From the swamp's facebook page a couple days ago...a SCREAM-O-VISION rant from some kook demanding people boycott the swamp because....this is really the biggest outrage in the history of everything....our cashiers ask people to provide their zip codes at checkout.
HORROR. OUTRAGE. VIOLENT MOBS. BURNING AT THE STAKE.
After a few other people explained how they have no problems giving their zip codes at checkout and why this is done, the nutbag gave this response:
Seriously, can't we just banhammer tin-foil hat conspiracy nuts like this one out of existence? Just about every retailer asks customers for zip codes at some time in the year. Most of them can't afford demographers to figure out where their customers are from. Nobody's stealing any information off your purchases for any nefarious reason, and I certainly don't think this process is illegal anywhere. Show me an Attorney General who starts investigating zip code captures as a start to making the practice illegal, and I'll show you an Attorney General who needs to find better things to do with his/her time.
Besides...if you don't want to give that information, it's not like they won't take your money. The cashier will just hit a button on their register and go ahead with the transaction if you don't feel like telling them your zip code. Why waste your time and energy organizing a boycott nobody else will join?
And then, posted earlier today by the same imbecile, another call to boycott the clearance swamp. I suspect I will be seeing various manifestos and screeds from this whackaloon popping up on our Facebook page from time to time throughout the next couple of months.
HORROR. OUTRAGE. VIOLENT MOBS. BURNING AT THE STAKE.
After a few other people explained how they have no problems giving their zip codes at checkout and why this is done, the nutbag gave this response:
Quoth kook
Besides...if you don't want to give that information, it's not like they won't take your money. The cashier will just hit a button on their register and go ahead with the transaction if you don't feel like telling them your zip code. Why waste your time and energy organizing a boycott nobody else will join?
And then, posted earlier today by the same imbecile, another call to boycott the clearance swamp. I suspect I will be seeing various manifestos and screeds from this whackaloon popping up on our Facebook page from time to time throughout the next couple of months.
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