{"id":55284,"date":"2019-01-07T08:15:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T13:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=55284"},"modified":"2019-08-22T09:28:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T13:28:18","slug":"campus-store-pilots-textbook-price-matching-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/01\/campus-store-pilots-textbook-price-matching-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Store pilots textbook price-matching program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Brock University Campus Store is price matching textbooks with <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.ca\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon.ca<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> until Jan. 18.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The initiative, available for Winter Term courses, aims to continue to improve textbook affordability for students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur goal is to ensure that students have the tools they need to succeed in the classroom,\u201d says Janet Jamison, Associate Director of the Campus Store. \u201cOur advantage is the convenience of purchasing the book right on campus, so students who typically shop on Amazon.ca do not have to wait for the book to arrive in the mail.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pilot project will provide a baseline for what a price-match program could look like for the September back-to-school rush.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Price matching is done in person at the Campus Store, located in the Plaza Building. The store will also be operating extended hours, open until 10:30 p.m., to accommodate students who have evening classes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a full list of price-match rules, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/campusstore.brocku.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campusstore.brocku.ca<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock University Campus Store is price matching textbooks with Amazon.ca until Jan. 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":55291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[6354,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55284"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59764,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55284\/revisions\/59764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}