DAVAO CITY — Homegrown retail chain New City Commercial Corp. (NCCC) is positioning for extra cashless transactions with Thursday’s launch of the NCCC Mastercard in partnership with Metrobank Card Corp.

The card goals to present NCCC customers with extra handy fee choices and monetary flexibility. It may even present entry to unique reductions and promotions in NCCC’s supermarkets and different retail chains.

Lafayette A. Lim, chief government officer of the NCCC Group of Companies, mentioned aside from the NCCC Mastercard, they’re additionally engaged on digital wallets and different techniques like pay as you go and postpaid providers.

“NCCC is already preparing for.. and working on going cashless transactions,” he mentioned.

The NCCC bank card replaces the prevailing NCCC Kanegosyo Rewards Card utilized by wholesalers and sari-sari retailer homeowners. Regular rewards card holders can also avail of the bank card.

“If you use cash, you still need to present your rewards card to earn points, but if you use your Mastercard, you don’t need to anymore show your NCCC rewards card because the Mastercard and NCCC rewards card are already linked together,” Joseph G. Uy, chief info officer of the NCCC’s LTS Pinnacle Holdings, Inc., defined.

The NCCC Mastercard may also be utilized in different retailers nationwide in addition to for on-line procuring.

“This is something new to us and we are all excited. I hope this would be successful and make this program beneficial not only to our company but to our Kanegosyo partners and customers,” Mr. Lim mentioned. — Maya M. Padillo