/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.13786122]

Are supermarket rewards programs worth joining?

[Anonymous No.13786136]

>>13786122
this "artist" needs to kill himself

[Anonymous No.13786142]

Pros
>discounted prices
>personalized coupons
>easier returns if needed
>free

Cons
>corporation has your data and will use it to give you personalized coupons

If you've somehow managed to keep all your info secret until now, I wouldn't get it. Otherwise, you'd be a fool not to.

[Anonymous No.13786143]

>>13786136
A little too close to home, boomer?

[Anonymous No.13786148]

>>13786143
Boomers know what The Onion is.

[Anonymous No.13786154]

>>13786142
Does the hyvee fuel saver card count as a rewards program? There's no charge for it, as far as I can tell it's just free money.

[Anonymous No.13786155]

>>13786143
Not that anon, but it's a stupid joke because employees don't give a damn about people who are already signed up or they chose to not to sign up, they constantly ask if you want to sign up for the rewards card because corporate mandates them to, nothing more.

[Anonymous No.13786164]

>>13786154
Don't know it personally but if it's no charge and not an actual debit/credit card, it's worth it. The exchange is always just personal information and shopping habit info. If you don't care about the store knowing your name and where you live and what you buy, it's free money.

[Anonymous No.13786175]

itt;

[Anonymous No.13786192]

>>13786155
I think you might just be too dense for humor, anon.

[Anonymous No.13786229]

>>13786175
Isn't that just 4chan in general?

[Anonymous No.13786233]

>>13786192
I have never seen a boomer actually think having a free card means jack shit.

[Anonymous No.13786238]

>>13786122
Kelly has outdone himself with this one, the fact that employee Lady Libery is ready to bag is making me lol

[Anonymous No.13786245]

>Do you have a <Club Card>
>Why yes i do
>Put in phone number
What's the card for?

[Anonymous No.13786254]

>>13786155
>it's a stupid joke because employees don't give a damn about people who are already signed up
that IS the joke you actual autist!

[Anonymous No.13786262]

>>13786136
It's satire.

[Anonymous No.13786267]

>>13786122
if it's free, what have you got to lose?

[Anonymous No.13786268]

>>13786245
old people can't comprehend stuff that isn't linked to a physical item. it'll go away over time

[Anonymous No.13786290]

>>13786148
No they don't, I bet you don't even remember the abortionplex fiasco

[Anonymous No.13786495]

>>13786122
crying lady liberty gets me every time.

[Anonymous No.13786497]

>>13786122
In my area it gives you cents off of gas at stations that don’t have ethanol free gas, so no.

[Anonymous No.13786498]

>>13786229
this isn't reddit where retards pretend to be smart.

[Anonymous No.13786513]

>>13786122
no, they leave the cards at the register so you don't need one.

[Anonymous No.13786522]

>>13786175
I love Kelly

[Anonymous No.13786537]

>>13786513
When I worked at CVS the district manager specifically forbade us from doing this and one customer was convinced that I was lying to him about not having a card he could use for some reason and got so mad about it that he threw his stuff over the counter and stormed out

[Anonymous No.13786822]

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[Anonymous No.13786823]

>>13786522
woah you know his name?

[Anonymous No.13786830]

My local grocery store has a program where the more you buy the more gas money you get at their gas station.

I’d say it’s worth it.

[Anonymous No.13786834]

>>13786537
>>>13786513
>When I worked at CVS the district manager specifically forbade us from doing this and one customer was convinced that I was lying to him about not having a card he could use for some reason and got so mad about it that he threw his stuff over the counter and stormed out
District manager is a tool.
When I lived in D.C. where privacy is paramount for every kind of customer, include the fact that government workers and IT people know that big brother stuff is bad, as well as illegal to charge different prices for different customers (fact), then you should have informed the manager it was illegal.

Myf first apartment building when living in Northern Virginia in the 90s, had a punchbowl in the lobby of the building full of the key fobs from all the area groceries, pharmacies and stores doing that. They were registered in names like "Abe Lincoln" and "George Bush" of course. Fake. It was one way around the problem not to argue.

[Anonymous No.13786854]

>>13786142
They, uh, do more than personalize coupons

[Anonymous No.13786916]

>>13786854
Nothing that will realistically ever matter to the average person

[Anonymous No.13786925]

>>13786154
It goes way beyond just the store you shop at. They use this data on a huge network and insane analyst work. A prime example is people buying some foods get lower car insurance offers from completely unrelated insurance companies.. The logic is that demographic are more likely to be cooking at home and a bunch of other shit which makes them more responsible drivers.

