{"id":83413,"date":"2017-01-14T08:20:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T13:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=83413"},"modified":"2017-01-14T08:21:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T13:21:32","slug":"feds-offering-online-shopping-to-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/01\/14\/feds-offering-online-shopping-to-vets\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds offering online shopping to vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; The U.S. Defense Department announced on Friday that veterans will be able to shop online at military exchanges by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The policy change will extend limited online military exchange shopping privileges to all honorably discharged veterans of the military, DoD officials said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The shopping benefit will be effective this Veterans Day, November 11.<\/p>\n<p>While shopping privileges exclude the purchase of uniforms, alcohol, and tobacco products, it includes the Exchange Services\u2019 dynamic online retail environment known so well to service members and their families. The change follows careful analysis, coordination and strong public support, officials said in the release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to provide these benefits to honorably discharged veterans to recognize their service and welcome them home to their military family,\u201d said Peter Levine, performing the duties for the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition, this initiative represents a low-risk, low-cost opportunity to help fund morale, welfare, and recreation programs in support of service members\u2019 and their families\u2019 quality of life. And it\u2019s just the right thing to do,\u201d Levine added.<\/p>\n<p>The online benefit will also strengthen the exchanges\u2019 online businesses to better serve current patrons. Inclusion of honorably discharged veterans would conservatively double the exchanges\u2019 online presence, according to DoD officials, thereby improving the experience for all patrons through improved vendor terms, more competitive merchandise assortments and improved efficiencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a nation, we are grateful for the contributions of our service members,\u201d Levine said. \u201cOffering this lifetime online benefit is one small, tangible way the nation can say, \u2018Thank you\u2019 to those who served with honor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; The U.S. Defense Department announced on Friday that veterans will be able to shop online at military exchanges by the end of the year. The policy change will extend limited online military exchange shopping privileges to all honorably discharged veterans of the military, DoD officials said in a news release. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 16:15:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}