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> Never give them your phone number.

Give them Jenny's number:

(your local area code) 867-5309

It works way more often than you'd think, and if no one has yet made a store loyalty account with the number, you can be the first and add to the movement :). Use this trick whenever you need a loyalty card to get a store discount.



All jokes aside, this would obviously divulge order details and/or control to whomever owns that number :-) Easier to just block the damn number.


The use case I'm thinking of is when buying random sundries at the store, not ordering sensitive items.


Ah makes sense then! And would be pretty fun.


I've just compulsively been doing it any time I get anything from a store with a loyalty card, which is all of them now, and not once out of a dozen different local stores did I need to create the account--someone always already had :). This I think is a great way to protest against retail surveillance.




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