Report: Providence 20th most frugal city in U.S.

PROVIDENCE RANKED 20th on a list from Coupons.com of America's Most Frugal Cities based on coupon use. Orlando ranked No. 1. / COURTESY COUPONS.COM
PROVIDENCE RANKED 20th on a list from Coupons.com of America's Most Frugal Cities based on coupon use. Orlando ranked No. 1. / COURTESY COUPONS.COM

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s capital city has some of the most frugal residents in the nation thanks to their digital coupon use.

Providence ranked 20th on a list of the top 25 most frugal cities, with an average savings of $96.59 per user, $267.23 per active user and 3,750,244 digital coupons “clipped.” Shoppers in Providence save an average of $5.1 million. Cities were ranked according to their “coupon-clipping” habits by Coupons.com, Quotient Technology Inc.’s coupon website.
Orlando, Fla., topped the list as shoppers there saved an estimated $17.9 million by using nearly 12 million digital coupons last year.
Washington, D.C.; Charlotte, N.C.; New York City; Atlanta; Cleveland; Tampa, Fla.; Nashville, Tenn.; Raleigh, N.C.; and Virginia Beach, Va., rounded out the rest of the top 10.
Boston was the only other New England city to make the list, ranking 16th.
According to the 2015 Coupons.com Savings Index, shoppers in 2015 used more than 1.6 billion digital coupons, saving more than $2.3 billion on consumer packaged goods, including grocery and household items.
“Our Coupons.com 2015 Most Frugal Cities List demonstrates the growth and popularity of couponing, with shoppers saving nearly $10 million more dollars using digital coupons than the year prior,” Jeanette Pavini, Coupons.com consumer savings expert, said in a statement.
The “Most Frugal Cities” list was developed using the Coupons.com Savings Index, the total possible savings and coupon transactions of frequent coupons users in metro areas across the United States in 2015. Frequent coupons users are defined as people who use at least one coupon per month for six months – consecutive or non-consecutive. Cities are ranked by metro with a total population of 1.5 million (determined by the 2010 U.S. Census) or more with overall savings determined by both population and savings per person in each metro area.

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