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
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..

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.

Been going on for years at most supermarkets.
I do not recall anything that says you have to give them accurate info
since they give you the card on the spot.
If they ask for an email address you may get coupons. I have a separate
gmail account that I give out for these type of things.

On 1/14/2011 6:46 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've got one. Doesn't bother me but card is scarcely worth it and you
only have to use it on sales items which I believe are just their brand.
Unless you pay for everything with cash, you're getting tracked anyway.
My meds come through the mail and other pharm supplies are much cheaper
at Walmart.

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 quit shopping at safeway, then QFC, years ago because of the same spy cards.

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:48:37 -0800, "Bob F"
wrote:

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 quit shopping at safeway, then QFC, years ago because of the same spy cards.

Winn-Dixie and CVS pharmacies both have these obnoxious cards also.
--
Mr.E

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:46:06 -0500, "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.

Some of the supermarkets around here insist on a card to get sale
prices. One big one had started with a slogan that said "Save even
more" but that was a lie because the sales with the card were no more
than they used to be without the card.

So I got the card, but I certainly didn't tell them who I was, where I
lived, or my phone number. I gave the address 1 Main St. etc.

Later, they abandoned their plans to write to people, so that ended
their excuse for wanting street addresses, but I'll bet they still ask
for them.

Also later, they started accepting the phone number you gave to get
your card, but I didn't remember what I had said. Still later, a
cashier told me the 4 digit number they used whenever they needed one,
and another said that I could also use any 10-digit number. So I use
a different number each time.

OTOH another store told me I couldn't borrow the card from someone
behind me in line. It was no skin off that guy's nose. If anything it
got him more "points" if there are points. The cashier used his own
card for me, or I would have left without buying.


They call it the bonus card. I call it the bogus card, the annoyance
card, the inconvenience card, the nuisance card, and the spy-on-me
card. The cashiers sometimes laugh.


**It would be useful to notify people who bought food later recalled
for salmonella, etc. but no one has stasrted doing that afaik. And
anyhow, real men have gastric juices that can kill and digest
salmonella.

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:34:23 -0800 (PST), Country
wrote:



The worse is K-Mart. There for a while you had to say yes or no to
about ten questions before checking out.

Do you have a rewards card? No.
Do you want to apply for a rewards card? No.
Do you want to put this on your Sears card? No.
Do you have a Sears Card? No
Do you want to apply for a Sears card? No.
And stuff like that.

I finally learned to say "No to all your questions" when they asked
the first question and then the tellers are allowed to stop asking
until you come back again.

Wow. I only go to K-mart to buy slippers, and the last time was last
February or so. They didn't do that to me, but you've prepared me for
it now.

Actually I go there a little more often and woudl go more if the one
near me hadn't closed. Later, they tore it down and built a homedepot

- C-

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
Learn more about Jesus
*www.lds.org
.

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.

cheers
Bob

I got seriously ****ed at my giant eagle when the cashier refused to
accept my card for the out of state lady in line in front of me.

I complained to the cashier, called the main complaint number, who had
a USELESS store employee call me and repeat what the cashier said.

I called the complaint number again and asked for the store manager to
call me back. Same USELESS gal called me back

called complaint number again and said I now had 2 complaints, first
against the stores policy and second against complaint number for
having useless gal call me twice.

store manager called and apologized, said policy is changed i can let
anyone use my card if i want.

i am a PIA fr that store but between gasoline and groceries I spend a
fortune, I have buying power

On 1/14/2011 9:22 PM, mm wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:46:06 -0500, "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.

Some of the supermarkets around here insist on a card to get sale
prices. One big one had started with a slogan that said "Save even
more" but that was a lie because the sales with the card were no more
than they used to be without the card.

So I got the card, but I certainly didn't tell them who I was, where I
lived, or my phone number. I gave the address 1 Main St. etc.

Later, they abandoned their plans to write to people, so that ended
their excuse for wanting street addresses, but I'll bet they still ask
for them.

Also later, they started accepting the phone number you gave to get
your card, but I didn't remember what I had said. Still later, a
cashier told me the 4 digit number they used whenever they needed one,
and another said that I could also use any 10-digit number. So I use
a different number each time.


The local Lowes usually asks for a phone # if paying cash. They told me
they use it for returns if you loose your receipt. I did return
something without the reciept, gave them my phone number, and they gave
me my CASH back. On something just recently, I couldn't find the
reciept, and I remembered they didn't ask for my phone number that time.
Went to return it and they did let me return it, but they gave me gift
card type thing so I had to spend the money again at Lowes. I can take
it or leave it, I don't loose any sleep over it.

