Don Klipstein wrote:
In ,
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.

Even after all that, the first time you pay with check or credit card, they have
your identity if you use the same identifier again.