Toolstation/Screwfix ETC asking for postcode.

[johnny2007]

Ok, enough!!

A friend of ours is an areas manager for one of the two outfits

The reason they ask for postcode and email address at times is = MARKETING = FACT

Marketing IE sees who is visiting the Westminster store and from how far afield etc. Then they plan if they need a new store or store removed. I often get toolstation post/promotions less so screwedfixed.

Please do not bother thanking me.

You mix with an area manager???
I thought you only dealt with ceo of £100M+ companies...

 

[The Samaritan]

You mix with an area manager???
I thought you only dealt with ceo of £100M+ companies...

Direct me to that comment. On the other don't bother as you know I did not say that.

Unlike you, it does not bother me how much someone earns or not as long as they are not cheating the benefits system or crims and nice to me and that is a fact

 

[johnny2007]

Direct me to that comment. On the other don't bother as you know I did not say that.

Unlike you, it does not bother me how much someone earns or not as long as they are not cheating the benefits system or crims and nice to me and that is a fact

Maybe I got confused with your alter ego

 

[The Samaritan]

Maybe I got confused with your alter ego

Looks like you are just being nasty.

 

[Dork Lard]

Blimey. Aren't you lot aware yet of facial recognition being used in supermarkets?

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Just happened to me in Halfords. I just said no I don’t know it.
Then he asked for my email address. no I don’t know that either.

Halfords have got my email address. Every now and again, they send an email sayiing they notice I haven't shopped with them for a while - have a free £10 voucher. Don't mind if I do. Had two or three of these vouchers so far.

 

[Deleted member 292770]

Halfords have got my email address. Every now and again, they send an email sayiing they notive I haven't shopped with them for a while - have a free £10 voucher. Don't mind if I do. Had two or three of these vouchers so far.

Don’t normally entertain them but one of the vans wouldn’t start .£4.40 for some female spade connectors. robbers.
Although I get 10% off through AA (recovery)
but forgot

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Don’t normally entertain them but one of the vans wouldn’t start .£4.40 for some female spade connectors. robbers.
Although I get 10% off through AA (recovery)
but forgot

I recommend anyone who's in a trade - not just motor trade - to get a Halfords trade card. Discounts vary, but have had some sizeable ones off certain products. Halfords are handy and a good range. I try to support the disappearing local factors as well.

https://www.halfords.com/motoring/trade-card/trade-card-sign-up.html

 

[The Samaritan]

Halfords have got my email address. Every now and again, they send an email sayiing they notice I haven't shopped with them for a while - have a free £10 voucher. Don't mind if I do. Had two or three of these vouchers so far.

We go two each last year

 

[muckytucky01]

When I go into Toolstation, Screwfix or Machine Mart the first thing I am asked is "Postcode?" I think it's intrusive. Why the hell should I have to give any shop my name, address, phone number and email just to buy something from there? When the inevitable happens and their website is hacked, your personal information will be sold on the darkweb to fraudsters, who will use it to try and rob you. They don't need your personal information, and shouldn't be asking for it for free.

They use this information for market research. If they want to use my personal information for marketing purposes, they can pay for it, at £50 a time. You are not obliged to give anyone your personal information, and under GDPR Right To Erasure law, you can ask them to delete from their servers any information of yours they already took:

https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/your-right-to-get-your-data-deleted/

Does this get on anyone else's nerves too.

i used to work at toolstation. It is not intrusive at all you can decline. The reason we asked for postcodes is because it tracks all your orders and can print receipts off from whenever you want. if you lost a receipt and didn't have an account the order technically doesn't exist therefore you wont receive a refund which in my experience people are quick to give the postcodes when they find that out.It's also used to order next day items and which to further that believe me none of us care about your postcode and wouldn't ask for it if we didn't have to. the same way we make accounts is the same way you've done to make one on here, facebook, anything online really so by your logic it's all intrusive

 

[muckytucky01]

I've changed my views on this slightly, maybe quite significantly. I think any individual should (easily) be able to decline giving such information, and purchasing should still be possible without any actual or perceived annoyance from those serving you. Online, quite a few websites still allow you to complete a transaction as a 'guest', so I'm assuming ... maybe wrongly ... the data you enter isn't retained.

A good few years back I was shopping in Matalan (what?!? it's affordable!!) I walked up to the counter with quite a few items. Long story short, the lady behind the counter was insistent the purchase couldn't proceed if I didn't sign up for a Matalan card. I didn't have to use it, but it was policy, or so she said.

I walked out, leaving the items on the counter.

However, these days I do most of my shopping online and tend to have accounts with these retailers. Of course you're right, there's always the chance of info ending up online, however (pessimistic view perhaps) we're increasingly becoming a cashless society where more and more is done with the swipe of a card.

Tbh a lot of your info is probably already out there.

you can decline you're not forced to do that unless its a next day order as that is delivery so you need to know who its for and contact number/email to let you know of delivery updates etc like you would with anywhere else when you order online. people don't realise that your information is everywhere

 

[HERTS P&D]

I am Not a number, I am a postcode.



Andy