Allow me to stand on my soapbox for a second.  One thing that particularly upsets me when shopping at grocery stores or drugstores are the use of customer loyalty cards.  I’m so fucking sick of being asked if I have my Safeway/albertsons/CVS card in hand when I’m shopping.  What is the purpose of this other than to lock you into shopping only at one store.  If you want to do me a favor, just keep your prices low all the time and save me the charade of raising prices then lowering them when I present your particular card.  I know I’m not really saving $5 on that box of Triscuits (don’t even get me started on how fucking weird is the name Triscuit, its the combination of  biscuit and what? Tris?  what the fuck is that!) I know that Albertson’s isn’t charging $7 for a box.

Seriously! who has the time to collect these fucking cards and carry them 24/7 just on the off chance of stopping somewhere to purchase something.  Should I keep them in an baseball card holders and file them in three ring binders?  Don’t even get me started on the follow up question when I explain I don’t have the card on me.   “What’s your phone number?”  Like its that simple, Hmm.  Let me think, which number did I sign-up the card under?  Could it be the home phone number for one of the 8 different places I’ve lived at in the past 8 years, or maybe the number for my cell phone, or work blackberry, or work phone number, or grand central number, or one of the two burner numbers I’ve used when my cell phone wasn’t working.  Hold on, let me just manually try each of these 14 numbers (if I can remember them) just to get 1.50 off that laundry detergent.

Cut the bullshit already.

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