Shoppers Should Chase Depth Over Volume This Week

Readers scanning for savings this week should weight discount depth and expiration timing over the sheer size of the new arrivals list.

This week the smarter move is to check the deep discount list before browsing the full corpus, since 4,320 offers across 1,717 retailers are cutting half price or more. With 1,930 offers across 584 retailers set to lapse in the coming window, codes worth using are worth using now rather than saving for later.

New Arrivals This Window

We logged 4,659 new offers from 1,450 retailers this week, additions to a corpus that now stands at 76,113 offers across 4,571 retailers. That keeps the pool of active codes broad, though a large pool is not the same as a deep one, which is why the discount depth figures above matter more this week.

Category Discount Ranking

Entertainment & Media sits at the top of the ranking by average percentage off, ahead of Tech & Electronics and Office & Business, though its share of the whole corpus is modest next to its ranking position. Clothing & Accessories carries the largest share of any qualifying category this week, sitting near three tenths of the way to a majority share, yet its average discount lands well down the list. The spread shows depth of discount and size of category moving in different directions this week, which is the pattern worth watching rather than the ranking itself.

Sync Log This Window

Across 1 runs this week we checked 78,329 listings against merchant and affiliate feeds, adding 6,359 and retiring 5,203. We mirror those feeds and match every offer against them once a day. We do not open carts, test codes by hand, or contact retailers directly.

Miles Ashworth

Miles writes the weekly code report and the category rankings for Couptic, working from the tracker database rather than from retailer announcements. Every figure he publishes carries the date and the query behind it.

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