( CNN ) -- Groupon , always good for a discounted pizza or spa treatment , is adding gadgets and other goods in an e-commerce expansion . Groupon Goods , unveiled this week by the Chicago-based Web service , is a departure for the company which , since 2008 , has been sharing mainly service-industry offers with users as it helped define the daily-deals space . The move comes as Groupon approaches a $ 750 million public stock offering ( albeit one that has been postponed amid a turbulent stock market ) . `` Groupon Goods features really good deals on great products , '' Groupon wrote on the FAQ page about the service . `` To get airspace on Groupon Goods , a product has to be cool enough to share and innovative enough to inspire . It also must be made of reliably bonded molecules and stardust . `` Honestly , if we think a product is remarkable and we can offer a good deal on it , we 'll do so . '' So , presumably , you could score a deal on a laptop , smartphone or other gadget along with the typical sort of offers . ( We 're holding out hope for the combination headphones/hair rejuvenation system that shoots lasers at your head . ) If Groupon did n't have a history of irreverent descriptions and humor ( Super Bowl ad , anyone ? ) that would sound an awful lot to us like a line lifted from Woot ! , the venerable site which , since 2004 , has been offering ... well ... daily deals promoted with irreverent descriptions and humor . The service will limit the number of daily items each user can purchase and , at least in the beginning , ship straight from the retailer . All products will be shipped in the contiguous 48 U.S. states , with shipping to Hawaii , Alaska , Puerto Rico and Canada possible depending on the individual deal . The Groupon Goods deals will arrive daily in users ' e-mail , the same way current Groupon offers do .
Groupon adds online retailing to daily operations . Groupon stores will feature actual items alongside features like restaurant discounts . Products will be shipped straight from home , with a limit on how many you can buy .