[nitwit005]

It's not tech related. Previously, they all did this with various cards. People were walking around with a giant stack of loyalty or store credit cards in their wallet with a rubber band wrapped around it.

There is a store I shop at where every purchase, they ask every single customer if they "have a phone number with them", which they can type in on the point of sale device. I've waited behind people trying to remember their old phone number.

[1718627440]

That didn't come with all the tracking and privacy implementations though.

[nitwit005]

But of course they do. A big part of those schemes is to track all people's purchases. They also sold that data.

[1718627440]

A paper card with a stamp doesn't even have a name on it and the only copy of it existing is owned by the costumer. The only information e.g. the baker has is what names he has in brain.

[nitwit005]

The cards I was referring to were plastic cards with magnetic strips.