The Student Price Card Ecosystem: Is Canada’s $12 "Cheat Code" Still Worth It?

For generations of Canadian high school and post-secondary students, picking up a Student Price Card (SPC) was an annual back-to-school ritual—right up there with buying a fresh binder or overpaying for campus parking. In the physical retail era, the plastic card sat in every student's wallet, flashed at mall registers to knock 10% or 15% off shoes and fast fashion. Fast forward to today, and the retail landscape is fundamentally different. Inflation has squeezed student budgets, online shopping