“loyalty cards” are common. stores (and each of their 369354764 data sharing “partners”) get to track everything you buy and when. in exchange, you get token “discounts” on a small selection of products. some stores have done away with the actual physical cards, and use mobile phone apps or just the mobile phone number to track you.

this is not gonna end well for the company or its games… so the only thing i can think of is it’s simply a big a smoke screen for some financial shenanigans.

when the $ numbers start getting big and scary, just extend the length some more to make it look ‘cheaper’… like 8 year car loans and 50 year mortgages.

that’s a lot of chocolate.

semiconductor fab profits are also ‘abnormally high’.