Thought Leadership: Coupons

Emerging Brands Shopper Statistics & Behaviors You Need to Know [Infographic]

Emerging brands, listen up! Shoppers are eager to discover smaller, lesser-known brands for a new and exciting buying experience. We surveyed 1,000 emerging brands shoppers and learned that, among first-time buyers of an emerging brand, 89% were likely to purchase again. However, if you can’t get those buyers to purchase for the first time, does it matter?

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Did You Know 69% Of Shoppers Are Currently Looking For Ways To Save Money On Grocery Items?

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Is That Coupon Fraud?

Shoppers are always looking for a good deal, and rely on coupons to stretch their dollars as far as possible. Oftentimes, this may inadvertently lead to coupon misuse. While this misuse doesn’t seem as malicious as creating and using counterfeit coupons, it does contribute to the $100 million loss our industry faces due to coupon fraud. With that in mind, Inmar announced a recent survey that asked coupon-using shoppers how they use the popular discounts. 

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Ending Fraud. Protecting an Industry.

Paper coupons are critical to the health of grocery retail but coupon counterfeiting is costing brands and retailers $100 million a year. Everyone is doing what they can to stop it but we think more needs to be done. Therefore, we have publicly committed to ending paper coupon fraud in the grocery industry by 2024.

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Inmar Commits to Ending Coupon Fraud by 2024

Our new fraud technology is FREE for all retailers and CPGs. We’re taking a bold stand to eliminate coupon fraud by 2024. To make this a reality, we've launched the industry’s only holistic promotion fraud mitigation technology — and we’re offering it to retailers and manufacturers for free!  Our new, proprietary solution uses POS-integrated technology, AI-based data science, and advanced data analytics to eliminate counterfeit coupons — through the prevention, detection and remediation of fraudulent activities.

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Inmar Launches New Self-Service Product Barcode Generation Tool

Inmar Intelligence has been helping companies of every size operate more efficiently for more than 40 years – and that legacy of service has included 15+ years as a trusted source for coupon barcodes. Now, we’ve expanded on that capability and have launched a self-service website where users can create all the key product barcodes they need.  We know that having immediate access to accurate, scannable barcodes is an absolute necessity for your business. And to make that access even easier, we’ve launched InmarBarcodes.com.

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Coupons and e-Commerce: Delivering on Grocery Shoppers' Expectations of Value

While it would be foolish to downplay the significance of this element of the e-commerce shopping experience, it would be even more foolish to ignore grocery shoppers’ expressed psychological need for “value.”

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Three Key Promotion Trends to Watch in 2019

Growing consumer demand for convenience, value and personal relevance around their shopping and saving activity in 2018 fueled the continuation of a paradigm shift towards greater deployment of digital promotions by marketers -- and increasing adoption by consumers.

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