Modern life is so tied with smartphones living without it is increasingly becoming harder

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The most ridiculous part are services insisting you install an app when everything their app does could be in a progressive web app. PWAs are less work to develop as they can run on any device with a browser. For fast food and clothing brands especially, I think PWAs are a no brainer. (Unless you want to track your customers coughTimHortonscough)

It's your last point there. They want you to install an app because said apps can collect a lot more data points on a fool consumer than a web app.

Decathlon you need a smartphone for their loyalty card. Only upside is you don't have to get receipts for their 1 year return policy.

In my country (Czech Republic) you can tell them your email address that is tied to your account