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:35:51 -0500, Tony Miklos
wrote:


The local Lowes usually asks for a phone # if paying cash. They told me
they use it for returns if you loose your receipt. I did return
something without the reciept, gave them my phone number, and they gave
me my CASH back. On something just recently, I couldn't find the
reciept, and I remembered they didn't ask for my phone number that time.
Went to return it and they did let me return it, but they gave me gift
card type thing so I had to spend the money again at Lowes. I can take
it or leave it, I don't loose any sleep over it.

I don't want my phone number listed on the FBI list of those who use
hardware.

In article ,
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.


If you want the sale price without being tracked it's easy enough to
use a fictional name and address. Names that appear normal in
writing but sound like an embarrasing or suggestive phrase when spoken
aloud are always fun. Use your imagination.


--
When the game is over, the pawn and the king are returned to the same box.

Larry Wasserman - Baltimore Maryland - lwasserm(a)sdf. lonestar.org

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:42:54 -0800 (PST), 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
Learn more about Jesus
*www.lds.org
.

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.

Whenever I need to give my address online, or I won't get the right
results, like for shopping near me, or tv stations near me, or crimes
committed near me, I used to use a fictitious street number on my
street, but I thought I needed precision, so now I give an address a
couple doors away of people who have been very rude to me and others.

So any junk mail will go to them.

cheers
Bob

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.
--
- Don Kl. )

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:01:36 -0800 (PST), "
wrote:

I got seriously ****ed at my giant eagle when the cashier refused to
accept my card for the out of state lady in line in front of me.

Incredible.

I complained to the cashier, called the main complaint number, who had
a USELESS store employee call me and repeat what the cashier said.

Good for you.

I called the complaint number again and asked for the store manager to
call me back. Same USELESS gal called me back

called complaint number again and said I now had 2 complaints, first
against the stores policy and second against complaint number for
having useless gal call me twice.

triple good for you.

store manager called and apologized, said policy is changed i can let
anyone use my card if i want.

i am a PIA fr that store but between gasoline and groceries I spend a
fortune, I have buying power

Great.


In my last post where I said the cashier at a store like yours, a
Safeway in my case, let me use his card, I'm not sure he did that, and
if he did, he said I couldn't do it again. They're out of business**
and a place that doesn't use cards is in there now. **Although not
because of their use of cards.

On 1/14/2011 11:22 PM, Don Klipstein wrote:


Most store clerks are so young and dronish that I expect few to
recognize any significance to 867-5309.

Also tell them your Wife's name is Jenny.

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:44:18 -0500, "Keith S."
wrote:

On 1/14/2011 11:22 PM, Don Klipstein wrote:


Most store clerks are so young and dronish that I expect few to
recognize any significance to 867-5309.

Also tell them your Wife's name is Jenny.

FLeetwood 4-5789. You can call me up, any old time.

In article ,
Don Klipstein wrote:

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.

I wonder if they'd even notice if someone gave a 555 number.

m

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

On 1/14/2011 8:34 PM, Country wrote:
On Jan 14, 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.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
.

The worse is K-Mart. There for a while you had to say yes or no to
about ten questions before checking out.

Do you have a rewards card? No.
Do you want to apply for a rewards card? No.
Do you want to put this on your Sears card? No.
Do you have a Sears Card? No
Do you want to apply for a Sears card? No.
And stuff like that.

I finally learned to say "No to all your questions" when they asked
the first question and then the tellers are allowed to stop asking
until you come back again.

- C-

You forgot, "Do you want to donate to St. Judes?"

They also ask your age if you buy hunting supplies.
I got asked once buying buck lure.
Woman in back of me damn near fell on the floor laughing when I said I
was born in '65 (one of my sons was born then).
I also lie about my zip code when asked

"Stormin Mormon" wrote in news:igs6uo
:

So, to get a 50 cent discount on a clearance item, I need to
carry their card every day for the rest of my life? Not a
desirable thought.

You can always throw the discounted price worth of pennies on the counter
and walk away. See what happens ...

--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid

LouB wrote:
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.

Been going on for years at most supermarkets.
I do not recall anything that says you have to give them accurate info
since they give you the card on the spot.
If they ask for an email address you may get coupons. I have a
separate gmail account that I give out for these type of things.

"abuse @ riteaid.com " works as an email address.

Frank wrote:

You forgot, "Do you want to donate to St. Judes?"

