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by nickbp 5545 days ago
Whenever I get one of those discount cards from a pharmacy/grocery store (CVS, Price Chopper, Safeway, etc), I hand out the duplicates to random people just to stick it to the man.

I do end up with 'interesting' coupons every so often. It's a little like hearing back from an estranged friend.

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I'd love a website to swap these cards around...

Or, alternatively, some other social signal that people wanted to trade, similar to Button Men at conventions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button_Men

That reminds me of the guy who tried to become the ultimate shopper by mailing people a copy of the UPC from his Safeway discount card with the intention that they would stick it over their UPC code. http://www.cockeyed.com/pranks/safeway/ultimate_shopper.html