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Woolworths scrambles to close loophole after shoppers register multiple cards to gain points (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 9 months ago by Ilovethebomb to c/offtopic

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Good on them, I hate these BS loyalty schemes, and typically avoid any store that offers them.

Milk it for all it's worth I say.

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[–] RecallMadness 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Kiwis seem to love a gimmick.

Countdown Lego? New World kitchenware? A myriad of power and mobile companies with “free hours” and other schemes?

And it’s all designed to give the illusion of savings for the customer.

[–] Dave 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I assumed all these gimmicks were based on similar things from overseas, because humans love a gimmick.

[–] RecallMadness 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There wasn’t much in the way of gimmicks in England. Most places seemed to be focussed on cutting expenditure via whatever exploitative or customer-negative ways so that they could shave another 10p off the price of a bag of carrots.

But, there was actual competition so 🤷‍♂️

[–] liv 4 points 9 months ago

Pretty sure Australia has a lot of the same stuff.

[–] Venator 2 points 9 months ago

NZ is the perfect guinea-pig market to test out gameification gimmicks before risking deploying them in a more important bigger market.