{"id":336,"date":"2008-04-06T18:10:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T01:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=336"},"modified":"2009-07-26T23:49:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T06:49:17","slug":"marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So whoever came up with this idea is brilliant&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Back in Pittsburgh, one time while shopping at Giant Eagle, I got a register coupon for some amount off one bottle of this new 100% juice stuff (I had been buying a lot of juice, stupid tracking buying habits). So I figured, &#8220;Eh, why not?&#8221; and bought a bottle the next time with the coupon, only to receive a coupon for slightly more than twice as much off two bottles of the same juice.<br \/>\nNaturally, I had to do it and, of course, when I did I got a coupon for slightly more than 1.5x off three bottles.<\/p>\n<p>The same thing has been happening here at Safeway. Once while shopping I got a coupon for like $0.30 off one package of lean pockets. When I used it, I got a coupon for $0.75 off two packages of lean pockets. I am now in possession of a coupon for $1.25 off any three packages of lean pockets. Tricky tricky.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m half tempted to keep buying them just to see if\/when they stop. Maybe I&#8217;ll get a coupon evenually for like $100 off 150 packages or something &gt;_&lt;<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m going to be getting lean pockets again next time I shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So whoever came up with this idea is brilliant&#8230; Back in Pittsburgh, one time while shopping at Giant Eagle, I got a register coupon for some amount off one bottle of this new 100% juice stuff (I had been buying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=336\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}