OT: I feel young at WalMart

This is sometimes a question asked by many chains when transacting with traceable debit or credit - just one more notch in their marketing data belt.

For many counter sales people, the mandatory patter expected by management becomes 'by rote' after a short time, regardless of the customer's size or shape. It's that kind of job.

I usually don't answer any unneccessary questions, even if only postal code or telephone. If they want to see more ID, I'll display it, but not surrender it. There's enough info already on the sales slip; that the product is going out of their inventory for $X; for any sales organization to manipulate competently.

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That's a bunch of bs. The problem is WalMart hires a lot of foreign workers with bad English skills and poor comprehension. All the customers needed t o do was call the manager over to set them straight. Sometimes the managers can get out of line too, when that happens they are summarily fired after a complaint is registered in the right place.

Unfortunately that's not necessarily the case.

When I was ~45 I was asked by a ~60 year old English woman to confirm my age. That was in Asda, which is owned by Walmart.

I wasn't sure whether or not she was complementing me :)

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kers with bad English skills and poor comprehension. All the customers need ed to do was call the manager over to set them straight. Sometimes the mana gers can get out of line too, when that happens they are summarily fired af ter a complaint is registered in the right place.

She just wanted your address :-)

I got carded last week by the big hairy bouncer at Zeitgeist, a nearby biker (ie, bicycle) bar. Cool.

Free matches.

I went to a morning coffee meetup this morning, I ordered my coffee and the cashier said, I gave you the discount. I ask "Is that because I look old?" He said, I just thought you'd get it. This is not the second time I was offered a senior discount. The first time was twenty years ago when I was 41! I pulled into a McDonald's drive thru and ordered coffee, the little teenage twit ask me if I got the senior discount! I wasn't smart enough to say yes. I really haven't aged poorly, no, really! :-)

Mikek

I don't generally ask for the senior discount, except for my season pass at Sugar Bowl. That's too good a deal to pass up.

Unrestricted, four buddy passes, four free days at Squaw, under $400.

I've been getting senior discount for ~20 years. At first my wife was offended but now no complaints ;-) ...Jim Thompson

My wife is they opposite, she would tell vendors I was old before I hit 60. Mikek

I've always been blessed by ugly... so ugly I was the designated teenager to go over to Ohio (when West Virginia was dry) and buy booze... NEVER got carded >:-}

Around here, senior discounts often begin at 55... probably because the senior residential areas specify 55 minimum. (We live amongst the ordinary folk... which brings its own problems... Internet slows to a snail-pace when the teenies get home form school. I'm about to switch to a fiber provider.) ...Jim Thompson

I went to the Wooden Shoe honkytonk with some friends when I was 13 and th ought I was passing for 18. But then just before my 18th birthday , I foun d out that the legal age was 21. And realized they just paid off the cops , because there was no way I was passing for 21.

Many years later I was in South Carolina and found that on Sundays they wou ld sell hard liquor but not Beer. The reason was that they could lose the ir beer license if they sold beer on Sundays. But no problem with hard liq uor. The reason was they did not have a license for hard liquor.

Dan

That's pretty good! It ranks right up there with a friend's story about a county that was voting to see if they were going to end local prohibition, being a dry county. The sheriff was asked if he supported the change and he said, "No, I wouldn't do that to my bootlegger."

I once answered a phone survey about investments and got calls from telemarketers for 5 years. Later, they tried it again and I declined to take the survey. But one of the telemarketers was fairly honest. I asked where he got my number, and he said he had bought it.

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I take the discount for the rich. The local theaters charge $7 for seniors and $10.50 for others. They define "seniors" as over 55.

My wife does the grocery shopping on Wednesdays to grab that five or ten percent, too.

Why not?

Many companies think my address is the BBC's (postcode W1A 1AA) and that I was born on Jan 1st, and that my phone number is

A more interesting trick is that if my email address is snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com and I'm dealing with company foo, then they think my email address is me+ snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com. Well for them it /is/ that, and it is functional.

I started getting many more cold/silent calls when my phone provider transferred their back office staff to India.

During a time when I moved twice in as many years, the frequency of junk mail followed my address only when I updated it at my employers. No junk until I updated company file info. I bitched about this and one particular receptionist ended up with a very red face, if not other marks on her employment record.

Not company policy, but a perk of her job, she figured....

RL

I used to say, "why give the discount to someone that has had 40 years to save their money, give it to young people so they can save for the future." Now that I'm there, I don't care so much!

Mikek

It's not just those who saved and are now spending it down ("fixed income"). When the "senior" discount is given to those above 55, in particular, it is subsidizing people in their peak earning years. Works for me. ;-)

When I was 18, I made a fake ID card titled: "Ford Motor Company Security Pass" with my picture, date of birth, and other stuff. Sometimes, when I used it, the store clerk would ask if I liked my job working at Ford..

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