Loyalty bag

Want to help save Armenia’s environment? It’s as simple as a bag – the new Loyalty Bag!

Get

1. Get Your Loyalty Bag

LOAD

2. Load Loyalty Bag on Your Smartphone

Partner

3. Become a partner (for stores)

Donate

4. Become a donor

Loyalty Bag is a holistic approach so people and businesses can replace single-use plastic bags in everyday life. Our Loyalty Bags are sustainable, responsible, tech-savvy, attractive, and rewarding.

Replacing your single-use plastic bags with the recycled reusable totes barcoded Loyalty Bag, you generate consumer benefits in partner stores. Loyalty Bag is also supported by an interactive mobile app that tracks environmentally sustainable behavior so you can measure what you’re doing to help save Armenia’s natural beauty.

Loyalty Bag is a patented project brought to you by “ISSD” Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Development of Communities” NGO and funded by the Norwegian Retailers’ Environment Fund. The project was launched in June 2020 and launched to the general public on March 26, 2021.

HOW LOYALTY BAG WORKS

Get Your Loyalty Bag

Loyalty Bag is a recycled, reusable tote barcoded to generate consumer benefits in partner stores and supported by an interactive mobile app that gives you insights into your environmentally sustainable choices.To get your Loyalty Bag today, contact us at loyaltybag@issdngo.com

Load Loyalty Bag on Your Smartphone

Scan and register into the interactive mobile app as many Loyalty Bags as you want. You earn bonuses whether your grandma or your brother is using your Loyalty Bag while shopping.

Download the iOS or Android mobile version onto your smartphone.

After scanning and registering your Loyalty Bag(s), use them instead of plastic bags at any partner business. Consumers collect one of two rewards:

  1. They can opt to receive a percentage of their purchase (e.g. 5% of total receipts during that transaction) to be used against future purchases in the partner store.
  2. Or they access discounts, gifts and other perks from across Armenia.

You can review the type of rewards offered by a specific partner store by clicking on their logo in the “Partners” section.

You can review transactions and bonuses on your app. Based on your buying behavior, the app calculates your accumulated environmental footprint and suggests improvements. You also receive notices about other environmentally responsible opportunities via the app.

Loyalty Bag builds on existing loyalty programs, eliminating the need for too-often-lost-or-forgotten plastic cards since your registered barcode is securely sewn into each bag.

You never miss out on rewards for being loyal to nature!

Just as important as Loyalty Bag rewards, the interactive mobile app gives you insights into your best environmentally sustainable behavior and ideas for improving it.

Annually, Armenia imports over 18,000 tonnes of chemicals to make single-use plastic bags, and we’re estimated to rank 6th globally in per capita waste generation. No plastic bag fees charged in the marketplace are currently invested in recovering from environmental degradation. However, all this will change in January 2022 when Armenia bans certain single-use plastic bags.

As of January 2021, we have collected 100,000 used plastic bags and 10 tons of other waste (exchangeable with bags) and recycled it. By joining the Loyalty Bag program, you are part of a growing group of like-minded consumers who support improved solid waste management in Armenia, which leads to a cleaner and healthier environment for you, your family and friends. 

Loyalty Bags mean safer shoppers, especially when in the face of viruses such as COVID-19. Customers erroneously believe throwing away single-use plastic bags is hygienic. However, research suggests viruses such as COVID-19 may be active on plastic for up to three days. This means people touching single-use bags can pass viruses to others, all the way to the solid waste management employees picking up your trash.

Loyalty Bags create jobs for women, who help in their production and distribution. This scalable part of our project is a pilot that has a parallel aim of significantly improving resource efficiency of plastic in Armenia and, eventually, creating a model around the world.

Loyalty Bag reduces the amount of waste as well as energy consumed across its lifecycle and decreases Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. By disrupting or altering some stages of that lifecycle through recycling, or by entirely avoiding the stages through reduction and reuse, Armenia can breathe easier.

Become a partner (for stores)

Your business can join ISSD’s Loyalty Bag project to reduce and replace plastic bags in Armenia. 

By joining Loyalty Bag today, your business:

  • Becomes one of the first in this strategic move to support Armenia’s environment by reducing single-use plastic bags (which will be banned as of January 1, 2022, according to RA law),
  • Gets up to 50 free bags to award to your most loyal customers.
  • Is featured in marketing produced by ISSD. Put your logo in front of customers who are increasingly concerned about environmentally friendly, sustainable business practices that help save our environment.
  • Attracts new customers from other Loyalty Bag partners.
  • Receives the latest analytic market reports and more about Armenian consumers who are passionate about reducing their carbon footprints; national efforts to clean up our environment; and innovative businesses that are lowering costs and increasing sales while helping save our plant..

To join today, you must:

  • Have a business computer to track transactions and read bar codes.
  • Install the stand-alone Loyalty Bag software (it does NOT access confidential information on the same computer).
  • Sign a cooperation agreement (provided by ISSD),
  • Prepare a motivational offer for customers (for example, the opportunity to collect money of X% of the price of their purchases in your business, which will later be spent in your organization).
  • Participate in our Loyalty Bag marketing preparation processes (for example, providing your logo or information about your business, as requested).
  • Sell Loyalty Bags to customers who may not have them – or have enough of them – for their purchases in your business.

For more information, contact us at LoyaltyBag@issdngo.com

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Every single detail is important in the Middle East, which makes family business a mini culture. Traditionally, not only unique recipes were passed on to the younger generation, but also special skills and techniques to create them. Because these skills and recipes vary from family to family, each family initiative has its own unique style and characteristics. This is the case with “Haleb”.
As a part of Armenian culture, the founders decided to create “Haleb” with Eastern recipes and Armenian touch.

Imagine mountains, heat of the Vayots Dzor sun, two century old roots:  this is Maran – family, history and creation of wine. Maran’s origins date back to 1828-1830, when Maran and her family emigrated from Persia to the province of Vayots Dzor in Armenia. They planted a vineyard in their homeland. Later Maran’s sons expanded vineyard and started making wine.  200 years later, Maran’s winemaking traditions have been preserved and illustrated in the popular “Noravank,” “Bagratuni,” “Zarm,” “Parajanov,” “Malahi” wines.

“Prime Casual Wear” brand has developed a unique way of restoring and reminding us of our roots, preferences and history. A real exciting journey awaits the customers in the store. Brand shirts are produced and printed in Yerevan, and the sieve printing allows them to be washed many times without damaging its look and preserving the quality features. The ideas of talented people are united in this cozy corner of Yerevan․ The goal is to create and print exclusive designer clothes with a unique approach.

Become a donor

You can help ISSD’s Loyalty Bag grow a greener environment in Armenia by donating today.

  • We’re helping eliminate the environmental degradation caused by single-use plastic bags blowing across Armenia and clogging precious water systems with micro-plastic pollutants.
  • We’re rewarding consumers who use their bar-coded Loyalty Bag at participating stores and helping them learn more about reducing their carbon footprints.
  • We’re creating jobs for women involved in assembling and distributing Loyalty Bags.

Donating your green (drams, dollars, Euros) helps extend the reach of this innovative program in Armenia by getting the recycled, reusable Loyalty Bags onto the arms of all consumers. To donate, contact us at info@issdngo.com

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