KMart Stops Taking Internet Coupons

[juliet57]

I just came from K-Mart. They have signs posted saying that they no longer accept internet or printed coupons or ones that appear to have been copied. I don't think this is a local store policy, it appeared to be an official K-Mart policy directive. I can understand why they are doing it but it stinks that you can't use a legitimate coupon there.


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[t_kuczy]

I just went to Giant Eagle on Tuesday and was told the same thing there. This stinks!!!!

[Jennifer M.]

As long as the coupon scans I don't really see what the harm is? They will probably end up losing business because the won't accept them anymore.

[pandybat]

It's because of coupon abuse that these things happen. Next time you see someone bragging about altering or printing 25 coupons and using them at a store (essentially ripping the store off), you should give them a good tongue lashing and remind them how much they are screwing over everyone by doing it. I can see how stores are tired of coupons being abused. They try to do us a favor and some greedy dweebs take unfair advantage of it and ruin it for all of us.


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[bwsmom]

Originally posted by pandybat
It's because of coupon abuse that these things happen. Next time you see someone bragging about altering or printing 25 coupons and using them at a store (essentially ripping the store off), you should give them a good tongue lashing and remind them how much they are screwing over everyone by doing it. I can see how stores are tired of coupons being abused. They try to do us a favor and some greedy dweebs take unfair advantage of it and ruin it for all of us.

You're absolutely right pandy! I used to read posts on other boards (never here on DOD!) about people going into Target, K-Mart and the like and using duplicate coupons to buy out entire stocks of items for mere pennies.... some would even then turn around and use the UPC's from those items to send away for rebates and such, making oodles of money and scamming the stores and the manufacturers on the items they "purchased"!!

When we lived in So Cal, I remember many of the grocery stores putting limits on how many coupons you could use for a specific item (i.e., if you were using General Mills cereal coupons, you could only use three coupons and you had to get three cereals, no more no less). I think the reason the stores did that way back when was to fight back against people who took advantage of some stores' "unlimited coupons" policy.

As with everything else in life, a few abusers have to spoil it for the rest of us!


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[Lori664]

I printed out some coupons at coolsavings and a message printed out under the coupons I printed...here is what it says.

" A message to our members
Grocery coupon redemption notice
Coolsavings grocery coupons are accepted at nearly all grocery retailers in the United sates. Some select retailers do not accept coupons printed from a computer. If you find a retailer that does not accept a coupon printed from coolsavings, please send an email to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Either login above or Register Now] and tell us the retailer, location, and detail your experience. We apologize for any inconvenience, and value your membership.

As a public service reminder, coupon fraud is illegal. To avoied the possibility of engaging in illegal activity, you should never buy, sell, alter or transfer coupons."


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[MirandaS30]

I think if someone doesn't want to have their coupons copied or duplicated they should have a system or some type of indicator that the coupon is not a dupicate.

It really wouldn't be that hard to have the warning that checks or birth certificates etc.. have on them, on the coupon or certificate.

Or even a quicker expire date, so it doesn't get to the public everywhere or on ebay where people sell them.

Or maybe a marker that only changes color on the paper or vs. versa. to tell if the paper came from their printers. And they should just send out coupons, maybe, in the mail.

I don't know, if they are doing this, it makes me think they aren't trying to hard to let the genuine people use them.

These are all just different ways I think they should do to go the extra mile to make their customers happy.

Miranda


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[t_kuczy]

Krogers refused to take an internet coupon I had today also. It's sad that some idiots have to spoil things for everyone...

[juliet57]

Giant Food has stopped accepting internet coupons for free items. I guess that is an acceptable compromise since those are probably the most likely to be abused.


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[crazytimes]

Doesn't Coolsavings put that little pig on the coupons that supposedly disappears when you photo copy it?

Maybe online coupons will have to be to the point where they print your name on them and in bold say ONLY ONE COUPON PER CUSTOMER.

I can't believe that some people get so crazy about coupons! I love coupons, but would never stoop to that level.

When they have Buy One Get One Free sales I do like to try and use 2 coupons if I have them, but I usually don't even have 2 coupons!


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[Louann]

The most recent one I printed was a Blockbuster, and it has my email address on it and says one per address. I think that's a good way to do it.

[juliet57]

I guess there are so many ways to abuse internet coupons that stores can't be expected to always know which are legitimate and which are not. I usually have black ink only in my printer since I print a lot of stuff so my coupons probably look like photocopies. I can't really blame the stores for trying to protect themselves.


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