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longboy wrote:

resedit wrote:

Every time, every freaking time I call round table for pizza delivery - they want my phone number and address. Almost makes me want to buy frozen - is there no privacy anymore?

Can I just say thanks for reminding me how much I miss RTP? I wish they'd have them in Colorado

I really really miss the Smokehouse Combo and Maui Zaui. I can't afford to eat there anymore.

Reason: It helps them figure out where their products are going, so they can stock their stores better.  That way you don't have to special order all the time, and everybody saves money.  Many retailers do this.

And its not like their strip searching you so they can come offer you candles in your sleep.  Why not give them your zip code?  It obviously helps them in some way and I'd like to think we as a society are not so snooty as to make a fuss just to "be within our rights."

Other retailers ask name and number so they can keep a record of the sale on file, incase you lose your receipt and need it for something.  They're legally not allowed to sell that information.  I can see how some would rather not give out a phone number, but your ZIP CODE?? come on people, lets get rational.

MacBoy4139 wrote:

Zip code also helps retailers open new stores closer to where the people that are spending the most money.  You'd be surprised at the distance some people will go to for an Apple Store.

OK - would everyone please go to an apple store, buy something expensive, and give them 96003 for the zip code?

Thanks.

resedit wrote:

OK - would everyone please go to an apple store, buy something expensive, and give them 96003 for the zip code?

Thanks.

be happy to.
right after they either build a store less than 2.5 hours from me or at least build one in Louisiana.

driving all the way thru houston to get to an apple store is the most painful part.
if someone could just use a tactical nuke and take out everything inside the 610 loop, it wouldn't be so bad.

lagamorph wrote:

Ah, geeze, macnuke, you go all the way to the Galleria for the Apple Store????? I hurt for ya, I really do. I live close to FM 1960 and IH 45 and I HATE going to the Galleria area. There's an Apple store in the mall in the Woodlands, but come to think of it, that wouldn't help you much, I guess, 'cause you probably take IH 10 through Houston. Dang! I hurt for you, man.

Just so you know, there's one in Memorial City Mall now too.

resedit wrote:

MacBoy4139 wrote:

Zip code also helps retailers open new stores closer to where the people that are spending the most money.  You'd be surprised at the distance some people will go to for an Apple Store.

OK - would everyone please go to an apple store, buy something expensive, and give them 96003 for the zip code?

Thanks.

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justine wrote:

Just wait til you go to the store and try to buy any meds that happen to have pseudo ephedrine in them, and then they tell you that you can't purchase them unless you show your license. And not just show it. They take it somewhere and do something with it. I can't imagine stores having access to a Fed database, but they could be tracking it themselves and notifying the feds to comply with the new law.

How's that for big brother?

Relax, they are not putting you in a gov't database or pulling your information up from said database. The pharamacies are forced (trust me they DON'T want to deal with this nonsense) to simply write down your DL number in case someone needs to do a confirmation of who is buying sudafed and such products in large amounts. The pharmacits think it is ridiculous too.

It's a frigging Pain in the Butt!!!!!! Less than 5% of the US population is hooked on meth, but because of them I have to go through more crap to get Actifed than I do to get a case of liquor! I have to plan ahead just to keep Actifed in the house so I can sleep at night! I can buy all the damn beer I want, but I can't buy more than 3 boxes of Actifed per month! Alcohol causes more deaths than meth does! I can walk into any bar or restaurant and get my fill of alcohol without producing an ID, but I can't buy a 24 count package of Actifed without ID! It's absolutely moronic!!!!! And, no one asked me if I thought this was a good idea. They just DID IT!

Changing the subject, I thought Fort Worth was bigger than that. I would have guessed 1.5 million. But, you know, (gasp) Dalllllllas is well (gasp) Dalllllas! I mean, like, you know, if you don't live in (gasp) Dalllllas, then, like, you know, you just ain't got no culture! (gasp) Dallllas is the only civilized city outside, of, like, Paris, France!!!!! You know, you can't expect the fine civilized citizens of (gasp) Dallllas to, like, be inconvenienced by not having everything within reach of their, you know, manicured nails!

My friends' dad has a safeway card. My friend, and the majority of his friends (including myself) just punch in his father's home number. Throws off any demographics, and lets all of us get the better prices.

bratboy wrote:

If you're not using the discount 'card' for your grocery store, you're probably getting ripped off.  Stores that have them tie most of their discounts to the use of the card.

Maybe the paranoid folks aren't aware of this, but as far as I know you can just take the card and not fill out the accompanying paperwork.  I know at my local CVS they simply scan a new one that's sitting there if I say I've forgotten mine.

I don't know if that applies to B&N (I'm unsure as to whether the poster is referring to a credit card or a discount card)....

The B&N card is a for a fee card if i recall correctly.

When my friends and I moved to Washington DC to begin our off campus semester, we kept getting asked by the stores we shopped at if we wanted to sign up for their card (the discount variety not credit cards).  We didn't want junk mail, etc. but we did want the discounts.  So we invented a man.  We called him Bud Healy.  Bud Healy had a random address in a random city in Maryland.  We gave him a random phone number.  We got the discount and didn't have to worry about any... junk.

I think we ended up looking up what was at the address we listed on the applications.  It ended up being a community park.