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One person doing it one time is not going to be a problem. But the policy is there to prevent it from becoming something that occurs more than once. Each time someone uses another persons card, it introduces an error in the system.
That's not the purpose of the card....
.... and as a result, you're completely wrong here.
Letting people use other's shopper's club cards completely destroys the system. Each time introduces error. Sharing shopper's club cards eliminates the usefulness of the system. There's a clear connection which you fail to see because you don't know why they have a shopper's club to begin with.
Jiawei Han PhD @ University of Illinois has some published work in this area that you should check out. You'll learn quite a bit and realize how silly your complaint is.
As a shopper, I couldn't care less if their data mining is corrupted. Like I said before, I just use a random phone number that often has good fuel rewards. I haven't seen my actual Kroger Plus Card in at least ten years and I'm sure I used a phony name, address, and telephone number to get it, so the telephone number wouldn't work.
They would only ask for your license if you planned on cashing checks, all you had to do was say that was not going to be your intention. Problem solved. All the time you spent going back & forth with them, you could have already had it filled out and leaving.
Shop Rite
Stop and Shop
Waldbaums (part of the A&P company)
PathMark
ALL of these stores will allow you to use the store's card if you don't have one or don't want to use yours. All of them (except Stop and Shop), you can ask the cashier to key in your phone number and your card info will come up.
I know one thing about the Shop Rite I go to (since it's my favorite store). It's not a good idea to let the person in front of you use your card. They only allow 4 of an item at the sale price. You can do multiple transactions of 4 but they have to be at different registers. Sooo, if the person in front of you buys 4 jars of Ragu at the sale price and you let them use your card and then you also have 4 jars of Ragu, you won't get the sale price.
I don't know why they do that but I think it's to deter the "extreme coupon" thing where people will come to the one register with 5 carts full of stuff and try to do 5 separate transactions of all the sale items. It's also to get you to come back to the store if you want a lot of a particular sale item.
As a shopper, I couldn't care less if their data mining is corrupted. Like I said before, I just use a random phone number that often has good fuel rewards. I haven't seen my actual Kroger Plus Card in at least ten years and I'm sure I used a phony name, address, and telephone number to get it, so the telephone number wouldn't work.
The OP (and others) are complaining about the store's policies without understanding why they exist. The The system still works if you give them a fake name, address and phone number. They aren't trying to associate your behavior to your identity.
Admittedly off topic as it is when people on C-D correct another posters spelling or Englis, which is something I do not do.
I still am alert when lack of proofreading shows up in supposedly professional writng.
From the link....this one is amusing.
". That’s when local health department officials called, seeking her shopper card numbers.
[LEFT]“They went to the hospital and they got her info,” says Erica Duerr, a nurse who had just given birth to her second child. “They were actually able to track down where it came from.”"
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The OP (and others) are complaining about the store's policies without understanding why they exist. The The system still works if you give them a fake name, address and phone number. They aren't trying to associate your behavior to your identity.
I think you do not understand the purpose of the policy. Your mind is stuck on data-mining and you think every store owners' is as well. The next time I'm in the Shop Rite in my area, i'm going to ask the manager the reason for their policy. But you'll probably just think, 'The manager doesn't really know.' Because you know more than he/she.
Again, and this simple to understand, if they put a phone number lookup in place, that helps the data-mining effort. If they have a store card they automatically use for those without a card, it would have no effect on data-mining - it would be the same as no card at all. So the reason has to be something other than data-mining.
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