AOL's Shortcuts.com Adds Safeway Supermarkets to Roster.More than 1,500 Grocery Stores Added to Electronic Coupon Service NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- AOL's Shortcuts See Win Shortcuts. .com, http://www.shortcuts.com, a free, paperless electronic coupon service that links coupons directly to participating grocery store savings cards, today announced shoppers can now use this free service at all Safeway Inc. owned stores nationwide. Safeway Inc. has 1,554 stores in 22 states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). under local brands such as Safeway, Carrs, Dominick's, Genuardi's, Pavilions, Randalls, Tom Thumb Tom Thumb, 1838–83, American entertainer, whose original name was Charles Sherwood Stratton, b. Bridgeport, Conn. His career as General Tom Thumb began in 1842, when the showman P. T. and Vons. "We're excited to make Shortcuts.com electronic coupons available to millions of Safeway, Inc. shoppers, helping them save money on groceries," said Kimberley Partoll, Executive Vice President, New Ventures, AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. . "In this economy, consumers are eager to save money and are turning to the Web to help them make the most of their time and money. Partnering with Safeway provides top-tier brands looking to increase coupon use with access to millions of consumers across the country." "Shoppers are spending more and more time online and we see electronic coupons loaded to their shopper card as a way to better serve our customers." said Michelle Marian, Vice President Interactive Marketing, Safeway Inc. "As Safeway launches the new couponLink program, we're excited to partner with Shortcuts.com to offer our customers a unique way to save at our stores and online. Also our customers who shop online at Safeway.com can use the digital coupons, which is a new and exciting option for them." With just three simple steps, Shortcuts.com is a free and easy solution for saving money on groceries. Consumers visit Shortcuts.com, enter their store savings card, and select the coupons they want. Selected coupons are then loaded to their grocery store savings card and the coupons are automatically redeemed at checkout when the registered card is swiped. Shoppers benefit because they are not burdened with the hassles of paper coupons -- remembering, sorting, clipping (1) Cutting off the outer edges or boundaries of a word, signal or image. In rendering an image, clipping removes any objects or portions thereof that are not visible on screen. See scissoring. See also WCA. . Shortcuts.com makes saving money on groceries easier than ever. With the addition of Safeway Inc. to its roster, Shortcuts.com is now available to shoppers of more than 4,000 grocery stores nationwide with coupon offers from top brands such as Betty Crocker Betty Crocker, an invented persona and mascot, is a brand name and trademark of American food company General Mills. The name was first developed by the Washburn Crosby Company in 1921 as a way to give a personalized response to consumer product questions. , Fiber One, Pillsbury, Yoplait and more. Access to the Shortcuts.com coupons is also available through Shortcuts.com Mobile, which enables shoppers the convenience of loading coupons onto their store savings cards while on the go. From their cell phones or smart phones,1 users simply click on the coupons they want and within minutes of selection, the coupons are ready for use on the shoppers' grocery store savings cards. Consumers have made Shortcuts.com the no. 1 direct-to-card electronic coupon site,2 reaching more than 1.3 million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. each month, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. May 2009 comScore Media Metrix data. The number of Americans using online coupons See e-centives. rose 39 percent to 36 million between 2005 and 2008 and online coupon usage is up 56 percent year over year.3 Meanwhile, 58 percent of consumers favor electronic coupons delivered directly to their store loyalty cards.4 About Shortcuts.com Shortcuts.com, a free service of AOL, is a completely paperless electronic coupon program linked to store savings cards. Shortcuts.com makes it easy for consumers to save on the products they buy every week without the hassle of paper coupons. For more on Shortcuts.com, visit http://www.shortcuts.com. For more on Safeway, visit http://www.safeway.com. 1 (Cell phone data plan required. Carrier charges may apply.) 2 (Custom AOL-defined Direct-to-Card Electronic Coupon category: Shortcuts, Cellfire.com, pgesaver.com, gianteagle.com, lowesfoods.com, based on comScore) (Media Metrix Audience Duplication report (May 2009)) 3 Hitwise, July 2008 4 ICOM ICOM International Council Of Museums ICOM Integrated Communications ICOM Input, Control, Output, & Mechanism ICOM Integrated COMSEC ICOM International Currency Options Master Agreement ICOM Improved Conventional Mine ICOM Interim Communications Operations Method Survey, April 2008 |
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