Ok folks,
Here's my first gripe. I will not shop at a particular big chain grocery store due to several reasons. But there is one additional reason why I think a decision they made is STUPID! I have to log-on online with my "loyalty/discount savings pass-card" thing and download "specialty" coupons that are supposedly "just for you (me)" even though you've wasted ink and paper for the advertisement that comes in the mail. Just add some freaking dotted lines and make them coupons. What a WASTE! If I want to go to your grocery store and you expect me to have to go online to download specific coupons onto my account and present that damn card to you or punch in my phone number so as to access said coupons, I think it's a lot of Freaking work to save a measly how many dollars or even just cents!? And secondly, I fear this company is keeping track of this information which can be used to target me for a myriad of other products and crap that I probably don't want or need. But suddenly, I will think I need them because I'll start receiving email, junk mail, and possibly spam to inform me how much I need these things (not!).
So, you know what I do? I don't shop there unless absolutely necessary and I use paper coupons AND on top of all that, I use my parent's phone number because I don't even have a freaking ( insert name of big chain supermarket here) card. So ha ha, and sorry. Ha Ha to you big chain grocery store because you don't know me and my purchases (yes, I understand there is video surveillance, but come on- you know what I'm talking about.) And sorry to my folks because if they keep getting crap in their mail and offered discounts or spam on stuff they don't EVER purchase, I'm sorry for that. And its all my fault because I'm punching in your phone number almost everywhere I go. Additionally, there are also 2 large chain pharmacies I go to and I don't have their disco/loyalty card either. However I do hope that by using my folk's phone number all the time they get some benefits out of it.
Sincerely,
jjknows
Hey jj,
ReplyDeleteFunny post. I feel exactly the same and try desperately to stay out of their statistics and targeted advertising.
What do you say about my luck though: I asked an employee at Safeway (I'm not afraid to tell where, why are you?) for a loyalty card and she, being probably bored, just gave it to me together with the form to fill in and return later!
Obviously I haven't filled/returned anything but since then I am using the card the same as anyone else but anonymously.
One the same note: By happening I have looked at the receipt after shopping at Nobhill (here I am again), where I paid cash and I don't have any loyalty card whatsoever. Imagine it said: you saved today xx.yy $
So how much bullshit can this "saving by using loyalty cards" scheme can be?