Veterans Canteen Service (VCS)
In 1946, Veterans Canteen Service was established by law to provide comfort, health, and well-being to America’s Veterans, their families, caregivers, and VA and VHA employees. With our many retail stores, cafés and coffee shops across the country, we serve those who have served our country. Our Canteens are whole health spaces for Veterans to connect, relax, share and care for themselves in an environment that is their benefit. We are proud to Serve America’s Veterans and those who provide for their care.
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Veterans Canteen Service (VCS) is making National Nutrition Month, the monthlong health observance, a Be Well event with a Nutrition Powers Health bingo card. Once you complete your bingo card, turn it in to your local VCS PatriotCafé and receive a free side of vegetables or piece of whole fruit.
Bingo cards will be downloadable from the VCS website Nutrition and Whole Health page. To fill out your bingo card, complete the activities for five squares in a row, column, or diagonal. Activities include helpful VHA resources or health-related tasks, such as adding whole grains to a meal or taking 15-minute walks twice per day. The Nutrition and Whole Health webpage will feature more resources, including healthy recipes, chair yoga stretches, information on health programs, and more.
The VCS PatriotCafé will feature two Be Well food items for March: the roasted apple grilled cheese sandwich and berry-vanilla overnight oats. The roasted apple grilled cheese features mozzarella, fresh spinach, and vitamin-rich apples on multigrain bread. Berry-vanilla overnight oats are soaked overnight with milk and Greek yogurt for extra protein and calcium, available in quick service through SimplyToGo.
Look for more Whole Health specials and promotions throughout the month of March, including the following:
- March 2-6: A kitchen basket giveaway; enter for a chance to win on Facebook or Instagram.
- March 3: Celebrate Barista Day! Thank a PatriotBrew barista and receive two extra stamps for your Brew Rewards card.
- March 11–13: Karma Water buy one, get one free in the PatriotCafé and PatriotStore.
Follow the hashtags #NutritionMatters and #PowerYourHealth for more VCS promotions during National Nutrition Month.
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Veterans Canteen Service (VCS) is expanding PatriotStoreDirect online product offerings to include floral, jewelry, and gifts, plus expanded jewelry and vision items through new online shopping sites PatriotVision, powered by Lensabl, and PatriotJewels, powered by Delmar Jewelers.
VCS offer high-quality merchandise from national brands like Phillip’s Flowers, Glass Baron, Firestone, Goodyear, and more.
These new offerings give Veterans more options to shop with VCS in a convenient way. Customers can submit an order on the VCS website.
Through PatriotStoreDirect, VCS sells name-brand tires at tax-free, discounted pricing; prescription contact lenses; unique gifts; jewelry; floral arrangements; and much more exclusively to Veterans, their families, caregivers, and VA employees. VCS customer service is ready to help customers complete their orders.
VCS is offering floral arrangements and jewelry at 10% less than other national retailers. Gifts from Glass Baron, which include merchandise with official U.S. armed forces license, start as low as $15.
“We are excited to add these lines to our automotive tire and prescription contact lens services at PatriotStoreDirect,” said Lori Lee, chief services officer for VCS. “Our goal is to add value to the VCS benefit for Veterans and their families.”
Lee said PatriotStoreDirect plans to add more items for online order, including tools, automotive service, home goods, top-brand sporting goods, electronics, and toys.
“Look for PatriotStoreDirect and VCS to grow our services this year,” said Lee.
PatriotStoreDirect currently offers hundreds of items through their business lines:
Shop NowThe VCS PatriotStore is also expanding merchandise, offering more apparel for babies and toddler, as well as footwear for men and women. The PatriotStores, which offer essential items in comfortable retail spaces in VA medical centers across the U.S., are also expanding their assortment of value-priced essential apparel, such as T-shirts, jeans, and henley-style shirts for Veterans. This merchandise will provide more value and convenience for Veterans, especially those domiciled in the medical centers, to purchase comfortable new outfits.
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For Veterans and VA employees looking for exciting activities and trips this season, Veterans Canteen Service (VCS) is launching the online tickets and travel shopping benefit.
VCS offers member discounts and exclusive entertainment, and travel offers through a partnership with MemberDeals. This includes special offers, preferred seating, and tickets to top attractions, theme parks, shows, sporting events, hotels, rental cars, and more.
Ticket and travel orders are managed online through a customer-friendly interface. Users can choose from hundreds of options in entertainment, lodging, and travel, which are updated regularly. This benefit is available to Veterans enrolled in VA healthcare, their families, and VA employees.
“We are very happy to partner with MemberDeals to bring this experience to Veterans enrolled in VA healthcare, their families and caregivers, and VA employees,” said Lori Lee, VCS Chief Services Officer. “This was a popular feature for customers in the past, and I hope it will continue to bring enjoyment to the VA community going forward.”
The reintroduction of tickets and travel deals coincide with an expansion of service lines within PatriotStoreDirect. Now in its 30th year of selling tires, VCS PatriotStoreDirect is also selling jewelry, fashion items, outdoor and home merchandise, military apparel, flowers, special gifts, and more online at.
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