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Joeybear23
April 13th, 2009, 7:24 pm
http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUSTRE53C4V220090413

If other large hotel chains follow suit, this could be the end of USA Today...

Good riddance. I can tell you at least five USA Today papers hit my trash can each week. Now I know at least Marriott will stop delivering them.
PuckHappy
April 13th, 2009, 7:48 pm
A non union hotel doing something good for the environment!!
Who'd a thunk?
AutoRacer55
April 13th, 2009, 8:04 pm
Just get the app for ipod touch. Pretty nifty.
ThrowCop
April 13th, 2009, 8:21 pm
I do like reading it during my Continental breakfast at the Country Inn & Suites...
PuckHappy
April 13th, 2009, 10:22 pm
Just get the app for ipod touch. Pretty nifty.

Oh I down loaded the TMZ app. Much more educational, oops, I mean entertaining!:))
Oddball
April 14th, 2009, 1:10 am
A non union hotel doing something good for the environment!!
Who'd a thunk?
They're not doing it for the environment, they're doing it to cut costs.

And at a lot (if not all) of Mariott's hotels that serve complementary breakfast, the newspapers are to be had in the service areas anyways.

Marrriott is more interested the the PR angle here than anything else.
AutoRacer55
April 14th, 2009, 1:15 am
Oh I down loaded the TMZ app. Much more educational, oops, I mean entertaining!:))

Celebrity "News" is the bane of my existence.
2Parties1GlobalistGoal
April 14th, 2009, 1:18 am
Marrriott is more interested the the PR angle here than anything else.

Oddball with the cynical (but true) post...
EmmanuelGoldstein
April 14th, 2009, 1:21 am
Why would you want a US company to fail?

You cons are a strange bunch.
PuckHappy
April 14th, 2009, 3:26 am
They're not doing it for the environment, they're doing it to cut costs.

And at a lot (if not all) of Mariott's hotels that serve complementary breakfast, the newspapers are to be had in the service areas anyways.

Marrriott is more interested the the PR angle here than anything else.

Um, did you read the article?

Marriott's move may hurt the newspaper business, but the company expects it will be good for the environment -- something that many corporations are touting to gain a competitive edge and show their commitment to a "greener" world.

AND

As for its own cost savings, they are not material, Hampton said. She said Marriott pays far less than the cover price for its newspapers because of the numbers it buys companywide. "However, since the quantity went down, the cost per paper went up.

The Residence Inn and Fairfield Inn are the only Marriott brands that serve a complimentary breakfast. The Courtyards and Full Service hotels do not have the comp breakfast.
zerk
April 14th, 2009, 3:41 am
News = baaaaaaaaaaad.
MrShotShot
April 14th, 2009, 5:33 am
Why would you want a US company to fail?

You cons are a strange bunch.

Do libs feel the same about Blackwater and Halliburton?
EmmanuelGoldstein
April 14th, 2009, 11:49 am
Do libs feel the same about Blackwater and Halliburton?
I don't recall ever wishing them to fail.
Oddball
April 14th, 2009, 12:01 pm
Um, did you read the article?



AND



The Residence Inn and Fairfield Inn are the only Marriott brands that serve a complimentary breakfast. The Courtyards and Full Service hotels do not have the comp breakfast.
That Mariott mentioned that they expect this move to be good for the environment is plain old PR.

BTW....Do you know which hotel chain has the tightest, most frequent, and landfill filling-uppiest room remodeling specs of them all??

That's right......Mariott.
birddog1
April 14th, 2009, 5:18 pm
Um, did you read the article?



AND



The Residence Inn and Fairfield Inn are the only Marriott brands that serve a complimentary breakfast. The Courtyards and Full Service hotels do not have the comp breakfast.

Do you believe every bit of PR that companies put out there no matter how unbelievable it is?
GA_LP
April 14th, 2009, 6:10 pm
Why would you want a US company to fail?

You cons are a strange bunch.
USA Today is owned by Gannett Newspapers and they own many other papers. If USA fails, they won't go out of business.
Joeybear23
April 14th, 2009, 7:15 pm
Why would you want a US company to fail?

You cons are a strange bunch.

Unlike the bailout monkeys, I have no desire to artificially resuscitate failures.
zerk
April 14th, 2009, 9:05 pm
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=64525678&albumID=931302&imageID=21582915


the article when the founder of USAToday interviewed me.