — I do not like this trend, and I hadn’t yet thought about how it would affect cruising too.