In Addition To The Sites Listed Below...Many National Companies--Stores--Restaurants Offer Senior Disconts. Some Advertise the Discount Allowance.. Some Do Not. The Only Way For You To Know If Discounts Are Not Advertsed Or Posted. Is To Ask

Wendy's..You Have To Ask

Hardee's

White Castle..In Some Locations

Kohls Department Stores...On Wednesday In Our Area

Bakers Square...In Chicago Area...If You Tell Them That you are a Senior

Belks Department Store

Banks..Many Offer Free Checking & Other Perks To Seniors

Burger King

Many... If Not All..Airlines Offer Senior Discounts

Many .. If Not All...Car-Van-Truck Rental Companies Offer Senior Discounts

Old Country Buffet

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As you buy on Web, check out those discounts

The secret is to use discount codes, also called promotional codes or coupons. They are widely available if you know where to look. And they can add up to significant savings for frequent online shoppers.

If you don't have a discount code, you might ignore the box for the code and go forward with your purchase.

At promotional code site CouponCabin.com, the average savings is $8 per transaction, said Scott Kluth, founder of the site. Consumer savings for 2005 from CouponCabin alone totaled $2.8 million, he said.

"Wouldn't it be nice if you could do that at the grocery store? Say to the cashier, Wait right here, while I go get a coupon over there, '" Nelson said.

Use search engines. Call up a few of your favorite Web search engines to find codes. Type in the retailer's name, the word "code" and other such terms as "promotional," "coupon" and "discount."

Try code aggregators.  Some Web sites compile these discount codes for you. Examples besides
CouponMom.com
CouponCabin.com
are:
FlamingoWorld.com
CouponMountain.com.

"There are literally thousands of coupon code Web sites," and they have different codes,  Nelson said.

If the aggregator's Web page has a long list of codes, search the Web page with your browser's "Find" function, usually hitting keys Control + F.

Input the codes you find. Highlight and copy the code, return to your checkout browser and paste the found promotional code into the box, or just type the code. Often, you won't know whether the code you found has expired, but there's no harm in trying it.

"The downfall of many coupon code sites is that they don't take the time or have the staff to update the codes, which can expire at any time," Nelson said.

If you type in a correct code, the discount will be applied to your order.

A few minutes of searching could yield worthwhile savings. Recent offers at CouponCabin.com included 10 percent off a Circuit City purchase of $199 or more, free shipping at J.C. Penney and $15 off an order of $30 or more at Lane Bryant.

Another way to obtain promotional codes is to sign up for newsletters and promotional e­mails from your favorite retailers--promotional codes and special offers often are included in these e-mails. You might want to establish a separate e-mail account for these offers so your regular inbox doesn't become cluttered with promotions. Yahoo, Microsoft Hotmail and many others offer Web based e-mail service for free.

As always, don't spend money you didn't intend to just because you have a special offer or coupon.

But if you're buying something anyway, promotional codes have become so prevalent it's always worth code hunting.

Gregory Karp is a personal finance writer for The Morning Call, a Tribune Co. newspaper in Allentown, Pa. E-mail him at your oney@tribune.com.
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Copyright:The Morning Call, a Tribune Co. newspaper in Allentown, Pa.

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