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mk · 4800 days ago · link · · parent · post: Groupon has spent about as much on advertising this year as Visa and Time Warner Cable.
My sense is that bargain shoppers are not the type that make loyal customers, almost by definition. This thing is unraveling.
I have a feeling that Foursquare and Yelp are going to break into this, but instead of getting emails, they are just going to notify you if there are any deals around you. I might be a bit more inclined to use something like that. BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15574954 "How do you sustain a model where on average the customer, not the person who buys the coupon but the business itself, loses money? "You get companies that don't know any better, they lose 10 grand, and they don't come back."