Coupon offers are beginning to replace high profile, slick, and strategic advertising that you are used to see on television, and tune out most of the time.

In the last week, I saw four different coupon ads on local television. The first ad was an after mother’s day clearance sale at a name local department store that was advertising a $25 coupon just for entering the store (to be used for anything you want). This department store attempted to use a coupon offer just to get people to walk into the store. (more…)