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My Paranoia Is Showing

18 years ago

Okay, couldn't sleep last night.

During my night long tossing and turning, and random thinking, I remembered that DH had just gotten a new Blackmail Card (I'll rant about that another time--LOL) from his favorite supermarket. Of course, as is usual these days, it came with a card or 2 and a couple of key tags.

Now, I'm not a fan of key tags, anyway. I've been on a mission for years to lighten my key chain. At this point, I have 2--one with just a few keys, just enough to get me out the door and into my car. And another with ALL the keys for everything my husband likes to lock up (I look like a prison warden when I carry that one).

Well, back to the key tags. It occurred to me how dangerous they are. Our supermarket prints your name on your receipt when you use your shopping card. So if you lose your keys--or someone sees that bright tag and lifts them--all they'd have to do is go to the appropriate supermarket and buy something small using the tag. At that point, they'd have your name. Wouldn't be all that difficult to find your address then--and hey, by now they have the keys to your home and car.

I'm still exhausted from a night on no sleep--did that rambling make any sense to anyone else?

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Comments (6)

kathy_
18 years ago
You can get the same info from a phone book.
I found a card once and the clerks could not even find the name for it.
I hate those tags too and when CVS pharmacy got them I said no more. I can shop other stores.
mcmann
18 years ago
Good point about the key tags Azzalea. I don't use them but my son carries them. I save all my receipts until I balance my check book so I have lots of store receipts to check.

The Genuardi's receipt does have my name printed on it so I called the store and the cashier said to call their 800 number to have it changed.

Luckily Wegman's, Shop Rite and Acme do not print the names on their receipts.

I will pass this information on to my son.
Thanks.
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azzalea
Original Author
18 years ago
It's not on the shoprite slip? I'm sure they've said "Thank you, Mr/s. _______" when we've shopped there. Maybe it just shows on the screen? Even that, though, is TMI, because the key finder can see the screen, if they want to, right?

Yes, this is info that one might get out of the phone book, but if you find a random set of unidentified keys, you wouldn't know which name to look up. With the key tag, it would be relatively easy to find out.
mcmann
18 years ago
Azzalea - the name might be on your receipts. Shop Right is a cooperative, it's the largest food coop in the US so the stores you shop at might have a different owner and then perhaps a different check out system. I shop at the ones in Delran and East Gate and they have 2 different owners.
pawsitive_gw
18 years ago
I keep my keys in my pocket so keyring tags drove me crazy especially when I stuck my hand in my pocket and got sliced by one of the tags. I solved the problem by putting all the tags on a split ring and adding a clip to hang it from my purse. I unclip the ring, hand it to the cashier and then hook it to my purse again. They are all in one spot and the clerk has to look thru the tags to find the right one. Just my passive-aggressive nature coming through. If all the stores want you to have them, then they can look through the mess to find the right one!
golfergrrl
18 years ago
I don't even carry the card or key tag. I just give my phone #. That works just as well.

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