ADVISORY/ FreeRide.com and Catalina Marketing Team Up to Offer FreeRide Points for Grocery Purchases.
Business/Technology Editors
ADVISORY...
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 2000
Consumers Can Now Earn Points Toward Books, CDs,
Movies and More at the Supermarket
With consumers spending more time than ever online, FreeRide - For other uses, see Freeriding (financial) or Free ride (disambiguation).
Freeride is a branch of mountain biking. A relatively new sport combining different aspects of mountain biking, such as downhill and dirtjumping, freeriding has progressed quickly .com
and Catalina Marketing Group have teamed up to offer consumers a way to
save money both online, at the FreeRide.com Web site, and offline at
more than 13,000 supermarkets nation-wide. Now, members of FreeRide.com
can earn points when they purchase groceries at the supermarket and have
those points automatically credited to their own personal online
wallets A online wallet is a program or web service that allows users to store and control their online shopping information, like logins, passwords, shipping address and credit card details, in one central place. . Through this simple method, consumers can earn FreeRide.com
points, which are good for a wide range of extremely popular items
including free movie tickets, books, CDs, gift certificates to
restaurants and gasoline gasoline or petrol, light, volatile mixture of hydrocarbons for use in the internal-combustion engine and as an organic solvent, obtained primarily by fractional distillation and "cracking" of petroleum, but also obtained from natural gas, by at thousands of gas stations around the
country. Now, through this landmark deal, FreeRide.com offers a way for
consumers to earn points not only by surfing surfing, sport of gliding toward the shore on a breaking wave. Surfers originally used long, cumbersome wooden boards but now ride lightweight synthetic boards that allow a greater degree of maneuverability. , searching or shopping on
the Web site, but also by shopping at the supermarket.
Who: FreeRide.com and Consumers Everywhere
What: Earn FreeRide Points at Your Local Supermarket
When: Beginning Today, March 8, 2000
How: Join FreeRide.com (www.freeride.com)
About FreeRide.com
FreeRide.com, (www.freeride.com), is a Web site that offers rewards
to consumers and loyalty marketing programs for sponsors. Members can
rapidly earn FreeRide points by shopping, searching, surfing the Web, or
interacting with sponsors, and redeem redeem v. to buy back, as when an owner who had mortgaged his/her real property pays off the debt. The term also refers to paying the amount due and all charges after a foreclosure (due to failure to make payments when due) has begun. them for more than 1400 free
products and services. FreeRide points can be used for online and
offline offers, such as free CD's, gasoline, groceries, monthly
Internet service, movie tickets, books, gift certificates and flowers
from sponsors such as Borders.com, Marriott Hotels, AT&T WorldNet
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FreeRide is a trademark of FreeRide.com LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.
LLC - Logical Link Control . All other trademarks
are the property of their respective owners.
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