Quote from: SEWIGuy on Today at 03:18:17 PMWhat do you have against supermarket loyalty programs?
Quote from: SEWIGuy on Today at 03:18:17 PMAnyway, I am with you until the last point. Why should the store have to redeem the card for cash?
Quote from: SEWIGuy on Today at 04:09:05 PMSo because someone bought a bad gift, a card to "a place they aren't interested in shopping at", the store is now responsible for making it right? People get bad gifts for one another all of the time.
Quote from: vdeane on Today at 03:39:47 PMWhat if the person has a gift card for a place they aren't interested in shopping at? Or wants to change grocery stores without leaving a rewards balance (essentially impossible where I shop, as you can't redeem and earn points in the same transaction).
Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on April 24, 2024, 01:56:44 PMI think that's actually pretty neat. It's funded by Cavenue, not taxes, and regular cars can still use the lane (except for dedicated testing times, which, as noted in the video, only happens when the loss of the third lane isn't an issue). It's also now a unique little stretch of freeway which is cool to see.
Cavnue: We want to test out some automated car stuff on a public roadway.
MDOT: Wanna take a GP lane on I-94 between Detroit and Ann Arbor to test out said features?
Cavnue: YES!
MDOT:
Quote from: wanderer2575 on Today at 04:11:58 AMMore irritating to me are store gift cards, i.e. actual cash, that expire (how the fudge does cash expire?) or deduct a monthly "maintenance fee" after some number of months after purchase, like they have to take my card balance out for a walk or something.I remember reading about those in the book Gotcha Capitalism (which has a lot of very, very good advice on avoiding BS fees and the like). Gift cards even have a whole chapter in and of themselves.
Quote from: SEWIGuy on Today at 03:18:17 PMWhat if the person has a gift card for a place they aren't interested in shopping at? Or wants to change grocery stores without leaving a rewards balance (essentially impossible where I shop, as you can't redeem and earn points in the same transaction).Quote from: J N Winkler on Today at 01:31:04 PMIf I had my druthers, merchants would not be allowed to sell anything with a deferred-redemption component unless the full value of said component were kept available to the customer without expiration. This would mean:
* Store gift cards and gift certificates would never expire.
* Stored-value debit cards would never expire. (I believe federal regulations already require this.)
* Loyalty points would remain permanently available to the customer until used up.
* At any point, the customer could demand the full face value in cash.
If this forced supermarket chains to phase out loyalty programs, I would not shed a tear.
What do you have against supermarket loyalty programs?
Anyway, I am with you until the last point. Why should the store have to redeem the card for cash?
Quote from: oscar on Today at 04:27:04 AM^ Yukon and NWT max out at 90km/h, and Nunavut's roads (the few it has are all locally-maintained, except in territorial parks) even less. AFAIK (haven't been there lately), in Newfoundland the speed limits tend to be 10km/h lower than for comparable highways in Quebec.None of the territories have freeways, and 90 matches the maximum MTQ will post on anything that isn't an autoroute or QC 175 between Québec and Saguenay. And Nunavut doesn't have long-distance rural mileage.
Quote from: J N Winkler on Today at 01:31:04 PMIf I had my druthers, merchants would not be allowed to sell anything with a deferred-redemption component unless the full value of said component were kept available to the customer without expiration. This would mean:
* Store gift cards and gift certificates would never expire.
* Stored-value debit cards would never expire. (I believe federal regulations already require this.)
* Loyalty points would remain permanently available to the customer until used up.
* At any point, the customer could demand the full face value in cash.
If this forced supermarket chains to phase out loyalty programs, I would not shed a tear.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on Today at 08:55:58 AMIf we're gonna go for an uncontroversial name, might as well go for a fictional character.The Avatar Kyoshi Memorial Skyway? Although I like the design of Kyoshi Bridge in Republic City better than the cable-stayed mania the US is currently under.