[Anonymous No.13786930]

>>13786497
> ethanol free gas

No such thing. The same fuel trucks used to transport ethanol are also used to transport “ethanol fee” gas, thus ALL gas nowadays has X% ethanol in it.

This is why so many people’s lawn equipment breaks down, as the ethanol in the gas eats away at the fuel lines and this results in tiny pin holes that allow air into the fuel and leans out the carburetor and the lawnmower or weed whacker won’t start.

Automotive fuel lines are ethanol resistant but lawn equipment manufacturers are still using the cheeper old style fuel lines, so replacing them with new fuel lines usually fixes the problem.

[Anonymous No.13786931]

>>13786148
This old ax I'm friends with on fb posts Babylon Bee and Onion articles thinking they're real all the time.

[Anonymous No.13786961]

>>13786262
It's not a tire. It's a cartoon. Moron.

[Anonymous No.13786972]

>>13786823
Yea dude

[Anonymous No.13787053]

>>13786192
This webm always makes me sad.

[Anonymous No.13787149]

the safeway club card is fucking cool

[Anonymous No.13787184]

>>13786537
based.

[Anonymous No.13787226]

>>13786834
>as well as illegal to charge different prices for different customers (fact)

no its not Price discrimination is the practice of charging different persons different prices for the same goods or services. Price discrimination is made illegal under the Sherman Antitrust Act. 15 U.S.C. §2, the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. §13, and by the Robinson-Patman Act, 15 U.S.C. §§13-13b, 21a, when engaged in for the purpose of lessening competition, such as tying the lower prices to the purchase of other goods or services.

If different prices are charged to different customers for a good faith reason, such as a an effort by the seller to meet the competitor's price or a change in market conditions, it is not illegal price discrimination. Merely charging different prices to different customers is not illegal, when there is no intent to harm competitors.

that how Retail loyalty card programs exist if you have one you pay less if you dont you pay more

[Anonymous No.13787248]

>>13786122

meh, they have their uses.

I got a free upgrade to Business Class using my club card points once.

[Anonymous No.13787254]

yes, but I've noticed that the benefits offered keep getting worse

[Anonymous No.13787265]

>>13786122
depends on the store with the points i saved up at safeway i bought like 36$ of food and only payed a $1.30 or some cents

[Anonymous No.13787275]

>>13787265
forgot to add that one time it went into the negative safeway gave me like 67 cents to take the food lol you can play the system to your benefit

[Anonymous No.13787279]

>>13786122
Im probably not your average citizen so take with a grain of salt. I signed up for krogers reward thing with;

-a "junk mail" email address
-the gmail number for that email address
-the address used is a local po box I opened up with a fake ID

I get decent discounts and sales with it and fuel point at a gas station extension of the shop. The only downside is they likely have the name on the card I use at the pump/register. Havent figured out a reliable way to get around that yet.

[Anonymous No.13787290]

>>13787053
The dog isn’t feeling g bad for the fishy, it’s dog instinct to bury things to want to save later or hide. Notice how a dog also tries to kick dirt onto it’s fresh poop even if there’s nothing on the ground.

[Anonymous No.13787292]

>>13787279
everybody has your info at this point, privacy is dead

[Anonymous No.13787314]

>>13787290
>Notice how a dog also tries to kick dirt onto it’s fresh poop even if there’s nothing on the ground.
Some comments:
i) that's a rather rare behavior, only occurring among ~10% of dogs.
ii) they aren't burying the poop, they are scratching the ground. Dogs who scratch do so for both doo-doo and pee-pee.
iii) the scratching serves as some sort of territorial marker, not only is there a visible scratch on the ground near their shits and pisses like "yeah nigga i did that", there is also a pheromone gland in the hind paws that adds an additional scent marker to the scratch

[Anonymous No.13787332]

>>13786122
Worth it. I get about 20 dollars off or more when I do my weekly grocery shopping. Why would I NOT want that? My personal information is already everywhere out there anyway. When i get my bank account, personal information taken. When i buy a house, personal information taken. When i make an online stock broker account, personal information taken. When I go to the doctor, personal information taken. Im not going to refuse discounts because I am paranoid about my personal information being kept somewhere. Its out there.

[Anonymous No.13787485]

5% off, fuel points, $10-15 off for spending above an amount, in addition to discounts. Only negative no gas station for 30 miles that takes Harris Teeter

[Anonymous No.13788090]

>>13786122
>tfw menthol cigs will no longer be sold after may in my country
It's not like i liked them that much, it's just that the motto for my country seems to be "ban fucking everything"

[Anonymous No.13788280]

>>13787292
They've always had your basic information. You can still deny them your microdata, but it's very easy to give it away if you're not careful.

