On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 13:09, Philip Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> In British English the term used is Cashback. > I can confirm that. I'm not sure, but I think it's only possible to get cashback if you make a purchase. But that could just be a policy of some stores, or I could be completely wrong (I've never tried to get cashback without making a purchase). Its never been something I have thought of tagging, just an option we > assume to be available at supermarkets. > And convenience stores, such as Spar (my local Spar doesn't charge for cashback but I'm told other shops in the franchise do). I don't think it would be sensible to tag nodes with the intention of having them rendered in some way, as in a large supermarket it would mean mapping every till. Even my local Spar has three tills, and it's not a big shop. Probably best as a property on the shop itself. Incidentally, I recall reading somewhere I cannot remember (and can definitely not vouch for the accuracy of the info) that cashback arose because banks charge a fee on large(?) shops depositing their takings, and that fee is a percentage of the size of the deposit. Various EPOS vendors decided they could give shops a cashback facility and charge a lower percentage of the transaction than the shop would pay a bank to deposit it. If this is all true, the shops aren't doing you a favour, they're doing themselves a favour by giving you an incentive to use them, doing themselves a favour by reducing the fee they pay the bank, and triple-dipping if they charge you for cashback. -- Paul
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