On 1/14/2011 9:22 PM, mm wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:46:06 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

I went into a Rite Aid pharmacy a couple days ago. Select a
couple items from the close out section. The perky young
thing on the register asks for my Wellness Card. Being a
miserable, cantankerous old coot, I tell her I don't have
one. "We can sign you right up for free! Just fill out...."
and I told her that's not going to happen. Well, find out
the only way they will give me the sale price, if I have a
"Wellness card". Which of course requires my name, adress,
etc. I do not wish to be tracked, tagged, marketed,
suggestive sold, and registered with their computer. I told
them to put thier own stuff back. Today I checked with a
different Rite Aid, and find out that's the same policy.
They just lost a customer.

Some of the supermarkets around here insist on a card to get sale
prices. One big one had started with a slogan that said "Save even
more" but that was a lie because the sales with the card were no more
than they used to be without the card.

So I got the card, but I certainly didn't tell them who I was, where I
lived, or my phone number. I gave the address 1 Main St. etc.

Later, they abandoned their plans to write to people, so that ended
their excuse for wanting street addresses, but I'll bet they still ask
for them.

Also later, they started accepting the phone number you gave to get
your card, but I didn't remember what I had said. Still later, a
cashier told me the 4 digit number they used whenever they needed one,
and another said that I could also use any 10-digit number. So I use
a different number each time.


The local Lowes usually asks for a phone # if paying cash. They told me
they use it for returns if you loose your receipt. I did return
something without the reciept, gave them my phone number, and they gave
me my CASH back. On something just recently, I couldn't find the
reciept, and I remembered they didn't ask for my phone number that time.
Went to return it and they did let me return it, but they gave me gift
card type thing so I had to spend the money again at Lowes. I can take
it or leave it, I don't loose any sleep over it.