I don’t see any use case for this retailer outside of doing scummy shit.

  • Functionally, yes. I mean, they probably stopped being a true co-op going on for a decade ago or more. But they finally neutered their membership rewards program so much that any vestige of an allusion to any manner of cooperative structure is now totally gone. You can’t cash out your rewards anymore, they’re only usable as company scrip now, and they expire.

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      7 days ago

      Wow. I got like a lifetime membership ages ago, I didn’t know about that, thank you for filling me in a bit. That fuckin sucks shit.