Re: Loyalty cards

["Brendan" <jbh@xxxxxxx>]

Keith,

You may be interested in a SmartCard-based Loyalty scheme run in Northern
Ireland.
Currently has (I believe) some 70-80,000 Card holders and 20+ separate
retailers, including some
big names.

When Mondex / VISA / other SmartCards become widespread, with secure
e.purse
files on the
one SmartCard and space for other scheme files (e.g. Loyalty) ....... bingo
!  ...... a single-card Smart wallet.

All coming soon .........

Bren H.



----Original Message-----
From: Keith Doxey <keith.doxey@xxxxxxx>
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx' <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Date: 25 August 1999 09:59
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Loyalty cards


>Damn, Damn, Damn :-((
>
>I hate loyalty cards,
>I always forget to take it with me when I go, if fact I dont even know
>where it is.
>My wallet doesnt have space for 14 trillion little plastic cards so I
cant
>carry them all (and NO - it isnt because its full of money). What
really
>gets up my nose is the fuss they make at the checkout when you have
dashed
>it there to get something you urgently need and waste even more of my
>already scarce time convincing me that I am seriously missing out by
not
>having that 4 pence added. I would rather the item cost 4p less in the
>first place and I could just nip in and out of the store with no
hassle.
>
>I also hate the fact that all stores now try and sell everything rather
>than there being specialist shops dedicated to a particular range of
>products.
>
>In my home town we used to have 3 specialist record shops where you
could
>by almost any record "off the shelf". Then everyone started
selling CD's,
>putting the specialist shops out of business, so now you can go into
almost
>any shop in town and buy a CD as long as its in the Top 20 :-((
>
>Last Christmas I went into WH Smith and they had more CD's than me by
>quantity (ie 50 of each title in the top 20 plus a handful of other
popular
>artists) but I probably had as many, if not more, different titles than
>they did.
>
>The dedicated hardware shops have gone to be replaced by the DIY
>superstores, again with lots of stock, but that little used bit of
>ironmongery that is needed worth about 20p will either be non existsnt
or
>sold in a little plastic bag for about 2 quid.
>
>Still....it is good to see X10 spreading. It might help the prices to
fall
>to more realistic levels, but lets hope they stock more than 3 or 4
types
>of modules. We want the whole range of stuff they have in the States.
>
>There....got that of my chest, I'll get off my soapbox and I'LL GET ME
COAT
>!!!!
>
>Keith Doxey
>http://www.btinternet.com/~krazy.keith
>Krazy Keith's World of DIY Home Automation
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: paul gordon [SMTP:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 9:26 AM
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Couple of FYI's
>
>Even better news is that, as a regular Homebase customer, with one of
their
>loyalty cards, I have also got ?50 worth of FREE homebase vouchers
stuck to
>my fridge door!! :-))
>
>So I'm going to get the transceiver module, 1 appliance module, and 1
radio
>remote for ?12....
>
>BTW, they normally extend their opening hours from 8PM to 10PM on these
>special 10% off days......
>
>Paul.
>
>
>
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