Wal-Mart needs a discount card

Lmao this is funny because I have a discount card. I'm an employee and have been for 6 years. I honestly don't see them branching out and offering a discount card to the public. They already match all the local stores and their discount card prices. I price match anytime I can plus use alot of coupons. I average pretty good with my discount, price matches and coupons.

 

Some sites actually give out Walmart gift cards if you are a loyal visitor. I personally don't use Walmart much, because Target is closer to my house. Target always has good deals and plenty of discounted items.

 

Some things are cheaper, but if you are going to coupon it is almost always better to shop at other stores. WalMart doesn't price match everything. They have a lot of exclusions. And other stores do things like double or triple coupons. I shop usually at Schnucks and I try to save at least 50%. I don't think I could save 50% at Walmart. But I also pretty much only buy things on sale that I have coupons for.

 

Although almost every store offers reward cards, I don't see Walmart doing it because they already have Walmart Savings Catcher and Price Matching.
Plus they already have pretty low prices. I'd love a discount card, but I don't think they'll offer one because they already offer a couple of ways to save.

 

Wow I really thought they offer discount cards. Not only to employees. I usually don't go to Walmart though.

 

Walmart has no incentive to offer discount cards to the general public. Employees receive 10% off on most purchases, minus food for most of the year, unless that's been added in since I left a year ago. The company already offers the lowest prices in most markets for comparable items, and they'd only be undercutting themselves by offering a loyalty card. Grocers offer these cards because they often have higher prices on their products to begin with.

 

I think discount cards are on the way out. They are an archaic way of tracking an individuals purchases, before modern technology came up with more efficient methods. They could simply get people to install apps on their phones that track when they come and go from the store and tie all their purchases back to them. The card was just there to have your own personal ID number on it for their outdated registers to scan into their outdated database and point of sale systems. There are already stores and restaurants where you can place your purchase online, then when you arrive at the store to pick up your order, it automatically detects your presence and charges your checking account. I think PayPal is one of the companies offering this technology.

The concept behind the loyalty cards was to gather more individualized shopping data on their customers, so they could better market to them in a more cost efficient manner. There's the story in the news recently how Target was able to determine one of their customers was likely pregnant based on her shopping habits and started sending her coupons for baby products before she had shared it with her family and friends.