Something Useful, For You!

[foxgrrl]

At Safeway, they have those privacy invading Customer discount cards — Which let you pay the original price for an item, without the markup penalty for people who don't want their purchases tracked.

Anyway, if you don't have your card with you (or don't have a card at all), you can enter your phone number. I used to enter random local numbers, statistically, most of them belong to someone who shops at Safeway. Note: Hypothetically, it is possible to use Safeway to do the equivalent of a CNA lookup [reverse phone number lookup] when you have a phone number, and you want to find out who it belongs to. Not that I would advocate such a thing *cough*.

Anyway, I discovered that someone, a certain Mr. or Ms. Valued Customer, used (800)555-1212 for their phone number. I've been using this number, and paying cash, for quite a while. And it seems that many other people are as well, considering that Valued Customer has earned four free sandwiches from the Deli, and a 10¢ per Gallon discount on gas (where available), and US$2 off their next purchase of Deli Signature Soup.

Comments

[centauress.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's intentional. It's the card that they have at the manager's desk in case you've forgotten and they know you're a valued customer (or a grumpy one). They specifically don't match their mailings to the numbers or vice versa to not make their customers upset.

I try to use the same card, though we have two or three, because I want them to know that I specifically come to their store to buy certain brands and products.