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My Auto Zone Rewards card is from 2007, hard to think that the card is close to 20 years old now. Last time I used it, I used it to scrape glue off the side of a truck LOL!

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've sill got my Mountain Equipment Co-op card from the year I spend in Calgary, in 1995.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pour one out for pre-shittified MEC.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It used to be co-op (see: the name) but it got taken over by a fecking American corporate board without even compensating the co-op members. A bunch of employees quit and I know I will never buy anything from them again.

edit: Heh, it used to be a running joke that when you travel, Americans are wearing Canadian flags, but Canadians are wearing MEC gear. :) That is no longer the case, since MEC gear is a) shit and b) American-owned, but I repeat myself.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

That's a damn shame.

[–] Yosmonkol@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ah, that's cool. I don't love that the Roots guy is involved, though. Roots has gone to total shit since the 90s, when they outsourced all their work to China. :/

So my opinion has dropped from 5 stars to 1 star, and now it's back up to 2, hahah.