If your co-op offers the Touchstone Energy Co-op Connections card program, and you’re not using it, you could be losing out on big savings. Co-op Connections offers co-op members product and service discounts at participating retail businesses. In turn, participating businesses benefit from increased customer traffic, and from promotions in co-op communications and advertising materials.
If your co-op offers the program, log on at www.connections.coop to see a roster of participating businesses, including local institutions and national corporations, such as rental car companies and hotels. Currently, 507 co-ops in 46 states participate in the program. More than 32,000 local and national business offerings are available to cardholders.
Since 2007, Co-op Connections cardholders across the country have saved nearly $98 million on prescription drugs. In Illinois, the total savings is nearly $2.3 million. And, cardholders can save on dental, vision, hearing and chiropractic services through vendors such as Coast to Coast Vision, Humana Dental Access, UHS Chiropractic and Newport Audiology.
Through the Co-op Connections’ Cash Back Mall, cardholders can earn cash back on purchases from more than 3,000 leading online merchants.
Call your local Touchstone Energy cooperative to see it participates in Co-op Connections, and if so, how you can get a card and start saving today. 
