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Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners

TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

You don’t need an app to use a loyalty card…

But yes I am against supermarkets that only provide discounts if you use their loyalty program, which in turn allows them to track your purchases. Especially since many items are priced with the discount as the “fair” price and the full price is really just a money grab.

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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
This kinda shit is why I go to Aldi instead. They give everyone the same low prices. Tesco have their clubcard and seeing how much more they want to charge me for not having one puts me off ever going there on a regular basis.

Also under 18s can’t get these loyalty cards here so fuck you I guess you have to pay a load more.

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Photuris@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Man, I’m torn on this one.

We have two grocery stores in our exurban area.

Kroger, as a corporation, contributes to politicians of both US parties in roughly equal measure. Less than ideal (zero contributions), but not too bad I guess. But, they do have an obnoxious customer loyalty card program. Boo!

Publix, on the other hand, doesn’t have a customer loyalty card program at all. Yay! But, the corporation and their leadership contribute HEAVILY to the new Trumpy GOP, Matt Gaetz in particular. So, fuck them.

I’m boycotting Publix. Lesser of two evils I guess.

I really wish we had a locally-owned mom ’n pop grocery. I’d pay a premium for that.

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- Zak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Contributing to that Kinderficker changes my opinion of Publix.
  
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SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
If you do the calculation, the discount you get in the end is often just 1%. I don’t really care about that 1%. You can get more, but the time you have to invest to get a better deal makes less money than just work an extra hour.

And some of those loyalty programs have expiring points, that happen to expire just before you get to the tier when things get interesting. And when you do save up to the food stuff you find out the app is a lot better at collecting loyalty points and doesn’t work so great at exchanging them.

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- TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  The main thing this article is talking about is supermarkets in the UK that lock all their sale offers behind the loyalty card. Until about a year or two ago, you could go in and buy things on sale or buy one get one free or whatever offer, and then use (or don’t use) your loyalty card on top (to collect/spend points), but now you don’t get any discounts if you don’t have a loyalty card.
  
  The article/campaigners are spinning this up into something about smartphones, because that’s how most people use these loyalty schemes now, but they still have the old style cards so that’s a bit of a red herring. The real issue is the way they’re tying their standard offers to the loyalty program, and making it more difficult for consumers not to get caught out paying full price.
  
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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Same. We have two grocery stores nearby, both with loyalty programs. One requires using the program to get discounts, while the other doesn’t (you just miss out on points). Guess which I shop at…

If I need to go to the other one, I’ll use my parents’ number so they get the points. I go maybe once/year if there’s a particularly good deal.

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- grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Last time I went to a new-to-me grocery store that I didn’t have a loyalty card for, I just used [local area code]-867-5309. Jenny hasn’t failed me yet.
  
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