Do you get sucked into customer reward programs or see them for the scam they are?

My mother hates them and I do too. They're a ploy to steal your personal data and then sell it. If you've ever signed up for a customer reward program chances are you've experienced an increase in robocalls, spam in your inbox, fraudulent texts, and even misleading advertisements both in your mailbox and while using the internet. This is not a coincidence, when this happens it means stores saved whatever personal info you used to sign up and then turned around to sell it to data brokers.

I am not sure what kind of programs you have in mind.

I benefit from two reward programs.

At a local grocery chain, I earn discounts on fuel purchases by buying groceries. These are stores I would shop at anyway, and I do not go out of my way to buy anything I would not have bought otherwise when I shop there.

At one convenience store chain, I get a free burger after every 15 visits. Again, I do not go out of my way to shop there more than I would otherwise. It is a chain I would patronize even without the rewards.

So, let me get this straight...if I do nothing else for the rest of my life but spend money and copy receipts before the ink dries, I get a 5% off movie ticket? If I pay for shipping.

Dang. That's EXCELLENT.

the best scams are legal
or even compulsory


I dont want yet ANOTHER app on my phone..
if they accept a reward card? fine
but No
More Apps

scam?

IDK, them have paid for some pretty legit stuff for me, as long as I'm a loyal customer

No membership’s or plastic cards … Cash Only !

Depends on how you use the program

It’s a scam when you think about it

I've always seen them as a scam.

Yes - I’m getting Green Stamps

Not usually

No