Military Exchanges

 

The Exchange is a retail store, typically set up like a department store or strip mall with smaller shops and service vendors nearby. You'll find an exchange on many installations. Some include uniform shops, barbershops, laundry and dry cleaning, gas stations and convenience stores, fast food outlets, and lawn and garden shops.

Tax-free shopping is authorized at the exchange if you're in one of these groups:

• Uniformed-service members (active, reserve or retired)
• Active DOD and Coast Guard appropriated fund and non-appropriated civilian employees in the United States and the U.S. territories and possessions
• Medal of Honor recipients
  
• Honorably-discharged veterans with 100 percent service-connected disability
  
• Department of Defense civilian employees stationed outside the United States
  
• Authorized family members
  
• National Guard members not in federal status
  
• Military members of foreign nations

*Retired DoD and Coast Guard civilian employees will have access to online exchange shopping later this year.

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Each service has a different name for its exchange. Start shopping your service's exchange website (yes, you can shop online), or use the store locators listed below.

 

• Army and Air Force Exchange: Shop My Exchange and AAFES store locator 
  
• Marine Corps Exchange or MCX: My MCX and MCX store locator 
  
• Navy Exchange Service Command or NEX: My Navy Exchange and NEX store locator
  
• Coast Guard Exchange or CGX: CGX and CGX store locator