They also ask your age if you buy hunting supplies.
I got asked once buying buck lure.
Woman in back of me damn near fell on the floor laughing when I said I
was born in '65 (one of my sons was born then).
I also lie about my zip code when asked

Pharmacy tech: "What is your birthday?"

Me: "Are you going to make me look it up? (fishing in wallet for driver's
license)...

"I was there at the time but I didn't write it down...

"What's the name on that prescription? I want to make sure I give you the
correct ID? Was it Alphonse d'Pumpernil? Bottomly le Frescue? or was it,
perhaps, Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George
Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma?..."

---
Officious clerk: "Is there anything I can do to help you?"

Me: "Yes. I've been pulling on my penis for several hours and I think I
broke it. Can you take a look at it and tell me what you think?"

Don Klipstein wrote:

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.


(xxx) 867-5309. You can call, but no promises.

I prefer to give out (xxx) 911-yyyy

---

We have an outgoing line at the office - it is never given out. Occasionaly
some fool will call. If in a frisky mood (almost always), I'll answer with:
"Suicide Prevention Hot-Line - Don't Do It!. Hello? HELLO? HELLO!!! Stay on
the line! I'm sending help. (pause, then to the side...) Hello, 911? This is
Morris at SPH. I have an attempted suicide at (read number off caller ID).
Yes. Four minutes? I'll try to keep him on the line. (louder voice) Sir? Can
you hear me? ... Hello?... Oh, drat! (hang up) "

?
"HeyBub" wrote
Pharmacy tech: "What is your birthday?"

Me: "Are you going to make me look it up? (fishing in wallet for driver's
license)...

"I was there at the time but I didn't write it down...

"What's the name on that prescription? I want to make sure I give you the
correct ID? Was it Alphonse d'Pumpernil? Bottomly le Frescue? or was it,
perhaps, Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George
Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma?..."

Been in the hospital lately? To avoid drum mixups they ask the same
question every time, even if they just gave you a medication five minutes
ago. They also scan your barcode.

?
"Stormin Mormon" wrote
So, to get a 50 cent discount on a clearance item, I need to
carry their card every day for the rest of my life? Not a
desirable thought.

Nah, just get the barcode tattooed on your ass and show it to them.

I used to shop at Linen 'n Things a lot, and the cashiers always asked
for my phone # when I checked out.

I ALWAYS gave them the store's #, which is printed on the coupons they
were always mailing me.

Not ONCE did a cashier even flinch. You'd think one of them would
recognize the phone # at their own job.

No wonder they're out of business...

Could be wrong number. Or, someone with caller ID calls back
on the "call party back". Still, your schtick sounds
comical.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


"HeyBub" wrote in message
m...

We have an outgoing line at the office - it is never given
out. Occasionaly
some fool will call. If in a frisky mood (almost always),
I'll answer with:
"Suicide Prevention Hot-Line - Don't Do It!. Hello? HELLO?
HELLO!!! Stay on
the line! I'm sending help. (pause, then to the side...)
Hello, 911? This is
Morris at SPH. I have an attempted suicide at (read number
off caller ID).
Yes. Four minutes? I'll try to keep him on the line. (louder
voice) Sir? Can
you hear me? ... Hello?... Oh, drat! (hang up) "

Yes, I was a hospital patient December 01, after
my truck wreck. I'd rather be asked repeatedly,
than given the injectible diuretic meant for the
old lady in the next room with the swollen ankles.

Less comical. I used to visit an elderly lady in the
nursing home. One day she gave me a check for
$510. I asked what that was for..... she wanted me
to cash it, and bring her the money. Keep ten bucks
for gas.

The bank refused the check NSF. I brought it back
to her. A couple weeks later, she asked me why she
had a check made out to me for $510 in her check
book. Find out she was getting the wrong meds, and
she was quite confused for several weeks.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
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"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
...

Been in the hospital lately? To avoid drum mixups they ask
the same
question every time, even if they just gave you a medication
five minutes
ago. They also scan your barcode.

Or my left arm, and tell them I'm Jewish? Imply they are a
bunch of Nazis. (Who don't know how to use WD-40.)

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
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"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
...
?
"Stormin Mormon" wrote
So, to get a 50 cent discount on a clearance item, I need
to
carry their card every day for the rest of my life? Not a
desirable thought.

Nah, just get the barcode tattooed on your ass and show it
to them.

Excellent. You'd think......

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
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"Shaun Eli" wrote in
message
...
I used to shop at Linen 'n Things a lot, and the cashiers
always asked
for my phone # when I checked out.

I ALWAYS gave them the store's #, which is printed on the
coupons they
were always mailing me.

