That's cool

I value my time (as in time spent walking around there) much higher
than that and I certainly don't let trivial little things like a
loyalty card cost me my time. Your loss, not theirs.

 

It's not legal tender in England, so he's not obliged to take it.

 

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Not really, it still makes me smile when I think of it now. Well worth a
small time investment.

 

"If in doubt, blame the kids"

 

It's not legal tender in Scotland, either.

 

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

 

In all honesty, I haven't got a fucking clue, I keep meaning to just
remove the whole thing and never actually do it.

 

I deliberately didn't say who sent it out and I'm not about to do so
now but if you suspect your son has been sending out material you
wouldn't want to receive then you need to explain that his only form
of entertainment from now on is masturbation.

 

Won't tenderizer help?

 

I'd have at least waited until they'd put the contents of the trolley
through the till.

 

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About half of it was.

 

A couple of years ago, Somerfields[1] were doing a lot of special offer
prices that were only available to cardholders. So, I'd nip up the town for
a bottle of peas or something, and it would be on a two-for-less offer. So
I'd grab two, take them to the checkout, and it would be full price because
I hadn't my card with me. "Oh right. I'll just have one, then." So they'd
have to get a supervisor to void the transaction, redo with one, and put the
other one back on the shelf. After a while, the checkout operators started
keeping a spare card on the till to swipe through. A little later, the
whole card thing faded away.

[1]Might have been Morrisons. The store was originally Safeway, became
Morrisons, got sold to Somerfields, and closed just before Xmas. It's
currently being converted to an Aldi...

 

Cash, see, that's yer answer.

Or are they going to phase that out too, one they've come for the
cheques?

 

Doesn't matter anyway; his bank would happily accept it.
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Naah, that's just paranioa

More to the point is that it wouldn't provide any meaningful data -
they wouldn't be able to get (or store) your address just from CC
details (data protection act) and as such any information wcouldn't
reliably be tied to a customer. Plus, of course, CC numbers change
quite frequently, so the typical life-span of such data would only be
a couple of years anyway.

And they have a hard enough time making good use of the loyalty card
data anyway - it's all very hit & miss really, and in fact the main
areas in which it's used are to identify spending (i.e. product)
patterns among particular population groups, rather than attempting to
target individual customers.

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There's a chain of camping shops, Go Outdoors, who do it.

You get a card for a quid a year, and I don't recall it actually
needing registering. But it means you can buy anything in store at
the marked prices. Otherwise you pay about 25% more.

 

I do, but I was being lazy. "He's not obliged to take it" still stands.

 

He's not obliged to take English notes either.

 

"... their acceptability as a means of payment is essentially a matter
for agreement between the parties involved."

So, he didn't agree.

 

OK, since we're both working towards the same point, I'll go and find
an argument elsewhere.