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I actually have, on multiple occasions, had high street shops ask for my name and other details. Thankfully I've never had any problems making the purchase after I politely decline to give them anything.
Yes, the intrusive marketing cancer is actually spreading to the high street too. They're now asking for e-mails under the excuse of sending you your receipt and saving the planet (no need for paper) but obviously you will get spam and no doubt that this e-mail will also be shared with advertising partners such as Facebook.
I very much enjoy telling people in shops that I don't have an email address when they ask.
You can practically see the cogs whirring as they try to comprehend that before they realise that, of course, I'm looking them in eye and lying to them.
This is particularly funny in a computer store.
Is there a name for making excuses that are deliberately implausible, but more ironic than euphemistic? Asking for a friend.
Have you had a .. "provable" experience along these lines? seems like a GDPR complaint could be made.
The evidence is in my inbox. A high street shop asked for my e-mail, I decided to give them the benefit of the doubt (because of GDPR and all that). Of course I then received an e-mail from a third-party asking me about "feedback" (and no doubt it would've been shared with other third-parties behind the scenes too). I'm pretty sure I made a GDPR complaint but it didn't go anywhere.
The GDPR is a joke and will never be taken seriously until those promised "4% of global turnover" fines actually start falling down on the offenders.
I often get people in shops ask for my email to send the receipt to, a paper receipt isn't even an option they offer. Thankfully when I ask for a paper receipt it's not usually a problem either. If I've just paid for the product, why would I want to give them my email address? Someone needs to make a receipt aggregator or something.
There are receipt aggregators; there's no reason to trust them though. There's too much of an amount of money to be made in this niche and thus no reason for any company to provide a honest solution.
Yeah that's fair, I should have elaborated and said "someone should make a privacy friendly one". I don't even care much about long term storage, I just want to be able to scan a QR code generated at check-out and have it loaded onto my phone.
You're likely right about there not being a good reason to provide an honest solution.
Recently had to register to get a substantial "discount" on an expensive item.
Gave them wrong data, of course.