Loyalty
Loyalty is one of my character traits and I admire it in others. However, when the term is applied to supermarkets, it immediately loses most of its appeal. I remember when Shirley and I were in Victoria, Canada back in 2014. We had a hotel room on the waterfront - complete with cooking facilities. One night, rather than going out to eat, we decided to purchase some provisions from a nearby, moderately-sized supermarket. When we reached the checkout, it immediately became clear that the various prices we had spotted around the store were only available to customers with loyalty cards. Of course, being tourists, we did not have a loyalty card and so our bill more or less doubled. Thankfully, there was a nice Canadian lady behind us in the checkout queue and she offered to buy our items using her loyalty card and then we could reimburse her at the ATM. It saved us a substantial amount of money. In 2014, such loyalty schemes were not that advanced in England. However, during the...