August 2008
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
8h 57m
English
Tesco Clubcard was by no means the first supermarket loyalty scheme. For that, we have to look back more than a century to the British Cooperative movement and the Dividend or ‘divi’ it paid its members.
The Rochdale Equitable Pioneers’ Society was founded in 1844 by 28 weavers. It was not the first co-operative, but it is the origin of today’s Co-op supermarket chain. Run by working people for working people, the Society had eight principles, the most important of which decreed that any surplus should be distributed back to the members, in proportion to their contribution.
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