Rogers Alerts brings location-based offers to customers

Rogers Alerts, a new location-based mobile solution that allows Rogers wireless customers to access personalized, location-based offers on their smartphone.

The Rogers Alerts platform is powered by technology from Placecast, a leading location-based marketing and loyalty solutions provider. It leverages geofencing technology, which will give retailers the ability to send a text message with personalized and timely offers to Rogers customers in close proximity to their retail locations. 

Rogers Alerts will be sent to Rogers subscribers who have signed up to receive offers at www.rogersalerts.ca.

To celebrate the launch, Rogers is offering $5 off one of their next two Rogers Wireless to wireless customers who text RALERTS to 5050, as long as their Rogers Alerts account remains active for 30 days. 

Who will offer deals, you might be wondering? Sears Canada, Future Shop, Pizza Hut Canada, A&W, Second Cup and Rogers Wireless are amongst the first retailers to take advantage of Rogers Alerts, the first of its kind in the Canadian