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supermarket club cards (lemmings.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Hey I'm sure you all know how sketchy club cards are for collecting your data. But I do begrudge paying slightly higher prices just for valuing my privacy. I was wondering if there was any way to sign up to these things whilst limiting the data they have access to. Would it be enough to sign up with fake details and never use their apps? Or should I just give up on this all together? Thanks!

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[–] 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If they let you give them a phone number, I always use (in the USA) my area code plus 867-5309. So far it has always work. Younger checkout people don't see anything unusual and older ones get a laugh out of it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    What happens if someone else beats you to that and uses your fuel points?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    That's part of the fun. Sometimes you get someone else's fuel points too. It's kind of like gambling whenever you fuel up. Over the long term it probably evens out, or at least I feel like I get a fuel discount pretty often with it so I don't worry about it. Worse case I'm helping someone else save a few bucks, it doesn't feel like a problem.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I found a few stores that dont allow redeeming fuel with that phone number. Makes me think they set the account up for people to use, or the poor person who actually has that phone number got upset after their fuel points kept getting stolen

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's worth what... $1-2?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Yes that’s largely the joke, although I did once get $13 off in a single fill-up. It was the early days of the pandemic so between medicine refills and stocking up on groceries we’d maxed it out to $1/off per gallon. Combined with the plunge in gas prices it was the first time I’d paid under $1/gallon since the turn of the millennium.

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