Thursday, September 3, 2009

Price Cutter woos shoppers with mobile coupons

Price Cutter is using mobile to offer shoppers more convenience through coupons on the go and voice-recognition customer assistance.

“The strategy is to use the power of mobile to offer shoppers a new level of customer service that will make shopping at Price Cutter more convenient,” said Nathan Pettyjohn, CEO of Aisle411 Inc., St. Louis. "By using mobile to offer a customer service tool, Aisle411 and Price Cutter hope to gain the trust of consumers and thereby offer relevant promotional offers in the form of audio messages and mobile coupons.” Shoppers who call, state their location and the store, ask for the item and then receive the location of the product via an audio message and by text within seconds.

“It is our expectation that the mobile coupons offered through Aisle411 are at the peak of the purchasing cycle within the store, and we expect to see high redemption rates based on the timing of the SMS coupon delivery – within minutes or even seconds of a purchase,” Mr. Pettyjohn said. “With SMS, we’re also looking at bridging the gap between the more sophisticated phones that play video, by offering Web links that can display product demonstration videos or reviews for customers while they’re in store. From Mobile Marketer at http://bit.ly/EKaPl

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