C.<p>For $REASONS, I wanted to buy something locally. Looking online, I ended up finding it in stock at <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Visions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Visions</span></a>, so I bought it there and paid online, and chose the pick up option. Because they do "free" shipping, if you pick up you get a gift card for a few bucks as a discount.</p><p>But that gift card expires in, like, a month, so I had $35 burning a hole in my pocket. I went back there today to spend it on a MicroSD card that would just about use the whole amount.</p><p>And boy, was it difficult to get them to complete the sale without giving them my name, address, and all the rest. Eventually prevailed, but ... I haven't seen this level of aggressive info collection on walk-in customers since Radio Shack was still a (real) thing.</p><p>Do brick-and-mortar retailers not realize just how off-putting this sort of thing is?</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/retail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retail</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/retailer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retailer</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/BrickAndMortar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrickAndMortar</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/online" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>online</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/shopping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shopping</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/DataCollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCollection</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/FreeShipping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeShipping</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/GiftCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GiftCard</span></a></p>