{"id":8573,"date":"2012-01-12T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2012\/01\/12\/puzzling-out-the-upsell-o-meter\/"},"modified":"2012-01-12T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T07:00:01","slug":"puzzling-out-the-upsell-o-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20120112-01\/?p=8573","title":{"rendered":"Puzzling out the upsell-o-meter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I noted before, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2010\/05\/14\/10009455.aspx\"> many grocery stores in the United States have a printer next to the cash register which prints out coupons customized to your purchases<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a purchase and the accompanying coupon. What is the story behind this pairing?\n Purchased: Diapers for newborn baby.<br \/> Coupon: Save 75 cents on ice cream.<\/p>\n<p> <b>Bonus chatter<\/b>: While waiting in line, I read the warning label on the diapers. It went on for quite a bit, but one part triggered my &#8220;I wonder what lawsuit led to this warning&#8221; sensor: &#8220;Like most articles of clothing, XYZ brand diapers will burn if exposed to flame.&#8221; Did somebody say, &#8220;Oh no, there&#8217;s a fire, what will I do? I know, I&#8217;ll smother the fire with my baby&#8217;s diapered bottom!&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I noted before, many grocery stores in the United States have a printer next to the cash register which prints out coupons customized to your purchases. Here&#8217;s a purchase and the accompanying coupon. What is the story behind this pairing? Purchased: Diapers for newborn baby. Coupon: Save 75 cents on ice cream. Bonus chatter: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-8573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>As I noted before, many grocery stores in the United States have a printer next to the cash register which prints out coupons customized to your purchases. Here&#8217;s a purchase and the accompanying coupon. What is the story behind this pairing? Purchased: Diapers for newborn baby. Coupon: Save 75 cents on ice cream. Bonus chatter: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}