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May
case lot sale promises more bulk for less
This
year's May case lot event is shaping up to be the
biggest spring sale yet with about 100 more products
offered from the 260 available during last year's
May event. Some 50-60 percent of the items are sold
in club pack product assortments similar to the
oversized or multiple products sold at commercial
warehouse club outlets. Most commissaries hold case
lot sales, but schedule them on different weekends
throughout May. You can visit the comprehensive
worldwide case lot sale page at www.commissaries.com/case_lot_sale.cfm
to find out when your store is hosting a sale.
Customers who live in regions with multiple
commissaries can use the DeCA Web site to frequent
all the sales in their area.
For
the full news release, please click here: www.commissaries.com/press_room/press_release/2009/DeCA_31_09.cfm
Every
Day is Mom's Day at your commissary!
Every
day, in commissaries around the world, mothers are
shopping for their families. They often pay
attention to everyone but themselves. The Defense
Commissary Agency would like to lavish some
well-deserved attention on the military mom for a
change. Each store will highlight a special shopping
area for military moms, a place where mothers can
purchase discounted products to treat themselves or
where their husbands, children and grandchildren can
also do the honors. It's the commissary's way of
saying thank you to a customer demographic that
represents about 80 percent of daily commissary
shoppers.
For
the full news release, please click here: www.commissaries.com/press_room/press_release/2009/DeCA_01_09.cfm
DeCA
accepting commissary CertifiChecks through July 31
The
Defense Commissary Agency will accept outstanding
CertifiCheck gift certificates from authorized
customers thanks to a plan approved by the
Department of Defense. The approved plan allows DeCA
commissaries to honor CertifiCheck gift checks
through July 31, 2009. CertifiChecks Inc., the
Dayton, Ohio, company that has issued the commissary
gift checks since 2002, announced Feb. 26 on its Web
site that it had ceased operations and was filing
Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Since then, DeCA had worked
non-stop with DoD officials to settle on a legal
recourse it could offer its customers left holding
the unredeemable CertifiChecks.
For
the full news release, please click here: www.commissaries.com/press_room/press_release/2009/DeCA_23_09.cfm
Eat
Healthy Be Active Your Way in May!
On
May 5, Philip E. Sakowitz Jr., Director and CEO of
the Defense Commissary Agency, and Rear Adm.
Penelope "Penney" Slade-Sawyer, Acting
Executive Director of the President's Council on
Physical Fitness and Sports for the Department of
Health and Human Services, met at Fort Belvoir
Commissary to sign a proclamation declaring May as
National Physical Fitness and Sports Month.
DeCA
is calling on employees, customers and all Americans
to Be Active Your Way in May by engaging in physical
activity. We invite you to join us in taking the
President's Challenge and agreeing to be active five
days a week for six weeks. You can register
at www.presidentschallenge.org
and log your activity at the Web site. It is
recommended that adults spend a minimum of 30
minutes a day being active.
HOT
LINKS
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We have embarked on an ambitious campaign to take
commissary goods to Guard and Reserve centers across
the
United States
for regional on-site sales. We are reaching out to
authorized shoppers who have earned the commissary
benefit, but cannot easily travel to a local store
to shop on a regular basis. To learn about newly
announced sales, please check our Guard/Reserve
On-site Sales page periodically: www.commissaries.com/guard_reserve_sales.cfm.
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Commissary Connection keeps you connected with the
latest commissary news in digested format. If you'd
like more detail, get it directly from the source,
DeCA's official news releases and fact sheets: www.commissaries.com/news.cfm.
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Check out DeCA's Video Vault for interesting and
educational clips of commissary history, health and
wellness with DeCA Dietitian LT COL Karen Hawkins,
and commissary-related topics from A to Z: www.commissaries.com/media_center/index.cfm#vault. |
