Does anyone else hate the store cards you have to have to get discounts??!
Answers: Every food store I go to wants you to sign up for a card to receive their lower prices. I literally have a stack of cards I would have to carry around to get any normal prices in stores. Does anyone else find this inconvenient? If so what can be done about it?
as a former restaurant owner, i can tell you that these cards are EVIL.
if you really want to avoid that kind of crap, eat only at locally owned restaurants.
it's like this: a big restaurant chain buys salt by the train car load. they pay, maybe, a penny a pound for that salt. a local restaurant owner pays about a dollar (or more) a pound.
local restaurant owners don't have the buying power to offer discounts - most of them are working hard to keep prices down, but the truth is that they pay alot more for the food they serve you.
if you really want to be free from this kind of crap, be selective where you spend your money. the discounts may be great, but the profit for the big chains is higher even when they give you a "discount."
sorry for the rant, but darn, it felt good.
buy and eat local - don't send your money to some corporate office that doesn't give two craps about your local community.
I hate them to, and I think its just one of the new gimmicks to get personal info...Like a lot of sweepstakes
Uggh, yeah and i always forget mine too.
no, i love them! i kinna wish my local grocery store would do something like that. what with the price of groceries, i wouldn't mind needing a card.
i just memorize my number, and keep one on my keychain.
I agree. I shop at Safeway and it irks me that I can't get their stuff that's on special that week without having to drag out that stupid card. If other stores have their weekly specials without cards, why can't Safeway. It's not good for anything else that I can see so what is the point. I use it cuz I have to but I don't like it.
Yes I hate them too. I always give them bogus info and list a phone number that is bogus also, but easy to remember, that way I don't have to give them the cards, give them the bogus phone number when I check out, still get the discounts and not the hassle.