[Anonymous No.13788431]

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[Anonymous No.13788525]

>>13786537
i often ask the cashier if they can use their reward card/phone number

[Anonymous No.13788530]

no, just give them your mom's phone number at the register and use her account

[Anonymous No.13788533]

>>13786245
>>Do you have a <Club Card>
>>Why yes i do
>>Put in phone number
>What's the card for?
I believe it is to get people to shop only at their store. i know a number of people who keep their safeway card in their wallet or a mini card on a keychain. andd seeing as how theres a million fucking stores with a million cards, no one wants to carry all those cards so they just carry the card from the store they frequent, and they will choose that grocery store over other grcery stores becuase that is the store where they get discounts.

kinda like the buy discounted prices that are "two bags of chips for 5 bucks" even though they will let you buy a single bag for $2.50

[Anonymous No.13788535]

>>13786142
For Sobey's you don't even have to use your real name, you simply put any name you want and that's it, no verification or anything. As long as you have your card you're fine.

[Anonymous No.13788553]

>>13787265
>depends on the store with the points i saved up at safeway i bought like 36$ of food and only payed a $1.30 or some cents
you also overpayed hundreds of dollars on all the purchases before hand, fuck safeway.

i was talking to some older guy about grocery prices and i remember sometime in the mid 2000's prices seemed to go way up. he said that all the big grocers checked out the prices of all the expensive small time qaulity food stores and just lowered their prices about a buck under all theirs to increase profits but not lose sales to them

[Anonymous No.13788556]

>>13787279
>The only downside is they likely have the name on the card I use at the pump/register. Havent figured out a reliable way to get around that yet.
pay for gas with cash

[Anonymous No.13788578]

>>13786122
>Coworker dies
>I'm tasked with clearing out his desk
>Find grocery store reward card
>Use it regularly
>Get discounts on food
>Get discounts on gas
>Keep my coworker's memory alive
>Data miners don't hassle me and can't hassle him
What's not to like?

[Anonymous No.13788962]

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[Anonymous No.13789197]

>>13788533
Eh, I have a points card for one of the gas stations in my region, it gets me to try to go to their places first for the discounts, free stuff, and points I can exchange for free stuff.

[Anonymous No.13789207]

>>13787290
Yes because dogs always bury stuff with a few splashes of water. Fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.13789318]

what's with all the dale gribble level paranoia here?

[Anonymous No.13789337]

>>13789318
/pol/ seepage, mainly.

[Anonymous No.13789683]

>>13789318
/g/ is leaking

[Anonymous No.13789693]

>>13789318
>he thinks it's paranoia
Did you not hear about that whole Edward Snowden thing?
Or all the massive personal data leaks the past few years? Like actual millions of people at a time?

[Anonymous No.13789707]

>>13788090
Straya?

[Anonymous No.13789766]

>>13786122

>menthols

Dropped.

[Anonymous No.13790256]

>>13788556
cash? what...what is cash?

[Anonymous No.13790273]

>>13786262
Satire is enormously overrated as a genre.

[Anonymous No.13790284]

>>13790273
Only for people who are serially incapable of getting it.

[Anonymous No.13790477]

>>13788533
this really. not worth it since the "rebate" on my supermarket cards are like 0.3% or even less. just shop wherever there are cheap deals. period. brand loyalty is a sham.

[Anonymous No.13790493]

>>13786122
no they track your purchases and it's pointless to bother I always just use alternate id and 8675309 when I need a member discount

>>13786930
I thought the ethanol stuff just gummed it up if left for months. I mostly always make sure to run all of my equipment dry at the end of the year to avoid it

[Anonymous No.13790503]

>>13788553
food prices actually haven't kept up with inflation this last decade or so. oil is also pretty low

[Anonymous No.13790603]

>>13787290
>so upset by the thought that a dog has more empathy than he does that he has to pull out this trash
really makes u think

[Anonymous No.13790611]

>>13790493
> 8675309
based phone number. But what area code?

