Posted on 12/13/2016 1:25:01 AM PST by BunnySlippers
I'm almost retired!
Privacy is not what it used to be for sure. From grocery cards that are ostensibly for discounts (but are actually used by the store to track purchasing) to the ‘Would you like an emailed receipt?’ question that pops up more and more. We freely give our info to more people than we realize.
The best defense is probably to have a slightly paranoid mind, though not enough to be impolite.
I produce a local bbq sauce...so I was looking to do some business. It turns out that the broker adds 35% & Wegs adds 40%...and they dictate what the shelf price is - which all but dictates your margin. It turns out that I would be making the least in the delivery chain...something like .10 cents a jar....no thanks..My margin in self marketing is about $2.50 a jar.
Product prices are typically higher on everything - and they data mine with their "shopper club" discounts - which track purchases specific to you.
nice place, but if you watch dollars, this is not the place.
And generally, when they show up - any mom and pop in the region is crushed and goes belly up
Here in PA they began selling beer (good heavens, NOT wine!!) in grocery stores several years. PA government still thinks it must bluestocking us until we turn purple.
And they card us each and every time at grocery stores even if only buying one six pack. I asked why and explained it gives the government much too much information about us. The grocery stores don’t care. I try to buy with cash now at little mom and pops.
Sort of like the VA. Though there is a vast amount of medical literature touting the health benefits of 2-4 oz of red wine (resveratrol, you know) drunk daily by adults, the VA considers anyone who drinks an alcoholic drink daily to be an alcoholic.
I got carded a couple of months ago. Gave the waitress a $50 tip.
As a tel co repairman in the 70’s I remember a woman calling in and complaining I called her Ma’am.
I told the boss should a called her loony
I referred to all females as ma’am...just the way I was raised.
Mom was “Yes Ma’am” and Dad was “Yes sir”
Heaven forbid you put out a card table and sell your goods! Not legal anywhere I know. If you make a food product your kitchen must be inspected and graded by the Heath Department.
Woo woo! Cool!
They’re required to do it and as with all government regulations it leaves no room for common sense.
Not entirely true in Tennessee...you can sell your home-baked goods at a farmer’s market if you display the following sign: ‘These products have been made in a private home not licensed or inspected.’ Always plenty of breads and pastries available at my local market. Yum!
Many stores these days require the clerk to input a B Date from a DMV License for an alcohol purchase.
Most clerks with common sense will make up a date for folks that look legal but some rely on the “rule” and ask for the card for a date to input.
There is a big chain grocery around these parts that you must show a license no mater what age or no beer.
I think its a CYA for them as it is Dum-Ass New England
I thought most states were like CA, in which the grocery makes you use their card for ‘discounts”. If you want to buy a $1.50 item, you will pay $3.00 for it UNLESS you use their card.
I can put up with tricking them on this but it’s be en force for 20 years now. You give up and get the card.
Te only work around is buying at the luxury groceries. In LA, it’s Gelson’s ... perfect food and perfect service for just a little more than it’s worth. No card.
maybe he wanted your address ?
Ever think of that?
I like that idea! Here we have no option. It’s why the local lemonade stand is gone!
Wow, never heard of that! What a pain!
I think number 35 and 38 have covered that. I have bought and sold my home twice over so my date was not current,
But you are correct, it is and should be a concern.
Tennessee is the only state where I have seen such a waiver for ‘home produced baked goods’. There may be others.
I have no doubt you are right ... just not in California. ;o)
The last time I got carded was from buying paint at WalMart.
I needed a little can of (brush, not spray) paint for a project, and the checkout girl apparently saw a message on the screen when she scanned it. She looked at the can with a vacant look on her face and asked “what is this?”
Either she had never seen a can of paint before, or she couldn’t believe WalMart would require an age check for it.
and rightly so - I have mine professionally bottled, bar coded and nutritional labled...
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