On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 05:39:55 -0800, "Julie Bove"
wrote:

I guess you won't be saving much money them. Perhaps such cards are rare in
your area but I doubt it. CVS and Rite Aid have the same. And most of the
grocery stores in this area have the same. Plus they are loading coupons
straight to your card. So... No card? SOL. You could always do what
someone I know does. Get the card with a bogus name, bogus phone number and
a throwaway account for e-mail.

I live in a rural area. The town is very small. We dont have crap like
this. My local pharmacy sends me a thing in the mail every so often for
a free $5.00 off any purchase, based on the number of prescriptions I
get. But that's fine. They have my personal information from my
prescriptions, so I dont have to sign up anything. I like these bonuses
too. We dont have a Walgreens. I was visiting a big city, which is
where this Walgreens is. Our rural grocery stores dont have anything
like that either. Everyone in the area gets a flyer in the mail about
twice a month full of coupons. I can use them without having to give
out any personal information. Of course half the people that work there
are my friends and neighbors, so they dont need to invade my privacy or
have me fill out forms. They know me, I know them, and most of them are
decent people.

I'm glad I live in a rural area and small town. The only downfall is
that we only have slow dialup internet service out here in the country.
The only way to get fast intenet is to subscribe to satellite tv, and
that's very costly. The other downfall is a lack of access to stores
that sell affordable building materials and machinery parts. We almost
have to go to one of the cities for that stuff. But I'll live with the
slow internet, and lack of certain stores and businesses versus all the
craziness of the big cities. Our local pharmacy is really "cool" too.
They have all sorts of handmade crafts to sell, and some real great
antique stuff to decorate the place. Walgreens is just BLAH in that
regard. Every store is the same it seems...... But that seems to be the
case with all chain stores. Walmart is like that too, but at least they
dont play all those games and require cards and forms to fill out. What
it says on the shelf is what I pay, and I like it that way.