Voucher codes are more popular than ever at the moment with more and more people searching online for a discount code to save money off of a purchase. Promotional codes and coupons are regularly used by retailers to promote new products or entice customers in but it is strange to think that voucher codes have now been around for almost 100 years.
There are conflicting reports with regards when the first voucher code was actually produced and used but we know that 1909 was the first time when they began to be used on a wider scale. C.W Post used promotional vouchers in order to get people to buy their cereals and this started the ball rolling on an advertising method that has developed into one of the mist effective and well used forms or advertising for retailers today.
“It is strange to think that voucher codes have been around for so long. In the UK especially voucher codes and coupons, particularly online ones, have only started to rocket in use over the last few years,” said Voucher Alerts Marketing Director Danny Watson.
“The US have been using coupons on a large scale for much longer than we have in the UK but that is starting to change with the UK now really starting to see the benefit of using discount voucher codes and the money they can save. I bet you the guy who came up with the idea all those years ago had no idea how important an advertising tool vouchers would become.”
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