It’s Back To School Time…the most wonderful time of the year!
And if you’re a back to school parent, well then…you’re probably getting ready to spend a huge amount of money on your children.
But it doesn’t HAVE to be that expensive!!
See, retailers are competing for a slice of the $72.5 billion dollar back-to-school shopping market. Rocketing in as the second-highest business retail money maker according to the National Retail Federation, “back to school” is a cherished opportunity for stores to increase their profits by offering competitive prices for parents online.
Smart businesses are attracting customers via mobile apps, coupons and social media. Remember, smartphone apps allow customers to instantly compare prices of popular back-to-school items in real time. Parents are no longer tied to their desktop to research where the best deal can be found; they can instantly check prices while standing in a store’s aisle. Once bought, parents can easily share their savings on Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms.”
Not everyone knows about the best ways to uncover deals for their children’s back-to-school expenditures.
To get Back To School Shopping off in right direction, check out these useful free popular shopping and coupon mobile apps:
Amazon.com Price Check: Free app by Amazon that lets customers search for Amazon products quickly using barcode, picture, voice, and text search, and access product descriptions and customer reviews.
eBay RedLaser: Barcode and QR code scanner, lets customers find local deals easily—digitize your wallet and more.
ShopSavvy: Barcode and QR code scanner, users can also add barcodes to the system. Includes Slide2Pay technology.
Zoomingo Local Shopping: Local deals from over 50,000+ retail stores. Rewards earnings too. Geofenced 3,000+ malls and alerts customers to best offers when visiting the mall.
Shoptopia: Find the best local deals, save them to the site for future usage and more. Personal shopping companion, allows customers to find what’s hot and trending as well.
And don’t forget about the mobile app “Keyring,” it lets customers scan and store their existing loyalty cards so they don’t have to carry any plastic/paper when shopping.
Other coupon/deal-related sites online which have complementary mobile apps include:
Retail Me Not: Very popular online site that offers over 500,000 coupons from a variety of sites updated daily.
Yowsa: Removes the need for coupon clipping (merchants can add coupons as well). Location based.
The Coupons App : Real-time coupon display, ability to share coupons and more. Features a coupon widget, voice searching and gas pricing updates based upon customer location, more.
In closing, parents spend money on their children during back-to-school time.
It just makes good business sense for a business to use these powerful free mobile apps and coupons to showcase their cost-saving deals in as many places as possible.
Grow strong,
Barbara Ling
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