Coupon Crazy: The Science, the Savings, and the Stories Behind America's Extreme Obsession (Electronic book text)

Coupon Crazy examines the phenomena of avid coupon use and the socio-cultural and socioeconomic factors that construct it. By delving into the history of couponing, refunding, the science of shopping, and the dark underbelly of a coupon world the average American didn t even know existed, author Mary Potter Kenyon manages to both fascinate and educate the reader. Readers will meet today s Coupon Queens (and Kings) and learn about an era when trash really was cash. Not just an observer of this ethnographic research, Mary lived it for over 30 years."