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DISCOUNT
COFFEE NEWS
Reprinted
October 1998
Lower Coffee
Prices Brewing
(ST.
LOUIS, MO) Guaranteed lowest coffee prices on the Internet and up to
55% overall savings are being discovered today by small businesses doing
their coffee and home office supply purchasing via the Internet.
Discount Coffee .com
is brewing these huge savings with this newest
"click of the mouse technology" in ordering break room supplies.
Small businesses and home offices are adding profits to their bottom line
by saving $100's of dollars that they would have been spent the old
fashion way.
Cherri Huffman, Discount
Coffee's Operations Director, claims,
"We've added value, speed, convenience, and customer control to the
Office Coffee environment through the efficiencies of secured
e-commerce."
Up
To 55% Savings
Discount
Coffee .com
offers
small businesses everything from Folgers and Starbucks
Coffee to break room supplies like paper towels, hot chocolates and
microwave popcorn at up to a 55% savings compared to traditional Office
Coffee Services and Food Services.
This Missouri based (ICS) Internet Coffee Service
brings to the table more product offerings than have been available in the
past from more traditional (OCS) Office Coffee Services.
Discount Coffee's catalog
features over 100 coffees and break room supplies.
Industry analysts and customers have
criticized local coffee services for years in not having a more diverse
product line. "Since we sell right off the truck, we're
limited on space and can't carry as many items." explained
Iowa's Prestige Coffee Service owner, Paul Gordon.
White
Glove "Service"?
Huffman, is quick to point out that within traditional OCS, local
coffee services initially promise businesses great "white glove
service" to get in the door. After the sale is made, many
customers question and quickly wonder where that "promised
service" has gone.
Michael Waldheuser, owner of The Lodge Bed &
Breakfast in Wisconsin said, "With our old coffee service we
were always running out of coffee. They never came on their regular
service day of the month and it seemed like there was constantly a new
route person that we had to retrain on where things were stored."
He continued, "Now, we can order anytime and as often
as we want from Discount Coffee.
They've eliminated the frustrations that we used to have to live with
because we had nobody else in this area to service us."
Why Pay More?
Discount Coffee's CEO,
Kirby Newbury says that many traditional coffee services charge $25
to $50 for a case of coffee. These prices are necessary due to the
high overhead local coffee services incur in order to stop a truck and
service an account, especially in rural areas. He adds,
"Discount Coffee goes
everywhere by shipping UPS more cost effectively than
the old coffee route system. Those are big savings we can pass on to
our customers."
Most of the time a customer's coffee pots get
cleaned by someone in the office and not by the typical once a month
coffee service delivery person ...so many businesses today are questioning
why they are paying for service that their not getting.
Arthur Rosenberg, a California attorney, asked,
"Why pay $35 for a case of Folgers just to have someone come
out once a month to deliver my product and change my coffee pots?"
He suggested, "If we can clean our own pots, so can you--especially
when you're saving money like the $400 we'll save this year shopping with
Discount Coffee."
Sales Tax FREE
Sales tax you're currently paying can be new money on your
bottom line. Internet purchases from Discount
Coffee are Sales Tax FREE, except
in Missouri. Alonzo
MacDonald, station manager of New York's WSLQ Radio noted,
"When we put pencil to paper, we found that the Sales Tax savings far
out weighed the minor shipping charges involved and put added revenue on
our bottom line."
Guaranteed
Same Day Shipping
Mary
Thomas, Discount Coffee's Customer
Care Representative mentioned, "When a customer places an order by 12:30
(EST) we guarantee shipping the same day."
FREE Shipping
Thomas added, "Customers can
select what shipping method they prefer." Customers
receive FREE UPS Ground Shipping on orders over $50 within the contiguous United States. All other orders are shipped via
dependable UPS Ground and Priority Mail. For faster
delivery, UPS Next Day Air and UPS 2nd Day Air and 3 Day Select are
also available.
Discount Coffee
is unique, compared to other internet coffee sites,
by offering international shipments. Discount
Coffee ships U.S. Priority Mail to U.S. Territories, Alaska and Hawaii customers.
Newbury said, "In this global
Internet market we are pioneering the Office Coffee Service Industry to a
whole new level".
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