You know. We don’t want to ask either, we are literally forced into doing it by the higher-ups.
Newsflash, Caroline doesn’t give a shit and more than likely doesn’t want to ask for it in the first place.
You can refuse.
My company cancelled their loyalty card last year, but have just decided to go for data capture and I’m fucking livid about it.
KPIs are the stupidest shit in the world, or at least the way companies choose and implement them are. I don’t understand* how the people that enforce them think they are a good idea, they use shops too and I guarantee they say no to email capture/bags/batteries etc when asked. (*The only explanation is that head offices think they are above everyone and the general public are too stupid to say no….)
On behalf of all retail workers, we are sorry, we don’t want to be asking this shit and we don’t get any bonus for doing so, but if we don’t we get some jumped up little Hitler who does get bonuses getting on our back, telling us we are shit because you didn’t need a reusable shopper for that £1 pen you bought.
Last week mountain warehouse asked me for it, I said to them this definitely won’t result in me getting any marketing emails, absolutely not I was told it’s just for the receipt.
Just looked at my emails and have 5 marketing ads from mountain warehouse in the past week, never had any before.
I just ask if this will effect if I can buy something or not and if it does I just leave. I had this shit when I tried to buy a shrimp from a petshop called “Pets at Home”. Like sureeee, I’m gonna give you my phone number and address over a fucking shrimp. Fuck off.
The person would much rather not bother typing in your email address, checking it three times along the way. But at every branch of everywhere there will be a nightmare of a person paid 50k a year to constantly take employees who don’t get email addresses to one side for a condescending chat.
I might start giving ridiculous email addresses to get the person on the till off the hook but give the 50k a year data pest nothing that’s of any use to them.
I just told them no.
What are they gonna do? Refuse the sale?
just say no, really easy.
Caroline probably doesn’t give a fuck and she’s just following an instruction in a shitty minimum wage shop job and gets shit for asking all day, just give her the email, or a fake one, don’t make someone else’s day harder just because you disagree with it. Same with the dickheads who get angry at being directed to a self service because “I don’t agree with it”, the minimum wage kid isn’t making the rules
“I don’t have an email address”
I don’t mind the idea of an email receipt if it’s one I’ll need to keep.
If there was a universal way of linking an email address with your card and it automatically emailing a receipt when you pay, that would be good.
But it would have to be controlled by the card companies, and only for the purposes of sending receipts. So once the payment is processed, a final message of transaction data is sent back to a central server that generates and emails the receipt, which can then be used for claiming warranties, making returns etc.
sweet caroline bah-bah-bah
sorry its the rules
At the risk of sounding like Nancy Regan, just say no.
I just say no
Just like Zammo
Personal data is a valuable commodity these days. It’s all worth money. Cheap, quick and easy money. Companies will offer all sorts of incentives to get hold of it in order to sell it to marketers. Just reject and move on.
The phrase you’re looking for is “paper receipt’s fine, thanks”, and they will (in my experience) look moderately annoyed and give you a paper receipt.
The amount of work places i see in the UK that shame there staff for not collecting data on percentage boards, is absolutely shocking from Dunelms, toolstation big supermarkets. The staff get no incentive just Caroline’s name written in red somewhere prominent she has to look at all day.
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Or phone number…enough with that data collection and marketing bullshit
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See, Caroline all the guys would say she’s mighty fine.
I give them my daughter’s email address she made when she was 11
Halfords do this, if they are going to lie about what they use it for, it’s completely ok to lie back. Last time I said I didn’t have one.
Nobjockeymingeeater@hotmail.com
I don’t mind if it’s electronics where warranty might actually be important.
Anything else is just annoying data harvesting though.
I give them spam or the name of the shop at ‘insert my domain name’ .com, it helps me organise things and is a bit passive aggressive.
I just tell them I don’t have one. None of them have called me a liar yet so fuck ’em.
I always answer No, sorry, I work in the branch and know what that date is used for…..so ….no
What ever the name of the shop is @gmail.com
E.g halfords@gmail.com
This isn’t a meme
You know. We don’t want to ask either, we are literally forced into doing it by the higher-ups.
Newsflash, Caroline doesn’t give a shit and more than likely doesn’t want to ask for it in the first place.
You can refuse.
My company cancelled their loyalty card last year, but have just decided to go for data capture and I’m fucking livid about it.
KPIs are the stupidest shit in the world, or at least the way companies choose and implement them are. I don’t understand* how the people that enforce them think they are a good idea, they use shops too and I guarantee they say no to email capture/bags/batteries etc when asked. (*The only explanation is that head offices think they are above everyone and the general public are too stupid to say no….)
On behalf of all retail workers, we are sorry, we don’t want to be asking this shit and we don’t get any bonus for doing so, but if we don’t we get some jumped up little Hitler who does get bonuses getting on our back, telling us we are shit because you didn’t need a reusable shopper for that £1 pen you bought.
Last week mountain warehouse asked me for it, I said to them this definitely won’t result in me getting any marketing emails, absolutely not I was told it’s just for the receipt.
Just looked at my emails and have 5 marketing ads from mountain warehouse in the past week, never had any before.
I just ask if this will effect if I can buy something or not and if it does I just leave. I had this shit when I tried to buy a shrimp from a petshop called “Pets at Home”. Like sureeee, I’m gonna give you my phone number and address over a fucking shrimp. Fuck off.
The person would much rather not bother typing in your email address, checking it three times along the way. But at every branch of everywhere there will be a nightmare of a person paid 50k a year to constantly take employees who don’t get email addresses to one side for a condescending chat.
I might start giving ridiculous email addresses to get the person on the till off the hook but give the 50k a year data pest nothing that’s of any use to them.
I just told them no.
What are they gonna do? Refuse the sale?
just say no, really easy.
Caroline probably doesn’t give a fuck and she’s just following an instruction in a shitty minimum wage shop job and gets shit for asking all day, just give her the email, or a fake one, don’t make someone else’s day harder just because you disagree with it. Same with the dickheads who get angry at being directed to a self service because “I don’t agree with it”, the minimum wage kid isn’t making the rules
“I don’t have an email address”
I don’t mind the idea of an email receipt if it’s one I’ll need to keep.
If there was a universal way of linking an email address with your card and it automatically emailing a receipt when you pay, that would be good.
But it would have to be controlled by the card companies, and only for the purposes of sending receipts. So once the payment is processed, a final message of transaction data is sent back to a central server that generates and emails the receipt, which can then be used for claiming warranties, making returns etc.
sweet caroline bah-bah-bah
sorry its the rules
At the risk of sounding like Nancy Regan, just say no.
I just say no
Just like Zammo
Personal data is a valuable commodity these days. It’s all worth money. Cheap, quick and easy money. Companies will offer all sorts of incentives to get hold of it in order to sell it to marketers. Just reject and move on.
The phrase you’re looking for is “paper receipt’s fine, thanks”, and they will (in my experience) look moderately annoyed and give you a paper receipt.
The amount of work places i see in the UK that shame there staff for not collecting data on percentage boards, is absolutely shocking from Dunelms, toolstation big supermarkets. The staff get no incentive just Caroline’s name written in red somewhere prominent she has to look at all day.
I just refuse lol.
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