{"id":4600,"date":"2011-12-22T22:23:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T22:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2012-04-16T22:33:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T21:33:27","slug":"groupon-group-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2011\/12\/groupon-group-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Groupon &#8211; Group off!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone fancy setting up an anti-Groupon movement?<\/p>\n<p>Group off.<\/p>\n<p>It seems the more we find out about the operating system of this company the more they seem determined to pick on the small-medium size business and force them into discounting so heavily that they often make a loss. Really.<\/p>\n<p>They then take 50% of whatever the profit no matter how small is.<\/p>\n<p>They are bottom feeders.<\/p>\n<p>Feeding off the free enterprise and creative energy that someone else has applied in order to start their business.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody likes a vulture.<\/p>\n<p>Allegedly this was the meeting that ended up in the formation of Groupon. As you can see vultures &#8211; the lot of them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone fancy setting up an anti-Groupon movement? Group off. It seems the more we find out about the operating system of this company the more&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}