Not ONCE did a cashier even flinch. You'd think one of them
would
recognize the phone # at their own job.

No wonder they're out of business...

On 01/15/2011 09:50 AM, Shaun Eli wrote:
I used to shop at Linen 'n Things a lot, and the cashiers always asked
for my phone # when I checked out.

I ALWAYS gave them the store's #, which is printed on the coupons they
were always mailing me.

Not ONCE did a cashier even flinch. You'd think one of them would
recognize the phone # at their own job.

No wonder they're out of business...

just give out (your area code) 867-5309.

I doubt there's any cashiers old enough to get it.

nate

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replace "roosters" with "cox" to reply.
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Sears got so pushy pushing credit cards the line took forever. I said
heres my cash, dont want card.

She asked again I said CALL STORE MANAGER NOW.

the manager arrived I asked him are you a merchant? or a credit
cared company?

Well we offer cards.

Well I have been here for 30 minutes just trying to check out behind
all those signing up for cards, Told him the merchandise is yours.
have extra employees so you dont slow the line, and lose sales like
mine

400 bucks worth of tools, left at the register.

I went to home depot and saved over 50 bucks

sears is now the highest priced place to buy anything. I quit shopping
there...

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.

Larry W wrote:
In article ,
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.


If you want the sale price without being tracked it's easy enough to
use a fictional name and address. Names that appear normal in
writing but sound like an embarrasing or suggestive phrase when spoken
aloud are always fun. Use your imagination.

That works, until you use a check or credit card. Then they have you identified.

In article ,
"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.

Every supermarket has these cards here, virtually every hardware store
and drugstore as well. We're being trained to surrender our privacy. Two
years ago, feeling testy after working a few 80 hr. weeks in a row, I
was in a supermarket buying their largest bottle of laundry detergent,
and I didn't have a "club card." I told the cashier I wanted her to give
me the discount anyway, which amounted to ~ $5, and she refused.

Our discussion became ugly quickly, and I demanded a manager. By now
everyone's attention was on the situation, and the manager arrived
quickly, determined to "take charge" and deal with the disturbance (me.)

"Is there a problem?" he queried in the snottiest tone he could muster.

"Yes," I fumed in full voice (and my voice carries,) "There is a
problem. I don't want to be ****ed in the ass at the cash register just
because I don't want to join your stupid ****ing club."

He "86'ed" me. Gosh.

On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:07:33 -0500, Nate Nagel wrote:

On 01/15/2011 09:50 AM, Shaun Eli wrote:
I used to shop at Linen 'n Things a lot, and the cashiers always asked
for my phone # when I checked out.

I ALWAYS gave them the store's #, which is printed on the coupons they
were always mailing me.

Not ONCE did a cashier even flinch. You'd think one of them would
recognize the phone # at their own job.

No wonder they're out of business...

just give out (your area code) 867-5309.

Or (212) 736-5000

I doubt there's any cashiers old enough to get it.

Yup!

On 1/15/2011 8:50 AM, Shaun Eli wrote:
I used to shop at Linen 'n Things a lot, and the cashiers always asked
for my phone # when I checked out.

I ALWAYS gave them the store's #, which is printed on the coupons they
were always mailing me.

Not ONCE did a cashier even flinch. You'd think one of them would
recognize the phone # at their own job.

No wonder they're out of business...

I've been asked for my zip-code at the checkout lane and I always reply
90210. :-)

TDD

On 1/15/2011 9:07 AM, Nate Nagel wrote:
On 01/15/2011 09:50 AM, Shaun Eli wrote:
I used to shop at Linen 'n Things a lot, and the cashiers always asked
for my phone # when I checked out.

I ALWAYS gave them the store's #, which is printed on the coupons they
were always mailing me.

Not ONCE did a cashier even flinch. You'd think one of them would
recognize the phone # at their own job.

No wonder they're out of business...

just give out (your area code) 867-5309.

I doubt there's any cashiers old enough to get it.

nate


Damn you! Now that freaking song is playing in my head nonstop! :-)

TDD

On 2011-01-15, Smitty Two wrote:

because I don't want to join your stupid ****ing club."

Jes gotta be smarter than the system. Even if it requires a couple
tries!

I recall one market required using their club card to receive their
deep discounts. So, I made out a bogus card w/ bogus identity. I was
a bit embarrassed after I discovered the clerks addressed me by my
club card name, loudly proclaiming out loud for all to hear, "Thank
you for shopping with us, Mr. Numbnuts". So, I promptly lost the old
card and filled out the form for a new one. Now the clerks smirkingly
address me as Mr. President.

nb