If You're A Veteran, Shop Like One

Or a First Responder, Active Military, Nurse

Companies have offered discounts for veterans, active military, first responders, nurses, and doctors for a long time. And for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it is because one of those categories of customers is their primary market. Sometimes it is to capture additional customers. And sometimes it is just to demonstrate that they care about this group of people. Whatever the reason, those of us in these categories like getting a discount, especially considering that many of us don’t make princely sums of money.

It used to be pretty difficult to get your veteran discount, not too hard to get your military (active or retired) discount. As far as first responders and nurses, I really don’t know but I imagine that if you were uniform it was easy. Especially at the donut shops ;-)

Anyhow, these days, getting that discount is very easy if you shop online. Especially if you avoid Amazon, which doesn’t offer any sort of military/first responder/nurse discounts. They capture your spending via…