Where to Use Discount Codes and Vouchers

Online Vouchers and discount codes are only useful to you if you know where and how to use them. There are two places where you can use these money-saving tools, although some retailers may only allow you to use them in only one. Retailers with both an online and a brick and mortar store usually allow you to use your vouchers and discount codes, regardless of where you're shopping. It can be a little tricky using electronic vouchers in a physical store but our How Tos section gives you a way around that. If you're shopping at a retailer with one type of store and not the other, you can check with them if they allow the use of vouchers and discount codes.

Online Shopping

In the past few months, shopping online has become the norm for almost everyone and not just Millennials and Generation Z. People love shopping online for many reasons including:

• The convenience of shopping from the comfort of your home or wherever you can get an internet connection
• It's easier to explore as many options as possible since you can browse thousands of products in hundreds of stores in very little time
• Faster shopping experience
• Orders are usually delivered to your home so you don't even have to get off the couch to get what you need

Besides all the reasons listed above, another thing that people love about online shopping is the potential savings you can get. In a bid to push more customers to their digital platform, most retailers offer lots of perks to their online customers. This includes online-exclusive promotions, rewards, special offers, and even discount codes and vouchers awarded for certain activities you do online like signing up for a newsletter, leaving a review, or sharing the retailer's products on social media.

Online retailers make it easy for you to use your vouchers and discount codes because most of them design their website's payment system to accommodate those tools. On most of those sites, you'll be able to redeem your voucher or discount code on the checkout page when you enter your payment details.

Physical Stores

Even though more people are leaning towards the digital shopping platforms, physical stores aren't going anywhere just yet. There's something about going in a store, pushing a cart around and filling it up, that most people love. Maybe it's the familiarity of the process, or the fact that it's like an adventure where you go out and bring back a lot of fun stuff (which you may or may not regret later).

Physical stores have some advantages over online ones. For example:

• There's a high chance you'll bump into something you didn't know you needed while you're shopping for other essentials
• You can get help right away from store attendants concerning questions you might have about a product
• You get to interact with other people

To keep their customers coming back, physical retailers often offer discounts for shopping in stores, or they allow you to use your online vouchers in their stores. Most of the time, they benefit from the customer's tendency to impulse-buy. (Hands up if you've ever bought something you never even use just because there was a giant sign offering 80% off the retail price).

Some stores may even offer vouchers every time you shop. If you collect enough of those, you can save a lot by using them to get a discount off your purchase the next time you go shopping.