[Nfb-dc] Fwd: [Nfbnet-members-list] Santa delivers access to holiday shopping ads on NFB-NEWSLINE

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From: "White, Scott" <SWhite at nfb.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:06:42 -0600
Subject: [Nfbnet-members-list] Santa delivers access to holiday
shopping ads on NFB-NEWSLINE
To: nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org

November 27, 2013

Santa delivers access to holiday shopping ads on NFB-NEWSLINE

Take Your Holiday Gift Lists and Log on to NFB-NEWSLINE to Find Some
Holiday Shopping Deals!

As the snow starts to fall around some parts of the country, and the
holiday shopping season begins ever earlier and with more deals than
ever before, we here at NFB-NEWSLINE have been working to make the
shopping season more fun and affordable for you. We are pleased to
announce that now, for the first time, we have added sales deals and
information from a number of chain stores from around the country to
NFB-NEWSLINE in order to help you save some money during this buying
and giving time of the year.

We are pleased to inform you that there are now holiday sales
circulars from twelve chain stores on NFB-NEWSLINE on a temporary
basis, stores we have never listed before. We see great benefit in
providing this information to our subscribers; unfortunately this
effort is very manually intensive and we will be only able to offer
these newly added sales circulars on NFB-NEWSLINE until December 31,
2013. Sale circulars for Target, which have been on NFB-NEWSLINE
since July 2011, will continue to be offered with no service interruption.

The sales circulars of the additional twelve retailers come from
Albertsons, Best Buy, Giant Food, Home Depot, Kohls, Kroger, Publix,
Sears, Staples, Toys R Us, Walgreens, and Wal-Mart.

The newly added sales circulars are linked to the zip code of your
state sponsor and cannot be changed on an individual basis as can be
done with the Target sales circular. Therefore, the listing of the
ten closest stores for each one of the newly added sales circulars
may not be an exact listing of the closest ten stores to your
location. Please note that you may experience a slight discrepancy in
products and pricing being offered at your local store in comparison
with the circular being presented on NFB-NEWSLINE. We encourage our
subscribers to check with their local store to determine exact
product availability and pricing.

To access the new holiday sales circulars on the telephone portion of
NFB-NEWSLINE, go to the main menu to press the number five, which is
labeled, "To read newspapers in a different state." Next, press
option five, which is now labeled, "Holiday Shopping Advertisements"
and follow the prompts to select your favorite retailer.

Currently sales circulars are only available on the telephone portion
of NFB-NEWSLINE, iPhone users wishing to have the sales circulars
displayed on their device while shopping can login to the telephone
portion of NFB-NEWSLINE, find the retailer of their choice and then,
while listening to a section of interest, press the pound nine key
combination to have that section of the circular e-mailed to them.

We encourage all of you to contact us to let us know how you used
these new ads and whether you found them to be helpful. We would like
to make most of the weekly advertisements from all these stores
permanent, and we need your input. Your testimonials can help us
identify which store ads are most helpful and useful, and how we can
make them better. Please also let us know if you have contacts or
connections with any managerial level staff members at any of these
retailers so we can make an attempt to permanently carry their
circular on NFB-NEWSLINE. You can keep us informed by calling our
comment line at 410-505-5896 to leave us a voice message, or send an
e-mail to <mailto:nfbnewsline at nfb.org>nfbnewsline at nfb.org. We look
forward to hearing from you about how you use this new service, and
if you have suggestions, or have contacts with any of these
corporations for us.

To register to NFB-NEWSLINE or to learn more about the service,
please visit: <http://www.nfbnewsline.org>www.nfbnewsline.org, or
call us at 1-866-504-7300.

Thank you for using NFB-NEWSLINE and Happy Holidays to you all!

The NFB-NEWSLINE Team

Scott A. White
Director of Sponsored Technology Programs
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
200 East Wells Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21230
Telephone: (410) 659-9314, ext. 2231
Cell: 410-868-9519
Fax: (410) 685-5653
Email: <mailto:swhite at nfb.org>swhite at nfb.org



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