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DD_BobK wrote:

On Jan 14, 3:46*pm, "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.
--
Christopher A. Young

You could always use a friend's or relatives's phone number, get the
discount & not give any data.

I have a friend who uses a neighbors phone number.

Most store clerks are so young and dronish that I expect few to
recognize any significance to 867-5309. Add either your area code or one
that you are aware exists in or near your area. Otherwise, next time you
dial a number that turns out being said to not exist or be out of service,
note that one as one to use.

Make your name perhaps that of some politician that is just a bit well
known, such as Harvey Milk or Daniel White. (Both of those were in San
Francisco's legislative branch, and one assassinated the other.) I doubt
many store clerks outside Northern CA recognize these names. Or, try
almost any current or recent-past member of Congress from outside your
state, especially one not being one of the few that had a high rate of
being mentioned in news or political debate. Or a past governor of a
state other than your own or of one adjacent to your own.

Make your address one that is past one end of some street, or where a
stop-and-go street is not going, or where a street would be in a river.
Or make it past the last house of odd side or even side in some "hundred"
/ block, or one skipped by buildings incrementing by more than 2 in
address from one building to the next.
--
- Don Kl. )