Electronic couponing debuts in stores this spring
Readers learn about electronic couponing through in store video terminals. Machines dispense up to 32 coupons per visit activated by magnetic strip cards printing codes in seconds. High redemption rates and potential to boost impulse buys accompany concerns over cost versus traditional methods. Audra Baker of Jersey City asks if this helps consumers or tracks retailers.
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Super Saver
Jan Leasure
Universal Press Syndicate
Audra Baker
Jersey City
Audra
Electronic Advertising Network
Grand Prairie
Texas
Dallas
New Jersey
Metro
New York
Heart Fund
Coupon flood offers and refunds from many brands
A garbled nationwide refund column lists offers for Vicks Formula 44M Tums Tylenol Conair Almay Hefty and more with varying expiration dates and required proofs such as UPCs outer cartons postage stamps or circled receipts. Readers are warned forms may not appear in all cities and to file by deadlines.
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Hauppauge
N.Y
Jan Leasure
Brussels
Purina
Little Falls
Baltimore
An ethnic dish you may have missed
A feature describing nkatse nkwan kyekye na sesew a rich African peanut butter stew with shrimp. The recipe lists ingredients including peanut butter water shrimp lemon onion salt pepper tomato paste green pepper mushrooms and a bay leaf plus cooking steps to boil simmer and thicken the stew.
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