The downside of coupons: Fraud and clueless cashiers

re: The downside of coupons: Fraud and clueless cashiers

keith — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:36:42 GMT

Coupons.com is SPYWARE!! Stay away!

re: The downside of coupons: Fraud and clueless cashiers

madcouponhatter — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:45:50 GMT

Forget Target. Their not accepting coupons is their economic loss. They outsourced their customer service to India, so let them crumble. Someday they'll be filing for bankrupsy like Kmart did. Walmart who allows overage will chug-a-lug on...

re: The downside of coupons: Fraud and clueless cashiers

Bonnie — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:07:05 GMT

Target sucks!!!! they need to learn ALOT about counponing!!!!!!!! Corprate also!! I had it in writing from corprate and the store still will not let me use coupons on certain items!! WTF!!!

re: The downside of coupons: Fraud and clueless cashiers

bhaskar467 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:47:00 GMT

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re: The downside of coupons: Fraud and clueless cashiers

nityam — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:13:11 GMT

i generally don't like printed coupons myself instead use free coupons from online sites like swoopup.com to avail great discounts at a click of a button, i prefer it as i don't have to carry along and since i usually go shopping online it sure is and better method of shopping for me.

re: The downside of coupons: Fraud and clueless cashiers

Andrew H — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:01:35 GMT

Perhaps I am too trusting, but I think most people that come through my line legitimately think that they are using their coupons correctly. Most people who use them do, I believe. So I take that perspective, even if I run into fraudulent coupons. Most claim to not even know they were fraudulent, and I believe them. But I don't accept the coupons by any means. Most of the time, they will admit their mistake and hand over the coupon.

We should accept people enough to think the best of them. Cashiers who do not do this should not be cashiers. And they do not deserve to write on their resumes that they gave excellent customer service. We are the "experts", not the customers. Let's be professionals.

re: The downside of coupons: Fraud and clueless cashiers

IrritatedCashier — Mon, 18 May 2009 03:47:52 GMT

As a current cashier and coupon clipper, I feel conflicted with these comments. My store doesn't allow double-coupons on buy one get ones, but is pretty lax on most everything else. We accept printouts, clip-outs, and Catolina Store Coupons that print out. We allow use of store and vendor coupons on one item. Although it takes a little extra time to ring the coupon-clippers up, especially on a Super Saturday sale, I never complain. The four people waiting in line might, but I actively encourage it.

What really irks me is when I do get scammers--people who just clip out a bunch of coupons and hand them over, not differentiating between what they actually bought and what they clipped out. Or the jerk who clips out a brand named product but grabs the store brand so they payless but still use the other coupon. Then the above people become angry and deman to see your manager. And, personally, I wonder why I put up with this crap for minimum wage.

Point? Coupon clip. Save. But don't be a jerk to minimum wage cashiers who are stuggling just as badly as you to make it through this economic crisis, but are earning much less to put up with your tantrums over double-up vendor coupons and misinterpretation of sales/coupons. We need to keep our jobs too.

re: The downside of coupons: Fraud and clueless cashiers

very upset — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:40:02 GMT

I want to thank everyone for all the helpfull infromation! I have been through a Nightmare with all these so called Freecoupon sites!WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF ANY BODY CAN HELP WITH SOME REAL DEAL SITES,PLEASE LET ME KNOW! THANK YOU!!!

re: The downside of coupons: Fraud and clueless cashiers

Xray Girl — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:01:12 GMT

I don't blame the cashiers for checking the coupons for accuracy on date, correct item purchased, etc. Occassionally you get that one cashier that acts like you ruined her entire day because you came to her/his line with coupons, but guess what? IT"S YOUR JOB!! You may not want to scan every single coupon I have, but when you took the job that was a part of the duties. I would say that 99% of cashiers are pleasant and don't really care whether or not you have coupon(s). As long as they are not expired, you bought the item, etc they are fine with it, but there are those very few who act like it is coming out of their own pocket.

re: The downside of coupons: Fraud and clueless cashiers

RJ — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:01:23 GMT

So when will coupons start being used electronically? Lets face it, a downloaded coupon to somebody's iPhone is the way of the future. I currently use a program called Cellfire on my Blackberry. The unfortunate part, is there are not of retailers using this method of transfering coupon savings. But just imagine a day, when checkers no longer have to worry about fraud, and users no longer have to worry if the retailer will take it or if the coupon is out of date. Clean, simply, easy.