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Marriott makes newspapers optional for guests
Yahoo news ^ | Robert MacMillan and Deepa Seetharaman

Posted on 04/14/2009 5:19:57 AM PDT by prismsinc

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1 posted on 04/14/2009 5:19:57 AM PDT by prismsinc
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To: prismsinc

Marriot is very environmentally friendly (or should we say: finding ways to cut costs pitched as environmentally friendly?). You have to throw your towels on the floor to get clean ones in bathrooms where towels never dry because the vent fans are either disabled or nonexistent...


2 posted on 04/14/2009 5:24:28 AM PDT by TaxRelief (Walmart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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Typical sequence of events for a USA Today when I find it outside my hotel room door. Pick up paper and briefly glance at headlines, place paper on desk. Do whatever I am doing for the day. In the evening move paper to the wastebasket to make way for the next day’s paper.

I will spend some time with the WSJ if it shows up.


3 posted on 04/14/2009 5:28:23 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo (Earth - Taking care of itself since 4.6 billion BC)
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When checking into Hampton Inn, for example, you can already check a box to receive no USA Today and get 75 cents off each day on your bill. (Hampton Inn’s fine print is in upper right, IIRC.)

I always do this, but the staff often don’t even realize that box is there, leading me to believe that many others aren’t already taking advantage of the chance to keep money instead of giving it to Gannett!


4 posted on 04/14/2009 5:33:17 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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I stay at the Marriott quite a bit and am a Silver Elite member and have been signed up for the WSJ for three years and have NEVER gotten the damned thing. They ask you what paper you’d like and then ignore your choice. Every morning it’s USA Today. I’ve stopped picking it up and throwing it away, I now just step over it in the morning.


5 posted on 04/14/2009 5:39:26 AM PDT by pgkdan ( I miss Ronald Reagan!)
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To: prismsinc; george76; abb; Milhous; BOBTHENAILER

Since the Clintoon days, I have informed the front desk of any motel, hotel, inn, lodge, or resort as I check in two things:

A. I don’t want USA LIES TODAY.

B. I want the cost of the fishwrap deducted from my bill as I know it isn’t free.


6 posted on 04/14/2009 5:57:28 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does 0B0Z0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foreign/domestic terrorists, or tax cheats?)
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To: prismsinc

The USA Today, America’s most SHALLOW paper, is good to have, in case the toilet paper runs out!


7 posted on 04/14/2009 5:58:45 AM PDT by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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To: TaxRelief
Last weekend I stayed in Palomar LA.Same policy about the towels.When I asked person at the front desk why no coffeemakers in the room, his response was “you have to ask for one”.Regarding newspapers,only few at the front desk.Next logical step-we have to ask for toilet paper:-)))
8 posted on 04/14/2009 6:02:15 AM PDT by QQQQ
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Typical sequence of events for a USA Today

The Friday Sports Section isn't bad during football season.

ML/NJ

9 posted on 04/14/2009 6:07:59 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: prismsinc

A better option for hotels, that might even help their bottom line while improving their business atmosphere, is already being done to some extent in high volume medical waiting rooms.

It is a wide screen TV with a looping morning news and information program and live feed on it. Those I’ve seen use the Reuters news feed.

Thus, the hotel chain could set up a small TV studio to record its chain wide broadcasts, then torrent them to all their franchises late at night for the next day.

The idea would be to encourage people to leave their rooms and come to the hotels lounge and restaurant for breakfast, yet get higher quality news than they could get on their room television.

The chain might even hire a news web-surfer to find news not carried by the news wires or major news sources, then plug in a headline and a web link.


10 posted on 04/14/2009 6:19:40 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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Another contribution to the MSM/Dinosaur death watch!


11 posted on 04/14/2009 6:19:58 AM PDT by TMA62 (TMA62)
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Yeah, all that, or people could just use the wireless internet in their rooms if they were that worried about news.


12 posted on 04/14/2009 6:56:28 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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Good news.

50,000 copies daily, or 18 million annually.

would affect USA Today more than any other paper.


13 posted on 04/14/2009 7:04:07 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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I want the cost of the fishwrap deducted from my bill as I know it isn’t free.

Do they oblige?

14 posted on 04/14/2009 7:07:51 AM PDT by stevio (Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
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To: prismsinc

Thank God Marriot is taking steps to put that paper out of business. USA Today is one of the most blatantly left-wing papers I have read. And reading the thing only requires maybe a grade level above the Weekly Reader.


15 posted on 04/14/2009 7:13:01 AM PDT by Fast Ed97
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About 50% of the hotels/motels will deduct 25 cents to 50 cents per day.


16 posted on 04/14/2009 7:16:29 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does 0B0Z0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foreign/domestic terrorists, or tax cheats?)
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To: stevio; Gondring

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2228686/posts?page=4#4

When checking into Hampton Inn, for example, you can already check a box to receive no USA Today and get 75 cents off each day on your bill. (Hampton Inn’s fine print is in upper right, IIRC.)

I always do this, but the staff often don’t even realize that box is there, leading me to believe that many others aren’t already taking advantage of the chance to keep money instead of giving it to Gannett!

4 posted on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 5:33:17 AM by Gondring


17 posted on 04/14/2009 7:20:08 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does 0B0Z0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foreign/domestic terrorists, or tax cheats?)
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Hmmm. If anything, it hassles them a little for carrying these liberal rags. I’ll remember this. Thanks.


18 posted on 04/14/2009 7:21:39 AM PDT by stevio (Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
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“Hmmm. If anything, it hassles them a little for carrying these liberal rags. I’ll remember this. Thanks!”

My wife doesn’t want to go in for the check ins for that reason and my usual haggling re a reduction in price is the parking lot is basically empty.


19 posted on 04/14/2009 7:29:03 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does 0B0Z0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foreign/domestic terrorists, or tax cheats?)
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Save a tree. Say bu-bye to the New York Times and LA Times.
Who cares?

All news fit to read is on the Internet (right here on FReeper) or Fox News. Anything else is old hat.

20 posted on 04/14/2009 7:42:12 AM PDT by NoRedTape
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