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Thousands of restaurants, online merchants and major companies, such as General Motors and ExxonMobil, have teamed up with Upromise to offer rebates on purchases. In return, these corporations hope to improve customer loyalty. Hal Cramer, president of ExxonMobil, says his firm uses its marketing budget to pay the rebates and a membership fee to Upromise...
...Most are motorists who whiz through tollbooths daily, paying their way with electronic passes attached behind their windshields. In North America, 6 million now use m-commerce to pay for gas and fast food, and their numbers are growing at 70% to 80% a year. Since 1997, 5 million ExxonMobil customers have paid for gas with just a wave from little Speedpass wands on their key rings. Phillips 66 and Shell announced their own Speedpass clones this year. Fast-food companies such as McDonald's, KFC and Taco Bell, as well as Canteen Vending, began rolling out m-commerce initiatives...
After six months of testing in nine stores in the Chicago area, McDonald's in mid-October began allowing holders of ExxonMobil Speedpass wands to use them to buy meals at more than 400 area McDonald's outlets. "Customers like it because it's quick--no slip to sign, no code to punch in. It's swipe and go," says Dave Rosales, McDonald's director of strategy and business development. In Orange County, Calif., and on New York's Long Island, commuters can even use their electronic toll passes to pay for purchases at some McDonald's drive-through windows...
...which is no model of military discipline itself, used stories like Afrina's to justify its attacks on civilians who work for ExxonMobil. Last December, a company plane was hit by ground fire as it approached a landing strip in Lhokseumawe. From Feb. 24 to March 3, mines blew up under three buses carrying ExxonMobil's employees. When mortars landed on a facility called Point A later in March, the company's security advisers decided things had become too dangerous. The firm shuttered its operations and evacuated Bukit Indah, leaving it in the hands of the now beefed-up military...
...July 2 an ExxonMobil spokeswoman said that security had been restored to the company's satisfaction. Foreign employees are expected to return to Bukit Indah's tennis courts and swimming pools...