Point System Everywhere I Go.

There's a point system for every store you ever visit in Japan.

Every restaurant.
Every drugstore.
Every grocery store.
Every donut shop.
Every gas station.
Every clothing store.
Every shoe store.
Every hair salon.
Every ........
....basically ANY store that you spend money at.

I find it quite annoying. All these stores give me a stamp card/point card, so I have a whole entire wallet FULL of stamp cards. I can never find the right card for the right store at the right time.

It's the Japanese way of trying to build faithful customers. If you spend enough money at these stores within a certain period of time to fill your stamp card, then you get a small discount.

Do I want a wallet full of stamp cards I can't keep track of, much less gather enough points within the given period of time, in hopes of getting a small discount or a cheap gift? Nope! Not anymore!

At first, I thought I was supposed to keep all the cards and my wallet kept getting bigger and bigger. Well, I've finally realized that I never can get enough points by the designated period, so I've started to just decline the stamp cards to begin with. Shoppings gotten easier since. The cashiers ask me "do you have a point card?" and I just say "no...,oh no thanks, I don't want to make one."