On 1/14/2011 5:46 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.


I buy a lot of medical supplies from CVS to bandage my leg so
I have a CVS/Mark of The Beast Card but they don't have real
information on me, not even a real Email address. It's been
so long I don't remember but I probably gave them my standard
blow off Email ". I get coupons
with my receipts and sometimes CVS bucks that I use like money
at the store. The last one was $7.00 which came in very handy.
Whenever someone asks me for information that they have no business
with, I first determine if that person has any legal authority to
ask for it and if giving out false information would constitute
any sort of fraud. You don't give false information to open a bank
account or to apply for government assistance and so forth. I've
given out so much false information to the information scavengers
over the years that I had to prove to a credit card company that
I was a real person. It's fun to scramble personal data to keep
the trackers at bay. Everyone needs at least one alternate identity. :-)

TDD