BOCA RATON, Fla., Jun 11, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE) — For the very first time, local merchants and business can stand up to big box stores and monster retailers and fight back!

Before now, small merchants have had to fight big advertising budgets, internet activity, mobile apps, and social media, making it almost impossible to compete with the giants. While a small percentage of smaller merchants can find some of the tools they need to stay in the game, they haven’t been able to find them in a single place, and at an affordable price…but Local Thanks has changed all that.

“These service organizations have direct relationships with merchants, and offering these tools solidifies their relationships with merchants while giving them a substantial passive revenue.”

The new Local Thanks program is the answer, with a marketing platform that gives local merchants everything they need to compete, including website, shopping, mobile app, email, text and push messages, and a very exciting rewards program.

Local merchants have one advantage — they can offer more personalized service in a more customer friendly shopping atmosphere, but they need the means to communicate these important benefits directly to those customers, at a cost merchants can afford.

When they use Local Thanks, each merchant can customize their own special in-store offers, cash back rewards, bonus point catalogs, and more.

Martin Berns, CEO of the Company, explained that, “we know what merchants want and need, but we also know that they are blocked by two things – time and money. So we have an all-inclusive package for less than the cost of a daily cup of coffee and we do all the work.”

Mr. Berns went on to explain that the Company is marketing its program through merchant service providers who may already supply merchants with credit card processing, websites, local newspapers, as well as local Chambrs of Commerce. He added that, “these service organizations have direct relationships with merchants, and offering these tools solidifies their relationships with merchants while giving them a substantial passive revenue.”

The Company has agreements with clients who can bring millions of potential neighborhood shoppers into the program.

ABOUT LOCAL THANKS

Local Thanks (www.merchant.localthanks.com) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Loyalty Superstore (www.loyaltysuperstore.com), whose management has decades of successful experience in creating incentive, loyalty and rewards programs, as well as web based shopping mall platforms.

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