Clippin’ Coupons
By Erik Gunther
Originally published Wed, July 19, 2006, 4:58 pm PDT
Grocery Shopping
It never hurts to save a few pennies, especially when prices are going up. Some of us frequent restaurants that offer free soda refills, others make a dinner out of free buffalo wings and peanuts at happy hour, and some of the more savvy among us clip coupons. These scraps of paper come in handy at the supermarket checkout line, and searches on “grocery coupons” jumped a whopping 190% yesterday.
But the grocery store isn’t the only spot for savings—searches on plain ol’ “coupons” rose 40% as well. Maybe we’re all in a belt-tightening mode, or perhaps we’re trying to stick it to “The Man” in any small way we can. Either way, we present the top 20 coupon searches over the last week…
