Marketers have spent years obsessing over loyalty
programs. Consumers, meanwhile, have apparently been judging brands within the first purchase and then deciding whether the points are worth collecting later.
That's one of the biggest
takeaways from Merkle's 2026 Loyalty Barometer, which surveyed 2,000 U.S. consumers across
10 industries. The …
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