White Label Loyalty Blog

Here at White Label Loyalty, we often say that we believe we are the Future of Loyalty. So what does that mean, you ask? Let us tell you what we think the Future of Loyalty Programs looks like.

Nothing is as it seems. We welcomed 2020 with open arms and we were blessed with a pandemic. Today, we’re here to reveal some expectations vs. reality about loyalty programs. We don’t mean to burst any bubbles here but let us set a few things straight...

Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, we have been closely monitoring the situation and learning from consumer and market research reports, best in industry examples and past crises insights. Today, we’d like to share some of this knowledge with you to help you navigate through the pandemic world as an efficient and innovative brand.

This article aims to shed a light on the future of shopper marketing and brand activation as we move full steam into recovery mode. I will start by acknowledging that even before C-19, shopper marketing was changing. The classic P&G model of being able to plot a consumer buying journey had already been disrupted by digital. This meant that the consumers purchase journey had become increasingly fluid, leaving many interpretation and engagement plans generally unrealistic.

Following the Government’s new guidance on how to reopen hospitality businesses post-lockdown, there has been a large debate over the new Track & Trace requirements. Between managing the numbers of guests, heightened hygiene and social distance policing, restaurants, pubs, bars and cafés have a lot on their plate. The last thing they need is to worry about abiding by the data-protection legislation they might not be familiar with. Luckily, we’re here to help. Read on to find our 5 steps to a safe hospitality Track & Trace.

China has emerged from its lockdown slumber and into a stabilisation phase, inching back to normality one week at a time; China's experience can give us a glimpse into the future how shoppers will react once the curtain slowly starts to lift.

That being said, China is a very different place to the UK's in many ways. For example, can you imagine the UK government releasing an app that assigns us covid health codes that dictate whether we can go to work, enter cafes or shopping malls? Look at the resistance to the NHS contact tracing app here in the UK!

Yet more evidence that large companies are still getting it wrong! A new global study showed that diners want more personalised rewards and generally find the loyalty offers not relevant to them. Hotel & Restaurant customers said personalisation based on their stated preferences would be far more appealing.

Loyalty Apps give consumers easier access to rewards, in fact a recent study showed 52% of millennials want to use their mobile devices to take advantage of loyalty programmes offered by restaurants, bars and coffee shops etc, rather than their loyalty cards, which get lost and forgotten frequently.

Some of you may know that Tesco recently made cuts to it’s Clubcard rewards, causing quite a controversy!

Customers, some who had saved their loyalty vouchers for as long as 23 years (when the programme was first introduced in 1995) were not happy and didn’t hold back on expressing their outrage.