[Anonymous No.13790639]

>>13790611
I usually use my own area code. you could always use a nearby city if it doesn't work

[Anonymous No.13791157]

>>13786155
holy shit

[Anonymous No.13791853]

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[Anonymous No.13791899]

>>13786498
Yes it is

[Anonymous No.13791907]

>>13786122
I regularly save 10-20% even without deliberately shopping discounts, and when they have BOGO meat I can save way more; totally worth it,

[Anonymous No.13792306]

>>13790603
dumbo pupperino poster

[Anonymous No.13792615]

>>13786245
Putting the phone number in takes forever, cashiers would rather have the card to quickly scan
t. used to work at a grocery store

[Anonymous No.13792633]

>>13786192
fucking dumb fish and dumb dog

[Anonymous No.13792824]

>>13786498
explain /biz/, /pol/, and /x/.

[Anonymous No.13792866]

>have club card
>buy steak and a 6 pack of beer
>info sent to car insurance and heath insurance companies
>insurance costs go up
>Credit score goes down
all because you wanted to save a few pennies

[Anonymous No.13792875]

>>13792866
That's a pretty bold claim. Do you have evidence to support it?

[Anonymous No.13792876]

Kelly does it again

[Anonymous No.13792890]

>>13787290
Based factual poster making redderinos seethe.

[Anonymous No.13792906]

>>13789318
>>13789683
>>13789337
This is some newfaggotry. 4chan always cared about privacy. Were you fucks even alive when the patriot act passed?

[Anonymous No.13792913]

>>13792906
What's a patriot act? Go back to fucking reddit regardless newfag

[Anonymous No.13792927]

>>13792906
I remember the Patriot act and I remember discussing, and hating, it on SA.
Was 4chan even around back then, though?

[Anonymous No.13792978]

>>13792906
caring about privacy is great, thinking that getting a rewards card for the gas station is going to compromise your identity is batshit crazy. but that may be impossible to see from the outside, prayers I guess.

[Anonymous No.13793458]

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[Anonymous No.13794969]

[Anonymous No.13795372]

>>13794969
lol

[Anonymous No.13795391]

>>13792927
Patriot Act was in effect from 2001 to 2005 and received multiple full extensions until 2011, most of it is still active even today by sneaking provisions into other acts.
4chan came online in 2003

[Anonymous No.13795645]

>>13786830
Mine has the same deal, but you can also use the discount towards groceries. You can save more on bulk buy of groceries than you can on a standard size tank of fuel.

[Anonymous No.13795690]

>>13786498
That's exactly what this place is.

[Anonymous No.13795831]

>>13790493
> I thought the ethanol stuff just gummed it up if left for months.

Even if it doesn’t have a drop of ethanol in it, gas will “rot” if it sits too long and gum up the carb.

> I mostly always make sure to run all of my equipment dry at the end of the year to avoid it

Me too, but the ethanol is in all gas nowadays, so using your lawn equipment means running it thru your fuel lines and eventually, they’ll develop micro pinholes and the mower or whatever won’t start.

If that happens, replace the fuel lines and it should work fine after that.

[Anonymous No.13796337]

>>13786930
>>13795831
Fucking fuel line salesman

[Anonymous No.13796455]

>>13786498
you'd be surprised at the amount of people filled with hot air on 4chan for figuring out basic ass shit

[Anonymous No.13796595]

>>13796337

I’m working from home because of the corona zombiepocalypse

[Anonymous No.13797541]

>>13786136
Go be gay somewhere else, this dude is comedy gold.

[Anonymous No.13797549]

>>13786498
Right. This is where retards pretend to be even bigger retards and wonder why the sincere bigger retards showed up.

[Anonymous No.13797671]

>>13786925
>citation needed

[Anonymous No.13797679]

>>13786122
Kelly is a national treasure.

[Anonymous No.13797685]

>>13786122
not if you have to pay for them
if its free its an incentive to shop at their store over nother store
if its paid you are paying for the privilege of only shopping at one store
>>13786925
i dont own a car and never will, my data is worth shit and it will probably damage their algorithm more than it will benefit any of them
next time you get ads for amputee porn while looking up blender tutorials you can thank me

[Anonymous No.13797706]

For no extra money spent by me, every hundred bucks I spend I get some free shit. Usually it's a carton of eggs or something, only a few bucks. But I've gotta shop anyway, so what the hell.

[Anonymous No.13797880]

>>13789318
There's no reason they need information about me. They have things I want, and they want money. I'm willing to trade money for the stuff they have.

[Anonymous No.13798949]

>>13797679
this

[Anonymous No.13799380]

>>13790273
That's because idiots who watch shit like Family Guy where they make something sound stupid by talking about it in a stupid way way think satire is the pinnacle of comedy because making fun of people makes me smart
Satire can be good, it just isn't inherently so

[Anonymous No.13800662]

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[Anonymous No.13801256]

>>13799380
Shut up Meg