A mechanism or tactic · 1982 · Retail
The supermarket club
A discount card that identifies the household, tracks what it buys, and targets offers at what it has already bought.
The loyalty card joins the account to the person. Everything the field calls the attention economy was operational and profitable in supermarkets a decade before anybody named it.
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