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April 13, 2011
Daily deal avalanche swamping U.S. merchants
Groupon pays the merchant upfront but keeps half the purchase price of each offer, plus a charge to the merchant for the credit card transaction fee. That adds up, for example, to less than $10 to the merchant for each $20 Groupon offer purchased. The consumer then redeems that offer for $40 worth of goods or services.
From where I sit, merchants borrow $10 "upfront" but then need to pay back $40 worth of goods and services.
“If the customer spends exactly $40, you lose money,” Benecky said.
You think?
Hotels: Occupancy Rate Decreased 3.5% Year-over-year
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From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 16 November
Due to the Veteran’s Day calendar shift, the U.S. hotel industry reported
mixed year-over-year per...
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http://www.kitco.com/reports/KitcoNewsMarketNuggets20110414.html
Aluminum tsunami coming--just wante y'all to be the first to know :).
Groupon is a joke.
Saw aluminum foil at Sam's Club today.
It is competing for Progresso soup as the least likely things investors feel the need to hoard apparently.
I keep waiting for inflation to appear in either of them. Go figure.
That said, the CPI ran a bit hot again today. It was mostly expected though, thanks to rising energy prices.
As for Groupon, the biggest joke would be a Groupon hug! Oh how I cringe at the thought of that, lol. ;)
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