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EDA restarts BlueDot shop-local rewards with $5,000 allocation, asks staff for guardrails
Goochland County Economic Development Authority · March 19, 2026
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Summary
After reviewing usage data, the Goochland EDA approved a $5,000 restart of the BlueDot shop-local rewards pilot, asked staff to investigate unusually large user earnings and to request per-user caps or fraud protections from the vendor.
Staff presented three years of BlueDot pilot data and a recommendation to resume the paused shop-local rewards program with a $5,000 allocation. The dataset showed steady user growth, a spike coincident with Richmond’s program rollout, and several high-earning outliers that prompted member questions about…
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