Virgin Mobile USA Launches a New Way to Shop and Save With Slifter
Today, Slifter, a popular mobile shopping tool that employs LBS technology to search and share products and promotions at neighboring retail locations, announced its partnership with Virgin Mobile USA, a leading provider of wireless service without contracts. Now, Virgin Mobile USA's five million customers can shop smart and fast by searching over 300 million products at more than 150,000 local and online retailers, seeing price and availability, and getting detailed directions to the nearest store.
As the leader in local mobile shopping, Slifter allows users to: find hot deals and products nearby, create a mobile shopping list packed with favorite products and promotions, and spread the savings around to friends and family.
"Virgin Mobile USA is excited to bring another great solution to our members. We think that the Slifter site is amongst the best mobile shopping experiences available today. Its a blending together of search and location information that really gives our members an advantage in finding the products they want, at the right price, at the most convenient retail location, said Wes Radez, Director of Mobile Content, Virgin Mobile USA.
"Slifter and Virgin Mobile USA are giving consumers the ability to hold on to their dollars, by saving on products and even gas," said Alex Muller, CEO of Slifter. "Slifter allows the user to search by price or distance, allowing the customer to find the product they need at the location they want - without breaking the bank."
Slifter is immediately available on all Virgin Mobile USA phones at no additional charge on VirginXL and the mobile Web.
About Slifter
New York City-based Slifter, is a popular mobile shopping tool that enables millions of mobile users to search and share products and promotions, straight from their cell phones. It is accessible for free via, wireless web, or java application on almost any mobile device. For more information on Slifter, please visit www.slifter.com.
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VM 1.12, -0.04, -3.4%) , through its operating company Virgin Mobile USA, L.P., offers more than five million customers control, flexibility and choice through Virgin Mobile's Plans Without Annual Contracts and postpaid offerings through Helio By Virgin Mobile, with national coverage for both powered by the Sprint PCS network.
Virgin Mobile USA is known for its award-winning customer service, and 90% of its own customers report satisfaction with its service. Virgin Mobile USA allows customers to earn free minutes in exchange for viewing advertising content online through the innovative Sugar Mama program. Virgin Mobile USA's full slate of smart, stylish and affordable handsets are available at approximately 40,000 top retailers nationwide and online at http://www.virginmobileusa.com/, with Top-Up cards available at more than 140,000 locations. Helio's advanced devices like the Ocean and unlimited All-in voice plans can be explored at http://www.helio.com/.
