Those stupid fucking, moronic, useless, goddamn grocey "value" cards.

[Problem Child]

Jesus Effing Christ.

"Do you have your Lucky value card with you, Sir?"

"Sir, just swipe your Von's cheeperdeel ID right here."

"Oh...you mean you don't have your Kroger save-a-lot-O-money thingamabob with you?" *in a loud voice to everyone in line behind me* "Does Anyone have a value card for this dumbass?"

Every fucking store I go to has their own motherfucking little card you have to swipe, or else your groceries end up costing you 8% more.

"Well, sir, you saved $11.03 today off your $139.65 total. Don't you just have a big hard-on for us now! Have a nice day."

Yeah. Fuck off. Now I have like four extra cards I have to keep stuffed in my friggin' wallet.

Why can't they just all get rid of the stupid cards and lower their prices a little? What would be wrong with that? Should I have to pay a different and higher price just because I'm a first time shopper or am resisting joing their little socialist grocery club?

I'm pissed.

 

[WaxNWane]

Your spelling buddy sez:

Grocery

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

To get one you aren't exactly required to give them your address or any demographic information, and I don't. (They don't tell you this, of course. They want to send you direct mail based on info gotten from tracking your purchases. At least I avoid all that.)

My local Big-5 store always asks for my address, as if it were perfectly acceptable to ask for such a thing. I'm buying fucking batteries, and they need to know where I live?

And my haircutting place always wants my phone number "for their records". I never make appointments and always just walk in. What is it they need to "track"?

What annoys me the most is the look clerks now give me when I refuse to give them personal information, as if I'm being difficult. It's become NORMAL to insist that you help them with their marketing now.

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

The true beauty of those cards is that its not about saving you money. Its about you giving them personal information in the application which they then sell to marketers, along with your buying habits.

 

[Problem Child]

What annoys me the most is the look clerks now give me when I refuse to give them personal information, as if I'm being difficult. It's become NORMAL to insist that you help them with their marketing now.

It just burns me that you have to have a little card to pay the normal everyday price, because that's what it is. If you don't have the card you are, in effect, paying a penalty.

And the personal info thing? Radio shack is the worst. I had to jump the counter and wrestle a guy last week to buy a battery recharger without giving him my mother's maiden name and underwear size.

Actually, now I look forward to them asking me so I can make a big stink about it and make them feel like nosy little intrusive jerks, which is what they are.

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

Yeah, I hate them too. I would not shop at Safeway because they have their Safeway Club Card. Then QFC went the same route - so I stopped shopping there. Now I shop at Albertsons for the most part. They always have some amount they circle on the bottom of the reciept which is supposedly how much I saved by buying stuff that was on sale, but at least they don't ask for some stupid card.

I personally think it is a scam; they institute these card savings programs, and make it seem like you save money by using them, but the prices overall are about the same as before. Then those poor slobs who don't have or want the stupid cards wind up paying more, and the store makes more. In effect, it raises the prices. I have noticed that quite a number of items at QFC are substantially more than they were before the savings card came out.

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

The true beauty of those cards is that its not about saving you money. Its about you giving them personal information in the application which they then sell to marketers, along with your buying habits.

Actually, they already know my shopping habits; when I buy groceries I use my debit card. They get my name from the debit card automatically, and the computers store what I buy. They may not know where I live or my phone number, but they know which store I shop at.

 

[caligula]

Those cards do suck! I thick I have atleast 20 cards in my wallet, pretty son you have to have a card of some sort just to be aloud to breath!

 

[Private Vasquez]

Even when one uses those cards, the receipt says "You saved $0 today." Yipee!

 

[WaxNWane]

Even when one uses those cards, the receipt says "You saved $0 today." Yipee!

I learned this the hard way - 40's & Ho-cakes aren't covered by the card.

Fascists.

 

[HeavyStick]

The next SOB who asks me where I live when I shop, I will ask him/her the same and write it down. Fuck 'em

 

[Guest]

Swiping my MVP card gives me a girly-woody!

