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Real Data Communications Advertiser CoopWhat is an Advertiser Coop? While many businesses are complaining about business, warehouse clubs with limited assortments, no paper bags, long checkout lines and cement floors are popping up like dandelions in a spring lawn and raking in record profits. Sales at warehouse clubs -- which often call themselves wholesale clubs, even though they sell to retail customers -- reached $24 billion last year. Industry experts estimate that sales will increase by 25 percent this year. Their growth has prompted more than a few traditional supermarkets and retailers to match some bargains at nearby warehouse clubs. What draws the customers to a 100,000-square-foot warehouse is the sport of bulk shopping and the opportunity for a bargain. Dodging forklift trucks stacked with pallets of food, electronic equipment, furniture, appliances and clothing is part of the game, which shoppers usually pay $25 a year to play. The club scores an average of $75 to $100 on each visit. What is the down side of warehouse clubs? Warehouse clubs are unpredictable. The brands change. You can't do daily food shopping there unless your goal is to weigh 400 pounds. With rare exceptions, people who shop in warehouse clubs also do some shopping in supermarkets, for several reasons. The assortment at a warehouse club is far more limited than in a traditional supermarket: there are just a few varieties in each category. Sometimes there are no fresh meats, poultry, fish or in-house bakeries, though that is changing. Warehouse clubs carry 3,000 to 4,000 different products, including nonfood items. A traditional supermarket has 20,000 to 30,000, and "megastores" with pharmacies and other departments have 50,000 or more. Careful shoppers also find that the weekly specials at supermarkets meet or beat the prices for the same item at nearby warehouse clubs. And supermarkets, aware that the clubs are taking some of their business, have begun their own forms of volume-discount shopping or affiliations with discount services like Real Data Communications Advertiser Coops. Ten pounds of Uncle Ben's converted rice, for example, was $5.99 at Cosco Wholesale; four miles down the road at Shop Rite, there was a special price of $3.99 for the same amount. (Shop Rite was also selling a five-pound package for $4.69.) A 35-ounce package of Cheerios, not normally sold in traditional supermarkets, was available at the Giant Food store for $5.29, the same price being charged by Sam's Club. Warehouse clubs seldom have more than one size -- humongous -- of any given item. If the items are smaller the shopper must buy at least two, or sometimes an entire case. Clothing items, furniture, hardware, automotive and many other items are not available or must be purchased in again large quantities.
Our goal is to join business owners and their employees who represent a buying force of individual consumers and form a vast buyer's cooperative, thereby gaining tremendous consolidated buying power so that our Members may purchase products and services at the lowest possible cost and at the same time driving traffic to other Member businesses. We strive to encourage the development of a vast, self-sufficient, economic community of "people helping people, businesses helping businesses." Membership in Real Data Communications Advertiser Coop provides you, a business owner, with real Group Buying Power! As a Member, you and your employees can will earn discounts, promotions and Reward Points whenever you shop at hundreds of popular businesses, stores and specialty shoppes through out the US and Canada. We invite you to learn about our Multi-Merchant Reward Card & Customer Incentive Program that is exploding accross the country and in Canada. We are currently registrationing local merchants such as your self, and you can register to gain the latest updates and information on our program. Real Data Communications Advertiser Coop will manage the entire incentive program for you, from the advertising and marketing of your local business to our Member’s, to the reporting and processing of Member Reward Points, to the accrual and redemption of Member Rewards, as well as handle all the Member follow up, customer service, and support of the program. This leaves you as a merchant to do what you do best, which is to run your business.
The percentage of your purchase that you earn as Reward Points is listed at each store in the ClubShop Mall. Accumulate your Rewards Points and redeem them for Cash Back or select from a wide variety of Rewards and Gift Certificates. Reward Points accumulate until you make a selection to redeem them, so the more you shop using your ClubShop.com membership, the greater your rewards!
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