Loyalty Programs play a significant role in a company’s customer retention plan. They help motivate consumers in choosing a company over their competitors by offering monetary rewards or special treatment rewards to loyal consumers. Loyalty Programs were first introduced to Canadians in 1958 when A.J. Billes decided to boost gas bar business by giving away Canadian Tire ’Money ’. (Canadian Tire Corporation‚ 2010). Canadian Tire ‘Money’ is still a very successful loyalty program that millions of
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ABSTRACT Customer and customer loyalty have an increasing importance in today’s competitive world. The companies follow customer share intelligence instead of market share intelligence. The most used method for this is information technology based customer relationship management. In this paper it is examined the factors that affect this loyalty‚ the place of information technology based customer relationship management variables such as club cards‚ calling centers and web sites
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Connie’s Paradigm In Joyce Carol Oates’ short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” we follow the main character Connie as she faces an inner transformation. The author introduces Connie as a vain and inexperienced adolescent who seems to daydream about things she doesn’t quite understand as she has more of a naive idea of what adulthood is all about. She takes pleasure in having control over everyone and everything around her. These ideas as well as her security are shaken when the
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If you were given all the money you would ever need‚ and were free to do absolutely anything with your life‚ what would you choose to do and why? If I was fortunate enough to have me financial needs guaranteed‚ I would concentrate on my short term goal of getting an education on in engineering and thus prepared‚ move on to my long term goal of becoming an entrepreneur in a twin field of software design and robotic. The great cities of North America are rusting out and we need new industry to create
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Where and when were you born? When I was born I was in Greensboro‚ NC. May 21‚ 1943. What year was it when you were my age? I was 17 in 1960. The play takes play in 1938- how old were you then? I wasn’t born at the time. Did you go to school? Where and for how long? I attended C.A. Johnson Columbia‚ SC for 4 years. What were you favorite subject? You least favorite? Why? English was my favorite‚ Chemistry was my least favorite. What was the main sport at your school? The main sports at my school
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INTRODUCTION: “Where Are You Going Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol‚ showcases the inevitable effects of youthful exuberance in a teenage girl. The story is a compelling tale which unveils the vulnerability of Connie‚ a young teenage girl who could barely substantiate fantasy from reality. She prides herself as a pretty girl who understands the basic principles of life. Her encounter with Arnold Friend reveals her as someone who lacks the mental ability to make meaningful decisions and accurate
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revolution consisted of women demanding their own rights so they could become more and more independent. There were significant shifts in social attitudes‚ behaviors‚ and institutional regulations at the beginning of the 60’s and also lasted through the 70’s. The sexual drive increased majorly and the amount of women that had sex before marriage also sky rocketed. In Where Are you Going‚ Where Have You Been‚ Connie wants sexual attention from men‚ and that hurts her self-confidence and puts a real strain
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Everything about her had two sides to it‚ one for home and one for anywhere that was not home...." The first quote is from “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ written by Joyce Carol Oates. It is in reference to Connie‚ who is a teenager. She is no longer a girl‚ yet she is not a woman. She would leave home she looking one way and arrive at her destination another way. 2. She would have been a good woman . . . if it had been someone there to shoot her every minute of her life." The second quote is
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The Devil’s Favorite Sin: Vanity In "Where are You Going‚ Where Have you Been?" Joyce Carol Oates uses an allegorical figure of evil to illustrate the theme of temptation. Oates alludes to hell through the character Arnold Friend‚ as the devil‚ and his victim Connie‚ who invites him in by committing one of the devil’s favorites sins: vanity. The narrator implies that Arnold Friend is Satan by giving certain clues that the reader can easily deduce. The name that Oates gives to the character
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In Joyce Carol Oates’ “‘Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?’ and Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film‚” Oates writes that Connie “An innocent young girl is seduced by way of her own vanity” and that “she confuses death for erotic romance” (419). Oates clearly defines her point when Connie first discovers Arnold Friend at the drive in diner. She catches Friend staring at her with a big smile and Connie “slit her eyes at him and turned away‚ but she couldn’t help looking back” (409). The fact
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