This week’s syndicated Super-Couponing Tips column is entitled “Coupons and loyalty cash at department stores.” Here’s an excerpt:
“We think about coupons in relation to groceries quite often, but do you use coupons when shopping for clothing? Clothing coupons are out there, and I use them as often as I can find them. Major department stores, such as Kohl’s, J.C. Penney and Macy’s, often send out high-value coupons to their shopper base. It seems that nearly every week, I receive an attractive offer from one retailer or another, and they’re usually high-value offers, too. Coupons like $10 off a $25 purchase, 25 percent off an entire purchase or $10 off a purchase of $10 or more (my favorite!) are great motivators to encourage me to make a special trip to the store.”
Read this entire column at NWItimes.com.
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SSMark1 says
“A commonly held belief is that you must be a credit card holder for a particular retailer to receive good coupons, but I’ve found that this isn’t true. I don’t have any store credit cards, but I still receive coupon offers regularly.”
What Jill wrote is true.
I work with about 35 retailers issuing credit card offers by email & snail mail for card members. If you do have a credit card, you will get EVEN MORE offers, especially if you give them an email address and/or phone # with texting capabilities. Also try to use your card at least once a year to show activity. Many times we will close the account within 2 years if there is no activity and the offers will stop that are associated with the open account, and will go back to receiving just regular customer offers.
Also, if you do have a favorite place to shop, I highly recommend getting a credit card for that store to get the maximum number of offers available to you.
Only open a credit card account if you will use it responsibly! So many people get into trouble. And nobody wants that…
As we’ve seen, retailers keep moving the beginning of Christmas sales up… Which is now BEFORE Halloween!… Retailers are hurting this year, and have decided to move EVERYTHING UP! It’s July 1st, and we have Back to School emails blasts going out this week. The long, cold winter didn’t help, but the economy is still hurting. The average US household has take a 10% cut in income over the past 5 years, inflation during this time has gone up a total of about 10% as well. Everyone is getting squeezed. Retailers know this, and we will see even more targeted offers to customers to get them into the stores the 2nd 1/2 of this year.
I think we all have or know someone who has gotten laid off and had to take a lesser paying job or hasn’t gotten a raise in several years at their current job or who’s had to take a cut in pay or benefits, or health care costs have gone through the roof. And again retailers are aware of this and will be fighting each other over your dollars this year to make up for the very slow start. So make sure you get your contact information to them soon to maximize the number of offers for the busy holiday offer season planned this year.
-Mark
NFriday says
Hi- My problem is that I finally broke down and purchased a $59 smart phone at Best Buy almost two months ago, and I don’t use it a lot, and so all I have is a tmobile prepaid plan. Everytime I send or receive a text, it costs me $.10. That is why I did not enter the mastercard contest that was posted over at MUM. When you send them a text, you have a chance to win a $6 mastercard gift certificate, and you can enter once a day, but the whole process requires that you send them a text, and then they send you one back, and you send them another text, and they text you back to tell you if you have won. I would be spending $.40 on texts everytime I would enter the contest.
Yes, I could sign up for texts from my favorite companies, and receive offers that I am not receiving now, but it would cost me for every text they sent, and I don’t have a family, and so I don’t buy a lot of clothes. I have found that I can sometimes get new clothing at rummage sales for way less than what I can get it for at stores even with coupons. I also like the fact that the items that I purchase at rummage sales are stuff that are kept out of landfills.