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Default advantage to giving your real address to the store card

On Sat 19 Apr 2008 06:42:48p, Nancy Young told us...

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> "Sqwertz" > wrote
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>> Nancy Young > wrote:
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>>> I wonder if it's geographical. There are no supermarket chains
>>> around here that do not have a card. Every single one does.
>>> Even the drug stores.

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>> CVS uses cards here, Walgreen doesn't. I shop at Walgreens for just
>> that reason. And I shop at HEB and Central Market over Randall's
>> (Safeway) because of that.

>
> Agreed about Walgreen's, I didn't think of them because there aren't
> many around here. They always seem to be very convenient to wherever
> I vacation, which comes in very handy. But CVS and Rite Aid, the only
> two drug stores around here, both have cards.
>
> nancy


Walgreen's and CVS are the two major drugstore chains here. I shop at
Walgreen's simply by preference. CVS uses a card, but I can't stand their
stores. The card wouldn't be a deterrent if I liked the place.

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