Gap scoring high with Groupon

by Deepak Sharma on Thursday, August 19, 2010

US Retailer Gap just scored a home run with Groupon deal of the day. According to Techcrunch:

As of 11AM PST (the e-mail blast went out at roughly 6AM in each time zone) Groupon has sold 200,000 Groupons and is currently selling roughly 10 per second. Ten sales per second is an unusually high volume, Mason says, “several multiples above the average.”

If this trend persists, Groupon will likely sell more than 700,000 Gap Groupons by the end of day. Or, roughly $17.5 million in revenues for the daily deal machine. (That will buy you a lot of monkeys.)

Although Groupon has dabbled in multi-city deals, this is the first time they have partnered with a national retailer for a full countrywide roll out.

Update: Groupon reported Friday that it sold 445,000 vouchers for retailer Gap, bringing in $11 million in revenue.