Offering a Groupon puts a merchant’s reputation at risk. The audience being reached may be more critical than their typical audience or have a more tenuous fit with the merchant.
John Byers, a professor of computer science at Boston University who worked on a recent study that analyzed thousands of Groupon and LivingSocial deals
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