{"id":3112,"date":"2018-11-01T07:32:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T12:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2019-01-23T10:25:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T16:25:34","slug":"credit-card-reward-programs-are-hard-on-merchants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/01\/credit-card-reward-programs-are-hard-on-merchants\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit Card Reward Programs Are Hard on Merchants"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Every major U.S. carrier earned more from credit-card and loyalty programs in the second quarter than during the year-earlier period, financial disclosures show. For many airlines, those increases outpaced overall sales growth. Much of the revenue comes from the credit cards associated with loyalty programs, though the programs don\u2019t necessarily require customers to have a credit card.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>This excerpt comes to us <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/airlines-cash-in-on-loyalty-credit-cards-1535362202?mod=hp_lead_pos4\">from the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, which details just how lucrative airline-sponsored credit cards are becoming.<\/p><div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/subscribe\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/log-in\/\">log in<\/a> to read the rest of this content.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every major U.S. carrier earned more from credit-card and loyalty programs in the second quarter than during the year-earlier period, financial disclosures show. For many airlines, those increases outpaced overall sales growth. Much of the revenue comes from the credit cards associated with loyalty programs, though the programs don\u2019t necessarily require customers to have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solutions","category-merchants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p81nA2-Oc","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reformingretail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-11-at-9.45.22-AM.png?fit=682%2C666&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4295,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions\/4295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}