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the restaurant and bar has introduced a promotion which gives a discount of USD 1 on cocktails for every 1 percent that the markets declined that day - the worse they performed, the larger the discount on the drink. A drop of five percent at the end of the day will result in the maximum value of USD 5 knocked off the price of cocktails on the menu, which includes Strawberry Caipirinhas, Silver Coin Margaritas and the Old "Waldorf" Fashioneds, costing around USD 14 to USD 18.

 Volga Verdi is a California-based fashion brand that offers its customers discounts depending on the number of friends, followers or fans they have on popular social networks.

Twitter users, for example, get a discount of USD 7 if they have between 20 and 200 followers, or USD 15 if they have more. 

app that rewards people to tweeting about a non-profit, volunteering, etc. points redeemable for discounts at local companies.

You'll be given 60 seconds to answer five questions, each worth a 10 cent discount. You can use two different lifesavers in case you're stuck, or just skip to a new question. Although the discount is limited to once per day, you can play the trivia for fun as much as you'd like.

AMEX can use twitter to get discounts.  they tweet hastag or search a term unique to offer and after the purchase, the discount is added to the amex card

hotels are offering 15% discounts to people for leaving their gadgets at the front desk. some also offer massages for this. cuts down on people using their tablets to watch movies instead of paying, gets people out doing more stuff through the hotel and enjoying their time there more

The Ubox app enables users to pay for snacks at vending machines using their phone, awarding a 10 percent discount on all purchases made this way.

redbox offers discounts between $0.10- $1 for foursquare checkins

gap and getglue partnership.  watch from a list of recommended shows.  checkin to shows to receive stickers and win discounts on gap products.  75,000 stickers unlocked so far.

NYT trying to ease readers in to paying for the content by offering a discounted subscription plan of $0.99 for the first month

Money is what matters;-)

"Several companies have successfully built cooperative marketing structures online. Companies such as OwnerIQ, for example, enable online retailers like Crutchfield to retarget people who visit the web sites of electronics manufacturers, offering the flatscreen TVs they were just studying - at a discount. When it comes to driving brick-and-mortar sales from online, though, Facebook appears to offer the best solution yet. CPG brands gladly pay for retail circulars to help sell their products, and there's reason to believe they could buy Facebook advertising to drive consumers into retail locations. One company with which we work, ShopLocal, puts a retailer's circular content into a database, including images and all the sale prices and details. In so doing it makes local data portable and extendable, so retailers can build online-only pages of the circular, or utilize QR codes to generate more content than exists in the print world."

Shoppers have become increasingly comfortable using the smartphone or tablet to browse retailer offerings, look for discounts and compare products-whether on the go or on the couch. For moms especially, who tend to lead shopping and mobile trends, the use of these smart devices may have reached the tipping point: Mobile has become more than a nice accessory to augment the shopping process; it has become an essential stop in the path to purchase. Read more at http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Moms-Mobile-Part-of-Shopping-Routine/1009722#qpdE6EZ6QEPTj4Lx.99 

Korean discount chain E-mart created a flying store that went to every corner of Seoul to reach customers not living near to one of their locations. The "store" was a small truck-shaped balloon equipped with a wi-fi router.

"But advertisers have loads of their own offline data from existing customers that they have not been able to use to target search ads. Conversions API allows those advertisers to upload phone numbers and in-store purchase data and use that information to target search ads through DoubleClick, Google's search ad system. Google's announcement was thin on details. It says advertisers can now "upload new conversions to account for in-store transactions, call-tracking, or other offline activities, or edit existing conversions to account for discounts, returns, credit, or fraud.""

Well, the number of American Express members who chose to participate are impressive, as is the resulting activity. Here are the statistics to date as reported by Visibli, which is keeping a real-time tally: 25,705 members have joined the program (72 new users per hour); 156,415 special offer hashtag messages have been tweeted (286 tweets per hour); $7,051,729 total dollars have been spent; $1,402,625 in discounts have been collected; And the numbers continue to mount!

a brwoser add-on that keeps an eye out on prices for products you want. will notify you when it drops to a sale price you would purchase it for

In Barnes & Noble's largest Nook promotion yet, the bookstore chain is offering discounted or free Nooks to those who purchase one-year subscriptions to the Nook editions of People or the New York Times. It's the first time a major retailer has offered an e-reader free with a content subscription.

Win a memory game to win discounts with participating independent designers