I have a love/hate relationship with supermarket loyalty cards – I hate them, they love me. The whole “Big-Brother” aspect bugs me. I call them the “We Hate Our Customers” cards. Just give me a good price on your stuff, let me give you money for it, and we’ll both get on with our lives.
So, in order to find some satisfaction within this irritating system, I accessed our supermarket card account online and made a few changes:
Now, when I check out, the supermarket cashier reads my receipt and says “Have a nice day, Mr. Wondrous.” I like it – it feels good inside.
My EC is less pleased when she checks out and the cashier asks “Would you like some help out, Mrs. Overspend?”
Probably need to change things back. My EC isn’t too happy, and I’m nervous about that nagging honesty question in my next recommend interview.
Even if I change the loyalty card, I am not going to change my restaurant waiting name. “Table ready for Manson, Charles Manson.”
I love loyalty cards! We collect the points fanatically and have been to Majorca on them, had free breakdown cover, cinema tickets, all sorts. My eldest daughter now has a part-time job in a supermarket that doesn’t have a loyalty scheme, so now we have to shop there. I’m actually a bit miffed, despite the fact that we now have a 10% staff discount card.
Hahaha! This makes me think of a story my husband tells. One of his closest friends growing up was named Christian Smoker. He did not go by Chris, he was always Christian. They went out to bowl one night and asked for him to be paged and the employees refused to do it and got really angry at them.
The bar code on the affinity cards is standard UPC. Many graphics programs will print these, automatically computing the final check-digit.
Take your number, alter the 1000’s digit by one or two (ignoring the final check digit), and print a new one. Then, alter the one’s digit, and print again. Print a 100, or a thousand. Print 20 or so on a page. Cut them up into individual bar codes.
Use one once or twice, throw it away, then use another.
I love it when they say, “Thanks you Mrs. R, you saved 27 cents today.” Really? a whole 27 cents..i gotta come back to this store!!!
What ever happened to “We’d like to welcome, Butts, Mr. Seymour Butts, your table is ready”?