 

[*bratcat*]

 

[koalabear]

The next SOB who asks me where I live when I shop, I will ask him/her the same and write it down. Fuck 'em

May we have your zip code please?

 

[HeavyStick]

when you quoted me you missed the key words "when i shop"

 

[lovetoread]

I have so many cards,its not funny.

Like my cvs card. It now tells me how many times I have bought certain things on my receipt.

Wouldnt I know what I have already bought?

Should the cashier know how many times I bought pantyhose or benedryl this year?

 

[Hamletmaschine]

I don't think they have these cards at the discount tobacco and liquor store.

 

[Mischka]

See, now I use these situations to have a little fun. When they ask for my zip code, I tell them 99801 (Juneau, Alaska). My phone is 857-5309 (cheesy, but it works on the young ones). I lke to consider myself a little blip on the demographic charts.

 

[sunstruck]

"Welcome to Radio Shak may I have your Last name please?"

"Gerbersmytcich"

"Annnnd how do spell that?"

"Like is sounds. (friendly smile)"

"Oook. Your phone number?"

"867-5309"

"And your address?"

"1313 Mockingbird Lane" (friendly smile)

"Thank you. That'll be $9.42, do enjoy your double AA batteries".


Dumb kid.

 

[Guest]

See, now I use these situations to have a little fun. When they ask for my zip code, I tell them 99801 (Juneau, Alaska). My phone is 857-5309 (cheesy, but it works on the young ones). I lke to consider myself a little blip on the demographic charts.

I do the same, you fluffy little cumslut.

 

[phrodeau]

Does anybody have a local grocery store that's willing to stock something you'd like them to, so you don't have to schlepp to the megasupermarket just for that item?

Wish I did.

 

[roxie]

Does anybody have a local grocery store that's willing to stock something you'd like them to, so you don't have to schlepp to the megasupermarket just for that item?

Wish I did.

As a matter of fact, I do! I set the sales ads for both of our stores and I do some/all of the ordering of the groceries. Many times I've been asked to order something special or start carrying something. If our warehouse carries it, I have always found a place for it on our shelves for them. Or arranged for them to buy it wholesale. But then these are also small town grocery stores. We don't have scanners at either store and the main one doesn't take credit cards (at the end of the year, our other store will stop accepting them as well).

 

[Weird Harold]

The true beauty of those cards is that its not about saving you money. Its about you giving them personal information in the application which they then sell to marketers, along with your buying habits.

The cards are indeed a hassle, but they do just a bit more with the information gathered.

I've noticed that stores that use the cards (and discount stores affiliated with stores that use cards) have slowly rearranged their stores so that things most people usually buy at the same time are spread out through the store so you have to search through more merchandise to find what you normally buy.

Getting a discount via the cards is a halfhearted attempt to "pay" you for the marketing data.

 

[Oasis690]

The New Discover Cards

Super saver cards are the most annoying scam to hit shopping in years, they track what we buy and make money doing it, in return we save a buck here and there?

I refused to participate for years until such a large percentage of items I regularly buy are now on sale every week, but only with the card.

For the last few months whenever a clerk asks for a card I say, "My George Orwell card?"
Not one person has acknowledged they understand that reference.

Has anyone noticed those stupid new Discover cards that come on a handy little keychain? What good is that? Who wants another fucking keychain? Maybe that would be ok if all your other cards were the same stupid shape and fit in the damn thing, but otherwise it is a complete gimmick. The worst part is there are probably tons of idiots opening Discover card accounts to get a specially shaped card.

 

[Weird Harold]

Re: The New Discover Cards

Super saver cards are the most annoying scam to hit shopping in years, they track what we buy and make money doing it, in return we save a buck here and there?

Actually, they're the SECOND most annoying scam -- REBATES ar number one! At least you have a choice of when to use the cards. However, if you buy something major, the rebate amount is often a significant discount and you HAVE to send them your mailing address to get it!

I haven't seen the new discover card yet -- they may hve sent me a "pre-approved application" but if they did, my shredder ate it before I read it.