Consumers earn additional credit as they spend repeatedly at the same merchant the digital version of loyalty punch card.
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The commission, for example, does not endorse junking all punch card ballot machines, even those caused considerable confusion and headaches in Florida.
Square eventually launched a more traditional loyalty program like a punch card in which customers could, say, buy ten and get one free.
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There, the punch card system gave rise to dimpled ballots and hanging chads, leaving electoral officials to scrutinise ballot papers to decipher the voter's intention.
Outside the exhibit stands the company's achievement wall -- showing off IBM's humble beginnings as a punch card clock company and ending with Watson.
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Small businesses are looking at an increasing number of digital loyalty programs, which replace the traditional paper punch card and help merchants reward their repeat customers.
It has a precedent in the introduction of the Powers punch card system into this country by the Prudential, and the subsequent creation of Powers-Samas to make the machines.
The count in Palm Beach County is aimed at picking up votes missed by the flawed Votomatic punch card system, which the county had been advised to abandon years ago.
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Firefly Rewards takes the traditional punch card format digital.
In 1935 IBM landed a contract to tabulate employment for the Social Security system and put those dusty punch-card machines to work.
Punch-card ballots are still used by 26 states for at least part of their election systems, according to a recent report by Electiononline.org.
California is only one of many states not to have learnt the lesson from Florida: 25 other states still use the old punch-card system.
The three-man panel's decision is based on the fact that 44% of the likely voters will have to use the old punch-card voting machines.
Three weeks before California was set to vote on Governor Gray Davis' recall, a federal appeals court postponed the election because of worries about flawed punch-card voting systems.
After the 2000 presidential election debacle, in which a recount exposed Florida's faulty punch-card systems, the state, under Gov. Jeb Bush, embraced ATM-style touch-screen voting in a big way.
Lots of middle-class liberals came from as far away as California and New York to show first-time voters how to use punch-card machines, and to keep an eye open for any signs of voter intimidation.
The company started life making punch-card tabulators.
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He had a great public-relations team and benefited handsomely when all those people could not manage to punch a voting card correctly.
While Amazon's customers punch in their credit card details and wait for the postman's knock, eS-Books' literary surfers will pick up their order from the nearest of the 8, 000 7-Eleven stores nationwide - and pay in cash.
But they got their first points of the afternoon on 16 minutes, when Davis landed a penalty after prop Tom Mercey had been shown a yellow card for throwing a punch at opposite number David Flatman.
Oakes was the victim of an unpunished punch from Simon Shaw just before his yellow card but his stamp was obvious and Wasps took advantage through Leo and Voyce.
The referee called a foul on the player and issued him a yellow card, triggering the player to turn and punch him, authorities said.
The biggest flashpoint of the match came when Montpellier flanker Jerome Vallee was shown a yellow card in the first half for throwing a punch at Mayor.
The first was for a late challenge by Joe Jacobson on Lawrie Wilson and was quickly followed by a red card for Sean McConville, who appeared to throw a punch at an opponent seconds after the initial dismissal.
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Then after just eight minutes South African Schalk Brits, forgetting any club loyalty, sent a punch towards his Saracens teammate and Lions flyhalf Owen Farrell, earning the Barbarians' hooker a yellow card and 10 minutes off the field.
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