RetailMeNot is an online coupon site, and its done a very smart thing by adding browser plug-ins and widgets that help you shop. There are three new tools for doing so, including a Firefox extension, a Google gadget, and a widget for Mac Dashboards. Each of these will alert you when you come across a website that has available coupons. These all update weekly.
The Firefox extension may be the most useful, as it’s the easiest to take advantage of. It keeps you from having to return to RetailMeNot for repeated checking, and cuts down on time spent for comparison purposes. You won’t have to check and see if there are any coupons for the site you’re visiting, and the automation of this process makes things easier for you.
This goes along with the concept of having coupons for immediate access–instant gratification, that is. We’ve seen it a lot on the mobile front, with services like Text2Store delivering mobile coupons while you’re offline, in a store, and Whrrl, which hopes to earn advertising revenue by delivering targeted ads based on your exact (retail) location.
RetailMeNot is building up its collection of tools to make coupon delivery a less-than-tedious action for you. It already had a bookmarking tool, and JungleCrazy, which finds and delivers deals specifically for Amazon.
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