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]]> By: Dan Baker http://www.erica.biz/2009/loyalty-card-schemes/#comment-141599 Dan Baker Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:27:11 +0000 http://www.erica.biz/?p=1899#comment-141599 Loyalty cards just encourage shopping at high priced stores!. Walmart doesn't use them, neither does ALDI. in fact it cost companies to operate the cards through database maintenance, IT people, advertising, and printing the cards! Loyalty cards just encourage shopping at high priced stores!. Walmart doesn’t use them, neither does ALDI. in fact it cost companies to operate the cards through database maintenance, IT people, advertising, and printing the cards!

]]> By: b w http://www.erica.biz/2009/loyalty-card-schemes/#comment-117544 b w Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:48:24 +0000 http://www.erica.biz/?p=1899#comment-117544 I just want to point out a truism that's never wrong. There aint no such thing as a free lunch. The goal of loyalty promotion programs is to confuse the consumer and make it more difficult to price compare.. period. The collection of personal information for sale is secondary, and for many businesses that money is actually collected by the third party who manages the loyalty promotion program. I've been involved in the software side of these programs for over a decade... I just want to point out a truism that’s never wrong. There aint no such thing as a free lunch.

The goal of loyalty promotion programs is to confuse the consumer and make it more difficult to price compare.. period. The collection of personal information for sale is secondary, and for many businesses that money is actually collected by the third party who manages the loyalty promotion program.

I’ve been involved in the software side of these programs for over a decade…

]]> By: A http://www.erica.biz/2009/loyalty-card-schemes/#comment-3128 A Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:35:56 +0000 http://www.erica.biz/?p=1899#comment-3128 Larry may sound paranoid but it's true. Both Safeway and Vons have been involved in lawsuits and mediation where they were known to be reviewing their customers purchase records and trying to claim that the customers "bought a lot of alcohol" in an attempt to try to shame the person away from suing or to discredit their case. Everytime I go into Safeway the liquor section is HUGE and growing and they seem to be running more liquor ads in my area. Talk about being hypocritical! Larry may sound paranoid but it’s true.

Both Safeway and Vons have been involved in lawsuits and mediation where they were known to be reviewing their customers purchase records and trying to claim that the customers “bought a lot of alcohol” in an attempt to try to shame the person away from suing or to discredit their case.

Everytime I go into Safeway the liquor section is HUGE and growing and they seem to be running more liquor ads in my area. Talk about being hypocritical!

]]> By: Sabine http://www.erica.biz/2009/loyalty-card-schemes/#comment-2883 Sabine Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:32:51 +0000 http://www.erica.biz/?p=1899#comment-2883 Hello Erica my answer to this is to have a loyalty card for every shop in my area and every shop near my work and on the commute to and from work. My Credit Card wallet looks a mess (no CC cards in there though), but I end up shopping where it is either most convenient or cheapest. I don't tend to collect too many points on any of the cards, but I just use them as an added bonus, as the stuff would have cost me the same if I wouldn't have used them. The only problem is when we are moving house - what a nightmare to change addresses on all these card. And the companies they sell the information to ? Well, they must be sick of my name by now, lol. I must be appearing in every single list of theirs. If it stops Viagra adverts hitting my e-mail-box and instead tells me where I can get the cheapest Diet Coke this week (fellow addict here), I happily give this inormation away - although I am not getting my hopes up ;-) Have a nice day Hello Erica

my answer to this is to have a loyalty card for every shop in my area and every shop near my work and on the commute to and from work. My Credit Card wallet looks a mess (no CC cards in there though), but I end up shopping where it is either most convenient or cheapest. I don’t tend to collect too many points on any of the cards, but I just use them as an added bonus, as the stuff would have cost me the same if I wouldn’t have used them. The only problem is when we are moving house – what a nightmare to change addresses on all these card. And the companies they sell the information to ? Well, they must be sick of my name by now, lol. I must be appearing in every single list of theirs. If it stops Viagra adverts hitting my e-mail-box and instead tells me where I can get the cheapest Diet Coke this week (fellow addict here), I happily give this inormation away – although I am not getting my hopes up ;-)

Have a nice day

]]> By: Mike http://www.erica.biz/2009/loyalty-card-schemes/#comment-2470 Mike Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:29:18 +0000 http://www.erica.biz/?p=1899#comment-2470 the card programs arent there to save you money, they are there to make the retail chains more money. you know there can be no other reason. other factors you should consider, read up on http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/loyalty_cards.html http://www.nocards.org/ the card programs arent there to save you money, they are there to make the retail chains more money. you know there can be no other reason.

other factors you should consider, read up on

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/loyalty_cards.html

http://www.nocards.org/

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