Regarding Supermarket Loyalty Cards, a Shopper Provides Demographic and Shopping-Related

question 91

Multiple Choice

Regarding supermarket loyalty cards, a shopper provides demographic and shopping-related information when applying for the cards.At check-out, the UPC-coded loyalty cards are swiped prior to scanning the items for purchase.Typically, databases gather the list of items that are scanned at check-out and match them to the shopper's records.

• A)Maintaining these databases reduces grocery-store profits by 11 percent each year.
• B)In 2004, Congress proposed legislation limiting loyalty card programs.
• C)The supermarkets' data from these loyalty programs cannot be sold to syndicated research firms.
• D)Forty percent of supermarkets have reported increased sales as a result of implementing their loyalty card programs.
• E)Most consumers are unaware that the supermarkets have all this information on them.

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