Re:Russian Man Changes Small Print in Credit Card Agreement,...
by ChuckMcM on Thursday August 08, 2013 @11:06AM
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Depending on your purchases at Safeway (grocery store) a partner gas (petrol) station (Chevron) will give you $0.10 - $0.80 discount per gallon of gas. For that to work you have to present to the gas station the same Safeway "club card" that you used to buy your groceries.
The size of the discount is tied to the amount of purchases made with that card present. So if you make a lot of purchases you get a bigger discount per gallon at the gas station.
If you share the card or exchange it with others, the first one to use the discount gets that savings, the next person does not. The discount resets on use, and it can be re-established by the next set of purchases on the card.
What that does is creates an economic incentive for someone to use the same card (maximize purchases to maximize discount) and not share it (discount is one time only, and to the current holder of the card.)
The size of the discount is tied to the amount of purchases made with that card present. So if you make a lot of purchases you get a bigger discount per gallon at the gas station.
If you share the card or exchange it with others, the first one to use the discount gets that savings, the next person does not. The discount resets on use, and it can be re-established by the next set of purchases on the card.
What that does is creates an economic incentive for someone to use the same card (maximize purchases to maximize discount) and not share it (discount is one time only, and to the current holder of the card.)