3 Ways To Simplify Store Cards

Posted on December 17, 2008 by LJ

Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

Photo by William HookJust about every store out there offers a “club” card. These cards either give you outright discounts on items, or allow you to build up points toward rewards.

The problem is the proliferation of these cards. If you carried all of them around, you would end up with a wallet stuffed full of plastic, and a keyring that contained more plastic than keys.

This is a call for simplification.

Consolidation

There are two basic ways to consolidate: do-it-yourself, or get some help.

Do-It-Yourself Consolidation

The first one can be time-consuming, but worth it. Photocopy all the bar codes from your cards onto a sheet of paper. Cut them out and tape them to a blank card. You have only to carry the one card for all your needs. (Label them, of course!)

Online Consolidation

The second method I stumbled across, and it’s a web application that does the work for you. Found at JustOneClubCard.com, you put in up to eight numbers, and it will generate a single card for you.

Skip The Cards

My favorite method is to leave the cards at home. I have found that most places offer a way to look up your club card by a phone number. I have gotten to the point where I will not shop at places that don’t offer the look up service.

Photo by William Hook

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  1. Vince says:
    December 17, 2008 at 7:48 am

    My wife and I have many of these cards also, many for places we rarely visit. We have rubber banded them together and put them in the glove box of our car. When we go somewhere we don’t usually shop, we take a second, pull out the card and off we go. My favorite place is Ace Hardware who gave me a card, a key tag, and two peel off tiny labels that I could stick to my credit / debit card. Just being able to use my debit card with their bar code on the back is the ultimate in quick convenience.