I found it a little strange today as I bought something from the store where the cashier asked if I had an e-mail address to send my receipt to. I have had this before when stores simply ran out of receipt paper as the business was literally closing down, but that didn\u2019t seem to be the case here. I did give out my e-mail though with a little reservation.<\/p>\n
Maybe it\u2019s just me, but I am still in the mindset that if a brick and mortar store asks you for an e-mail that it will somehow be used to send you marketing information. Almost no different than subscribing to a newsletter where the trade-off is that the business now has a huge list of potential customers to sell to over and over again. Of course that may not be the case at all here.<\/p>\n
Generally speaking personal information is big business too and so I am usually a little paranoid when companies ask for these kinds of details when they shouldn\u2019t have to. I guess that is why too for things like e-mail you should often have your main address and one designated for contest entries and such. Unless this is a new thing that businesses are adopting to save paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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