Do you enjoy online shopping?
If so, Blue Star Families has a new perk just for you.
This month the military family support organization launched a new, members-only, online shopping platform. Blue Star Deals is open only to military members, their spouses and children. The site requires only a name and email address for registration.
Tabs in the online portal divide shopping into wellness, financial, travel, hotels, car rentals, tickets, electronics and other general categories.
Unlike shopping at AAFES.com or Amazon where you search by product, here you search by vendor. For example, the electronics tab offers four links: hp, Dell, extended service plans and EZ Pay. The individual tabs indicate the percentage off sticker price you can expect to receive.
Some of the links take you to other discount sites, such as priceline.com. Savvy online shoppers will easily be able to pick out what deals here are similar, or the same as they would be if you simply visited another site, such as priceline.com.
And, with many military family sites such as AAFES and USAA already offering discounts to partner sites, some of the offers here look and feel similar.
However, there are some gems hidden in the tabs.
A 10-month magazine subscription can be had for $2. There are discounts here for pet insurance plans. If you PCS with Fido, you know that is worth its weight in gold. There is a grocery coupon section with decent $1 and $2 off coupons for stuff you actually use like toothpaste and Ziploc bags. There are also discounts for financial services such as LifeLock and legalzoom.com
The field to deliver discounted services to military families is crowded. And not all the deals are worth the paper you print them on. But Blue Star Families’ new Blue Star Deals page is worth checking out.
Visit it at: https://bluestarfam.org/bluestardeals/