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Catalina Marketing Corp. is suing Quotient Technology, alleging its competitor’s 2019 move into instant checkout coupon machines came at below-cost predatory pricing and with deceptive marketing to packaged-goods clients.
Unlike Catalina, which prints coupons from a separate machine at checkout in stores nationwide, Quotient’s system prints coupons at the end of receipts and doesn’t require a similar investment in equipment or paper.
The lawsuit filed today in Florida state court in Pinellas County says that Quotient used predatory pricing to enter an agreement with Albertsons to displace Catalina for in-store coupon printing in 2019. And, on Feb. 17, Quotient announced plans to expand to “an unnamed ‘major drug retailer in the second half of 2021.’” Catalina is seeking unspecified damages and costs.