Industries
A card for every counter where the same faces come back
Each shop and service below has its own rhythm and its own kind of regular. Here is how a stamp card fits each one, what tends to get in the way, and a worked example you can copy.
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Auto parts stores
An independent auto parts store has two kinds of regular: the home mechanic who is in most Saturdays for…
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Bakeries
Bakery regulars come weekly, often on the same day, for the same loaf.
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Barbers
A barber's regular is back every three or four weeks, often on the same day at the same hour.
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Beauty salons
Beauty regulars return on a cycle: brows every four weeks, waxing every five or six, a facial each season.
Bookshops
Independent bookshops already know their regulars by their reading.
Bottle shops
An independent bottle shop lives on regulars who come weekly.
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Butchers
A butcher's regular might spend fifty dollars a visit and come twice a month.
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Cafes
The coffee card is the original loyalty card, and the one most often lost, forgotten or stamped twice by a…
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Car detailers
A full detail or a paint correction happens once a year at most, but the owners who care enough to book one…
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Car washes
Car wash regulars run on habit and weather: the same Saturday morning every fortnight, unless it rained all…
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Caterers
A caterer's best customers are not at a counter every morning.
Clothing boutiques
A boutique's regular buys a few times a season and wants to see new stock first.
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Day spas
A day spa meets plenty of guests through a voucher someone else bought.
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Dog trainers
Dog training works when owners keep coming: puppy school, then obedience, then the drop-in class that keeps…
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Florists
Florists have two kinds of customer: the once-a-year occasion buyer and the regular who takes a bunch home…
Gift shops
Gift shop customers are browsers first. The card gives them a reason to come back and buy here instead of…
Greengrocers and delis
Greengrocers and delis see the same people more often than almost any other shop, two or three times a week…
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Hair salons
A hair client can stay with one salon for years, right up until a salon nearer their work looks easier.
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Jewellers
Fine jewellery is bought a few times in a life, but a local jeweller sees the same faces far more often than…
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Laundries
A laundry's regulars are as steady as their washing: the student with a weekly service wash, the office…
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Massage therapists
A client who comes once a month for their back is worth far more than the voucher visitor who comes once.
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Nail salons
Nail clients run to a timetable their own regrowth sets: an infill every two or three weeks, a new set every…
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Pet groomers
Grooming runs on the coat's timetable: a poodle cross every six weeks, a short coat for a bath and nails in…
Pet shops
Pet food is a repeat purchase on a fixed cycle. The person who buys a 15 kilo bag every three weeks is…
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Pharmacies
An independent pharmacy sees its locals more often than almost any shop on the strip, and competes with…
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Phone repair shops
Nobody plans a cracked screen, so a phone repair shop's regulars are not weekly.
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Plant nurseries
Nursery regulars come in waves: most weekends in spring, now and then through summer, once in winter for the…
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Pubs and bars
A local's best customers turn up every week for the same thing: trivia on Wednesday, the parma on Thursday…
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Restaurants
A neighbourhood restaurant lives on locals who come back, more than on visitors who come once.
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Tattoo studios
A tattoo studio's best clients come back: a sleeve takes several sittings, one piece leads to the next, and…
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