I was just wandering the web when I stumbled across an article on Yahoo Finance about Shortcuts, a new service of AOL. This is a totally paperless, online coupon program linked to store loyalty cards. Shortcuts makes it easy to click, shop, and save; on the products you buy every week. The way it works is that customers go to the Shortcuts website and link coupons for products to their customer loyalty cards. then when your card is scanned the coupon automatically is applied to your purchase. It's a fantastic idea that makes it easy with no coupon cutting and remembering to bring them with you. There's also the "green" aspect of the program in cutting down on paper use and waste.
So far the service is only offered to Kroger's and affiliate stores customers, but that should change soon. For a growing list of all the partner stores click here.
For three months, AOL polled its readers for their favorite coffee, and last week, they did their final tally, coming up with 
Sometimes I wonder to myself how some of my friends can even say something like "I couldn't get any work done today. I was on MySpace all day long." On MySpace? All day? What on earth are you looking at on MySpace for eight hours?!?!
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