INTERACTIVE: Daily Deal Calculator

Find out how much a local business actually makes off each Groupon you buy

By WW Staff

This week's cover story, Cheat Local!, explores how local businesses get crushed buy daily deals sites like Groupon. As the article explains:

a Groupon this week
We put together a tool to help you work out just how much a local business will make from that daily deal that just landed in your inbox.
Price of product/service $
Percentage discount %
Percent taken by deals site %
Amount kept by retailer

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