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Campaigning With Coupons
How’d you like a half-priced steak? And you don’t even have to vote for the owner of the restaurant offering you the coupon. But he’d sure like it if you did. An otherwise uneventful primary race for...
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Rotten Food, No Food, Closed Commissaries and More!
Sequestration has arrived – so be prepared to find rotten meat in your grocery store, if you can find any meat at all. Low-income shoppers will starve, supermarket employees will be fired and military...
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What’s Next, A Ban on Coupons? Well, Yes.
With food labeling laws, proposed bans on large sugary drinks and now, new plans to restrict the sale of tobacco products, you might wonder – what’s next? Banning coupons for products that aren’t good...
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Trump Supporters Use More Coupons Than Clinton Voters
In this divisive election season, going grocery shopping is something of a happy respite from all the rhetoric. There are no political ads, nobody asking for your vote or disparaging the other side,...
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Get Election Day Freebies, And Go to Jail!
Krispy Kreme will give you a free donut. Firehouse Subs will give you a free drink. And various local businesses will give you all kinds of freebies, just for showing up tomorrow with a sticker that...
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Here’s What Happens When a “Hot Coupon Mama” Gets Political
If couponers controlled public spending the way they control their household spending, just think of the money we could all save! That was the thinking, in part, that prompted...
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Coupon Dispute Could Cost City Leader His Job
How can a city named Sunrise, just minutes from the beach on Florida’s Atlantic coast, be anything but cheery? Well, it seems that when there are coupons for free Bundt cakes involved, things in...
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City Official in Coupon Dispute Keeps His Job
Everything is sunny in the city of Sunrise again! Colleagues of an embattled city official in the Florida community came to his defense Thursday, the day after Independence Day – a week after a...
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Grocery Giveaways Help Furloughed Federal Workers
Unless they’re, say, Ben & Jerry’s, most food companies tread cautiously when it comes to wading into thorny political issues. But as the partial U.S. government shutdown drags on, some familiar...
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Vote, Get a Coupon, Go Directly To Jail
There’s a pandemic going on, about 100 million Americans voted early this year, and many of us missed out on receiving those “I Voted” stickers to show off, or prove, that we voted. As a result, there...
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