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(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday September 05, @06:37AM
Here in France the coupons are usually time limited whereas a loyalty card is not. Having coupons encourages some people to go to the store in order to benefit from the coupons when otherwise they would not visit.
I rarely find anything on a coupon offer that I would usually buy so it also 'encourages' some others to buy stuff that they don't actually need.
In neither case am I actually getting a good deal so most of my coupons are given to a local charity which seems very grateful for them. I'm not sure how they redeem them to benefit from whatever is on offer - perhaps there are homeless people who are desperate for a bag of barbecue charcoal, half price seedlings, or an inflatable head support for air travellers....
Or maybe the French just do coupons differently locally. I do get regular additional discounts on my loyalty cards.