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Chockstone Fuels Community Coffee Company's Sales and Customer Service.


Innovative Loyalty and Gift Card Promotion Accelerates CC's([R])Coffee House In-Store Sales Immediately

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Chockstone Inc., provider of the world's most innovative customer loyalty and stored value solutions, announced today that it is powering a unique blend of customer loyalty, gift card, and community support programs for CC's([R]) Coffee House; and its customers are drinking it up.

"With Chockstone, we were able to sit at a laptop Same as laptop computer.

laptop - portable computer
 in one of our coffeehouses the morning we launched and watch cards being registered and points being redeemed online in real-time," said Danny Hebert, Director of CC's Coffee House, a division of Community Coffee Company. "Our customers loved how quickly they were able to move through the line, how quickly they could get a free drink, and the ability to give back to the community - just by registering their cards."

CC's blended a gift card program with incentives to register and manage its Coffee House Cards online at a special branded website, www.myccscard.com. Incentives include earning points towards a free drink, points for registering the cards online, and the ability to earn money for a favorite school through the Community Cash for Schools[TM] program.

"CC's had the vision to take its existing Coffee House Card program and upgrade it with loyalty programs to really engage its customers," said Holly Files, COO of Chockstone. "We are not surprised that such a well-designed, integrated program using many of Chockstone's capabilities has delivered immediate financial results."

Chockstone's advanced technology platform has been deployed in more than 30,000 leading restaurants and retailers such as Subway subway: see rapid transit.
subway

Underground railway system used to transport passengers within urban and suburban areas. The first subway line, 3.
, Ticketmaster and Community Coffee Company. The company delivers real-time promotions at the point-of-sale (POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET.

(2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak.

POS - point of sale
) as well as online - extending retail brand loyalty and community building to the web.

Chockstone's platform processes mission-critical transaction data, and turns that data into information that can help retailers drive incremental Additional or increased growth, bulk, quantity, number, or value; enlarged.

Incremental cost is additional or increased cost of an item or service apart from its actual cost.
 sales. Chockstone also provides credit and debit card debit card, card that allows the cost of goods or services that are purchased to be deducted directly from the purchaser's checking account. They can also be used at automated teller machines for withdrawing cash from the user's checking account.  gateway processing services, linking financial systems to marketing systems, improving transaction speed and providing immediate visibility into results.

About Community Coffee Company

Community Coffee Company was founded in 1919 in Baton Rouge Baton Rouge (băt`ən rzh) [Fr.,=red stick], city (1990 pop. 219,531), state capital and seat of East Baton Rouge parish, SE La.  by Henry Norman This article is about the journalist. For the colonial governor, see Henry Wylie Norman.
Sir Henry Norman, 1st Baronet PC (September 19, 1858 –June 4, 1939) was an English journalist and Liberal politician.
 "Cap" Saurage. Today, the Company is still family-owned and operated and is the largest family-owned retail coffee brand in America. Community Brand products are available in Louisiana, Texas and the Southeast in grocery stores, offices, restaurants, hotels and convenience stores The following is a list of convenience stores organized by geographical location. Stores are grouped by the lowest heading that contains all locales in which the brands have significant presence. . Specialty quality Private Reserve([R]) coffees can be found at CC's Coffee House locations in Baton Rouge, Lafayette and New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded  as well as through CommunityCoffee.com. Community proudly roasts and packages its fine coffees locally, in Louisiana. For more information, visit www.CommunityCoffee.com.

About Chockstone

Chockstone provides the most innovative personalization Custom tailoring information to the individual. On the Web, personalization means returning a page that has been customized for the user, taking into consideration that person's habits and preferences. , loyalty and stored value solutions available to merchants today. Chockstone's programs are used by leading brands in the restaurant, retail, and convenience store markets to increase consumer loyalty and drive profitability. Headquartered in Portland, Ore., Chockstone, Inc., is a privately-held corporation. To learn more about Chockstone's products and services, visit www.chockstone.com.
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