Incentive Program Management - Green Bag Rebate Scraped Safeway
Incentive Program Management - Green Bag Rebate Scraped Safeway
Safeway the healthy supermarket chain has stopped the rebate for green bag as of March 2011. The new program in place of that is providing you with the ten percent discount on the products in the discount list if you bring your own bags. This change means a lot, as the use and convince of plastic has made it impossible for the chain to keep up demand with the paper bags. In reality paper bags even if they get disintegrated into the environment fast, they are still produced from trees. The best approach and that is taken now is to ask the customers to bring their own bags for shopping. The pro
Some details of the new scheme show that you can also add up your percent of saving as well. This way rather then buying for some discount the fist time, you can accumulate that to purchase something you wish next time. Some critics of the change of policy say that the store should have kept up using the paper bags as they are environmentally friendly and are the real future not the plastic bags no one wants.
This issue brings into the light the history of Safeway. Let's explore how the firm was started and the philosophy behind the green bags. Safeway was started in 1915 by M.B. Skaggs. He started a store in small town Idaho with his father. His idea was to expand the business by keeping the customers happy. He provided them with discounts by selling the products at lower rates then rivals. In just ten years time in 1926 his store was working in more then 428 places. M. B store was merged with the Selig store to called Safeway. This was one of few establishments who survived and worked even during the great depression too. The idea of green bag is similar to the whole philosophy of the Safeway. Even their motto is Ingredients for Life. Today with more then 1702 stores their impact on the no plastic bags was huge.
Incidentally Italy scraped the use of plastic bags from January 2011. This is due to the efforts of the environment minister Stephanie Prestigiacomo. Today Italy is one of the few places where you might not find any plastic shopping bag, and Italian are famous for shopping. Even though there is no Europe wide ban on plastic bags. Still this is perfect example for anyone who wishes Incentive Program Management to find a way out of plastic problem. It took the Italian industry one year to prepare but they accomplished the unthinkable.