Today has been a good and a bad day for loyalty cards. On the plus side, I got my 10th free coffee (well, chai latte) at Nero's, where I ate my Nichol's pasty hidden behind Peter Kay's new book. They didn't suspect a thing. On the negative side, I discovered my Body Shop card thing had run out, because apparently a year is long enough to have a loyalty card, and had to buy a new one. I say 'had to' because the saleswoman properly befuddled me, and so I ended up paying £5 (well, a bit less with 30% off for a 'new' signup, or something) in order to save money, for a card that I only got to get a free birthday present and which frequently causes me to spend more than I would have done in order to spend more than £10 to get a stamp because the one thing I wanted was less than £10 with 10% off. Work that out. So basically the Body Shop wins. Re: loyalty cards in general, so many Waterstones Christmas shoppers have missed out on billions of points today; but just in case any of us were tempted to take up their points for ourselves, we were told the precautionary tale of the gang of booksellers at Waterstones Plymouth who did just that, and all of whom got instantly sacked. Damn.
In other news, the New Inn, and 'New Moon' provided an excellent night out yesterday. Vast amounts of strawbs were consumed, during a film throughout which I have never before heard the like of such blatant perving from an audience. The whoops when Jacob whipped his shirt off were loud and lingering. Absolute hilarity. VAMPIRE.
Tonight's plan is food, X-factor and either Iliad or Gerard Manley Hopkins. What a combination.
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The Body Shop and their "loyalty" cards are ridiculous. Money grabbing gets and yet they claim to be ethical. Chuh! I used to have a Waterstones card before my purse went missing. Never really did anything with the points though. Ah well. I'm waiting for my new Boots card to arrive. So many cards, so many ways for Big Brother to watch our every move....
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