I had hoped the new Fallston Tractor Supply would not do the aggressive customer capture techniques the one in Abingdon does, but --- they are just as bad. They demanded our phone number even with a cash purchase, incredibly --- because we aren't the customers, we are the product that they sell. In Aberdeen they ask the zip code, they have asked our address, and one time asked my husband his birthdate! He asked how old you had to be to buy windshield wiper fluid...... They sell all our personal data and so now we get flooded with truly stupid magazines and umpteen dopey catalogs. So far they haven't asked us our email, but no doubt they would if we shopped more there, so yet more businesses could spam our email. We used to buy a lot there for the farm, but I hate this predatory, intrusive behavior where merchants collect both money and personal information, so they can sell us.
People of Harford County: rebel against this identity theft and resale by merchants, or every store you walk into will soon demand every identifier you have so they can profit from selling you. read more