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Permalink Reply by Jason Shipley on December 7, 2010 at 7:19am

I'll bet Mugs would be good, you could just have a bar code printed on each and activate them the same as a gift or loyalty card. Bar code scanners are cheap and can easily be added to most POS systems.

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Permalink Reply by Ron Ingber on December 12, 2010 at 5:20am

Excellent idea. True "out of the box" thinking.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by David Lanning on December 12, 2010 at 6:15am

The only issue is that this would require a "unique" bar code to be printed on every mug to track value if it was being used in place of a gift card.

 

Great idea though...

Jason Shipley said:

I'll bet Mugs would be good, you could just have a bar code printed on each and activate them the same as a gift or loyalty card. Bar code scanners are cheap and can easily be added to most POS systems.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Hallberg on December 12, 2010 at 1:37pm

So we're using RFID tags to give each mug a unique account number, customers just wave the mugs past a reader. Tags are pretty cheap and don't add too much to the total cost of the mug. Shops need to purchase an RFID reader for each POS but readers are affordable at $40.

You can read more about what we're doing here.

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