I was
shopping for groceries this afternoon. I went to Spar to but for flavored
water; I needed to stock up for my preferred drink. Got to the this till and
the lady asked me if I had a Spar rewards card – in south Africa this is a card
supermarkets use to incentivize customers for sopping on their shop – my response
way - nope **smiling**.
I don’t have
any supermarket rewards card because to me this is like an old way of
collecting coupons. You buy for Rand’s and you get points to spend on your next
purchase. This is the same as a R0.50c off coupon; the catch though is you have
to spend more than R100 to get around R0.50c. Don’t get me wrong, I commend the
this product; they ensure consumers keep on coming back to their shop to spend
money for the consumer to accumulate more points so they can buy something of
value tomorrow.
Anyway, I don’t
see any value in these consumer reward systems. You can have a different opinion
on this, that ok. I just don’t see how this will help me, on the other and these
companies are making more whenever I buy from them with a hope of getting points
back.
This brings
me to the question that came up just before I got to write this post. Why would
people prefer to spend R1000 and get something like 10 points back?
Big question
my friend…. It doesn’t make any sense – right? To me for sure, it doesn’t
We’re so
conditioned to believe that network marketing is a rip off but we fail to see
that this is a 21st century business that can help us to make a nice life living.
Join the
movement, let’s change our lives from today
-disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with any companies mentioned in this post or associated with them. The views contained in this post are my individual opinion.