On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 2:03:42 PM UTC-5, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
On 1/22/2014 12:28 PM, wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:22:14 -0600, Moe DeLoughan

wrote:



On 1/22/2014 11:18 AM, Bob F wrote:

Moe DeLoughan wrote:

On 1/22/2014 4:28 AM, wrote:



The bottom line is this. It appears that you MUST have a Walgreens

card to shop in their stores now. If you dont have one, they charge

you DOUBLE the price listed on the shelf.



Well, if you really wanted the savings, you could always create a fake

name and address and use it to fill out the loyalty cards.



Which only works if you NEVER use anything but cash to pay.



Yes. If you want to limit the amount of detail in your personal

dossiers, you'll try to pay with cash as much as possible. Purchases

made with check, debit or credit card are linked to you and the

retailers sell that information to the data collection companies. That

information, along with that supplied by lenders, insurers, employers,

landlords, and all the publicly available data about each of us,

creates an incredibly detailed personal profile. And it's available to

anyone willing to pay for it. One of the companies sold profiles that

included banking and SSN details to a bunch of foreign hackers who

used it to commit identity theft.



Got a citation? That would make them an accomplice in fact.



Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service



An identity theft service that sold Social Security and drivers

license numbers — as well as bank account and credit card data on

millions of Americans — purchased much of its data from Experian, one

of the three major credit bureaus, according to a lengthy

investigation by KrebsOnSecurity.



...Martin said he first learned of the ID theft service after hearing

from a U.S. Secret Service agent who called and said the law

enforcement agency was investigating Experian and had obtained a grand

jury subpoena against the company.



http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/10/e...theft-service/

Is Experian a supermarket or Walgreens? Does Experian have shopper
discount cards? There are a lot of broad and wild accusations being
made and I agree, I'd like to see some proof. I'm not buying that if
you have a store customer discount program card and use a credit card,
that the credit card is then stored and linked to your discount card.
For one thing, what is the need to even do that? Each time you use
a credit card you have to present it, it get instantly authorized, etc.
Why would they store that and tie it to your account? I think there
is a lot of paranoia going on here.