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mjloves2teach
08-10-2008, 02:01 PM
I use the coupon databases found on the web ~ but what about a Catalina datatbase or spreadsheet even.

People get the slips outlining the deals and they share the upcoming info but it is always a week or so before it starts. It gets buried and when you need to know the info you can't find it.

Maybe have:

start date
end date
qualifying items
purchase X get you Y
confirmed stores working at (when the upcoming promo slip prints)

So say the P&G would get 3 lines if it is a B3G$5, B4G$7, B5G$10.

But when I was in WG a few days ago I was trying to decide if it was 3 or 4 to get 2 movie tickets (because the 2 tix is a much better deal!)

Of course if it is a good idea everyone will steal it, but it might generate traffic if people know they can look up catalina data here. Then people refer other people because of it.

skyesmom
08-10-2008, 03:01 PM
Sounds like an awesome idea! Now who can build it?

mjloves2teach
08-10-2008, 03:18 PM
I think a google document might be enough ~ an Excel like spreadsheet, kinda like Coupon mom lists deals.

The only problem with a Google doc only has a set author so people can't edit and add to it.

Barb
08-10-2008, 08:11 PM
You go girl, lol

mjloves2teach
08-10-2008, 09:24 PM
You go girl, lol

I wasn't volunteering :lol: I was just brainstorming!!!:na:

Toni-Lynn
08-10-2008, 09:26 PM
I think that would be even more involved than a regular coupon database. To many versions and stores and .. ohhhh my head hurts...

mjloves2teach
08-10-2008, 09:41 PM
So create a google account that a "team" of 3 or 4 people have access to and those people would be responsible for adding new items and moving expired ones down to the bottom so there would be a reference that the deal did exist but had ended.

The deal is basically the same at grocery stores and then there is WG.

Just have a thread for "Add to Catalina info" and they can add their store say if the "Confirmed Stores" list Acme, Krogers &Topps and I try it at Winn Dixie and it works then I could just post that WD is confirmed.

Of course it would have huge YMMV disclaimers since like the Axe last week was working on trials then stopped working on any and all!