Just in time for Black Friday and the Holiday shopping season to follow, Google has introduced the ability for you to bypass the coupon clipping and show coupons to merchants directly from your cellphone. Through Google’s Local Business Center (LBC), small and large businesses alike can register on this Google listing for free and allow people to locate them through this single portal on their mobile phones.

Now companies are able to add coupons to their listing, and they will immediately be listed in a section on their company’s page. They also have the ability to edit their coupons incase of errors or overuse due to extremely low advertised prices. These listings can be accessed easily from your mobile browser through google.com/lbc.

The main problem that has been popping up is the inability of barcode readers to read the barcodes from the screen of the phone. This will most likely cause companies to simply make custom ads for phones that include a code like the one featured in the above picture. The only other seems to be the inability of people to find local business on LBC at all.

Bunyan