Just bought a 2m section of flexible tube for a gas stove, and the sales clerk asked first for my phone number, to which I replied “I don’t have one”. Then she asked me for my name, to which I replied “I’ll pay in cash”. She then insisted it was so “the cashier will call you by name”, to which I replied “I’m not giving you my name, I’ll pay in cash”. [Edit: she apparently got a bit upset when I refused to give info, but ended up entering “no name” according to the receipt]
Am I wrong for not wanting to give personal data for an item paid in cash, in person? No other hardware store ever asks me for my personal info.
Bruno is my go-to name. No matter where I sm in the world, Bruno sounds right.
Yeah, places have done that on and off since the 2000’s. Brick and Mortars want your data just as much as online places.
It’s always been easy to just say no and move on and if they insist because their managers are corporate junkies, I’ve always given out random area code + Jenny’s number along with any given random name. Dirk Diggler will live on buying things as long as I live.
Last time I bought something at Dunhelm Mill in the UK:
“Hi, can I have your email address so we can send you the receipt?”
“Lol, no.”Edit to add: OP should have said: “Coincidentally, my name is Cash. Johnny Cash.”
First thought was that they were flirting with you.
…I guess not though.
I live near a microcenter and they are like this. I had to pick up an Ethernet cable and I just paid cash. When I didn’t want to tell them my phone or email the cashier looked at me like I kicked a puppy.
“I’m Devin Null, but I prefer Dev, I live at 777 segfault drive, phone number (192) 168-0101.”
Hopefully someone is going to lose a day tracking that down when they validate the database.
WOW. That is really invasive. I always refuse to give phone number. I don’t need more garbage phone calls. I definitely am not giving some rando my name to help track my purchasing more. Geez. I usually stick to no thank you and I don’t give that out. If there is a problem, I will leave the stuff on the counter and go to a different store entirely. I have done this in the past due to pushy tactics. I did tell the manager on duty that this is truly invasive and I will not be back though. I was never back as a result. Apparently normal people don’t get any privacy anymore :(
Well you see now this is just a but embarrassing… my name is actually “Fuck-Home-Depot”
Saul Goodman 1 (505) 503-4455
No they’re gathering data to sell you shit. Fuck them, the employees may be mandated to ask for it though so don’t be hard on them. Feel free to lay into management if they make a stink about it.
Lmao as if the store management has the faintest hint of authority over store policy in anything bigger than a mom and pop shop. That’s what’s so irritating about dealing with corporations, there’s no one to hold to account as a customer
My doctor’s office had a space on the form you fill out when you come in that said nickname. So just for fun I put in Your Royal Highness. I didn’t realize that was the name they called when they were ready for you to Go to the exam room. They had to repeat it twice before I noticed.
LoL. I wonder if they were amused or annoyed by that nickname
MD here 100% the staff and provider got a kick out of it. Top notch giggles m8.
I would just play the witchy card, true names have power. Plus im onto that fey crap, you may not have my name, you can call me John. Now would you mind holding this iron horseshoe?
And no your not wrong, refusing to feed the infromation economy is the first steps to freeing yourself from it. It is effort, the modern world has too many traps, but you can do it.
My new use name is Wojtek, pronounced “Voy-tek”.
No, not wrong. But I usually give a silly name, like Glutomis Maximus! Yes, there is an exclamation point in the name.
