Coupon Acronyms & Terms
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When you first start to coupon and refund (and even if you’re a seasoned veteran), you may be faced with a large number of abbreviations, acronyms and terms which your can’t make heads or tails of. The following is a list of these terms to help you better understand what everyone is talking about:
Blinkies - coupon dispersed from an instore smartsource coupon machine (usually with a blinking light)
BOGO or B1G1F - Buy one, get one free
BTFE - Box Tops for Education
BTW - By the way
B&M - Brick & Mortar, (supermarket, etc.) as opposed to an online “virtual” store
Catalina - Catalina Category Marketing (CCM) rewards purchases of promoted products with “catalinas”, also known as “check-out coupons”. These offer incentives good on your next shopping trip to that retailer.
C/O - cents off coupon
COH - Cut Out Hunger
CRT - Cash register tape
CYE - Check your email
DCRT - Dated cash register tape
DCRTC - Dated cash register tape with the price circled
DND - Do Not Double
Double coupon - coupon that a grocery store matches to “double” the value to the consumer
ECB - CVS Extra Care Bucks earned for purchases
FAR - Free After Rebate
HBA - The health and beauty aid
HT or HgT - Hang tags for refunds or coupons hanging on a product
HTH - Hope this/that helps
ISO - In Search Of
IDSO - In Desperate Search Of
IVC - Walgreen’s Instant Value Coupon
IVDSO - In Very Desperate Search Of
KWIM - Know what I mean?
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