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Why do supermarkets have loyalty cards? (feddit.uk)
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Can't they just track everything you buy using your payment card?

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 5 points 6 days ago

These days I think it's so they can retain price sensitive consumers (cheap and/or poor people), while making the maximum profit from price insensitive consumers (dumb and/or rich people) who wont bother to use one so will pay full price.