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My grocery store loyalty card is just a tracking device
Stopped at a chain in Columbus last month and grabbed the rewards card to save 30 cents on milk. Got home and checked my account, they had my full purchase history going back 4 years. Even items I returned with cash, they kept the record. The store manager told me, "We can share that with any partner we choose." That's not a discount program, that's surveillance with a free bag of chips. Has anyone here actually read their loyalty card terms or asked to be deleted from the system?
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susan_adams1mo ago
Wait, the part that got me is when the manager said they can share it with "any partner they choose." Did you ask him who those partners actually are? Like is it just other stores in their chain or are they selling your name and what you buy to insurance companies and coupon mailers and whoever pays? I'd want to know if they hand over your info to data brokers. And when you say 4 years back, was that from just that card or did they link it to a phone number or credit card you used before? That's the creepy part, figuring out how they matched old cash returns to you in the first place.
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