I refuse to use Apps as well—same reasoning as you.
In the old days McDonalds was cheap and did not demand to snoop into my life to offer deals.
They obviously do not want me as a customer—fine with me.
“They obviously do not want me as a customer—fine with me.”
And there it is right there. They have some idea we do not have the right to just say no and not buy it. Even society frowns on those who do not go with the flow and capitulate to the trend, you are crazy if you don’t get the app to save five bucks. I have actually had clerks tell me “But you have to get and use the app or I can’t sell it to you”.
Fine... Goodbye... And I won’t be back again. And I haven’t and won’t.
If we don’t start standing our ground against this social engineering it will become mandatory across the board, it will enslave us. And that is when we are going to be absolutely sorry we did not when we should have. By then it will be too late to go back.