Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#1
I read that Stroud DC has launched a new loyalty card scheme for shoppers in an attempt to encourage local trade. So far the card has attracted 80 businesses. Cllr Roger Sanders commented: "Kitchen shops, a DIY store, restaurants, hotels, bookshops and an optician have joined the scheme".
The initiative follows a similar scheme which has been introduced in Swindon and Nailsea - although offering the card to a whole district is believed to be a first.
No I'm not thinking of starting Dover's Loyalty Scheme up again, but if it had been given Town and District support, it may have been still going and many shops may not have closed. A number of shops now have their own Loyalty Scheme, so the concept was a good one and many towns around the country and London Boroughs, called me to ask about it, even after I had ceased running it.
Roger
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#2
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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#3
I'm a member of a couple of loyalty schemes run by local traders, theres nothing to stop them running them.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#4
innovative lot down at stroud, a few years back they stared to charge for using the public toilets and recouped enough money to make them self financing and in better condition.
80% of the income was from people passing through - no pun intended.