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Large, semi-national pizza chain says "text your order and receive 20% off", so I skeptically text my order and promptly receive a reply with a link to continue to their website for confirmation and payment. Pointless.

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I actually like this, in theory. Our local Jets does this and it makes it really simple to reorder pizza since all you do is look back 2 or 3 messages and copy the previous message. However, the implementation is not so great, it seems like randomly the pizza shop does not get the order or respond to it.

I’ve been using this for months now and the 20% offer has been there forever. After the initial jaunt to a webpage for payment you set up a pin. Every subsequent order you text the order, they respond, you enter the PIN, you go pickup a paid for pizza.

My order is consistent and for me it works amazingly!

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