“Are you a member of our loyalty program?”
Getting to the checkout without hearing that phrase is a modern feat of humankind. Retailers, financial services, and expanding sectors like drugstores and restaurants know that loyalty membership programs are one of the easiest ways to get individual data on shoppers while enhancing the brand-to-consumer relationship. But when shoppers are asked (and asked, and asked again), they often can’t see the forest for the trees&mdash....