Your coupons may or may not be the same. Sometimes, the company does a ‘nationwide’ promotion, where all across the country they’re pushing the same offer.

But it works the other way, too. As the previous answer states, many times these promotions are regional, or unique deals to build sales and traffic for only 1 supermarket chain in your area at a time.

Then, there’s also the variable and flexibility that some bring to Internet promotions. Offering a promotion on the net, a company can tweak the offer in just a few seconds with a new piece of code. However, they are ’stuck’ with the printed newspaper’s weeks in advance deadlines. So what you see in the paper may be an older offer; what you see online may be a new and hot price drop because they want to see some sales immediately.

Companies often use newspaper coupons to push a product in a particular region. In one town, Pillsbury might sell less flour than Gold Medal, or Betty Crocker brownies might do better than Pillsbury brownies. So they might put in a coupon to get people in Chicago, or Denver, or whatever to try their brand. But online coupons are available to everyone, so they are not particular to one area.

In all cases, however, you will see fine print that says something like, “may not be combined with other offers.” Just compare the coupons and use the best one.

Good luck!!