Sadly enough that several stores in this country started doing the same until enough privacy aware people noticed and made a fuss about it.
Lazycog
joined 1 year ago
Yeah at no point was I mad at the clerk and didn't show it at all that I was boiling inside, because its just their job and they have no say in it.
Haven't tried to say I don't have a number or come up with a fake number, but read this in the thread earlier and will probably give it a try next time!
When I was younger and lived at home we had "family accounts". When I went to a store I picked up the "family card" and used that. So similar experience!
Now I know! I was positively surprised when they didn't ask the follow-up question, but I see now they have been trained to not ask it at all.
Damn, should've tried that! Thanks for the tip!
I can imagine that the tactic used on me works - same as making the hide/close/disagree button small. Dark Patterns in real life.
Agreed. It used be worse here - at some point merchants wanted your social security number to create a unique customer identifier.
I will not describe how angry I felt hearing a shoe store clerk ask for my social security number (again, did not lash out at the clerk), but I was angry.
That thankfully did not last long (iirc).
That is just it. An app for everything, when it could just be a website you login to if you absolutely must have an account for something.
I'm glad I'm getting some peer support here and glad to hear similar stories.
I can relate, and agree that maybe the cashier found it just as awkward. Tried to be as nice as possible because I know its a tough job!
Thank you and you too, fellow privacy enjoyer!
IIRC two letter domains are reserved for country specific domains, the non-country domains start with three letters.
You made me question myself now, was I being unreasonable?
Didn't even think that the clerk might have been just trying to help me out, I felt like this was a smart sales & marketing psychological trick to give up and go the way of least resistance to get me to sign up (obviously not by the clerk directly, but as part of their training on how to deal with customers).
But either way, thankfully I was polite and nice about it. I might have become too cynical about everything regarding my private info in the last few years.