Re: Safeway + Your Privacy

[Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>]

C'punks,

On Fri, 15 Apr 1994 killbarny@aol.com wrote:

> Safeway food stores has this neat little glitch in their shopping database
> that is just ripe for abuse and litigation. When you pay by check, your
> information is recorded and stored in their computers, so the next time you
> go in there and try to get out your ID [for your check], they say "Don't
> bother, we have that information."
> 
> So if Joe bad guy gets ahold of your checkbook, writes a bunch of checks,
> let's say, over a weekend, Safeway doesn't care because the computer sez your
> account is Kosher.

Nonsense.  Of course they care, because they will have to eat the bad 
check, not you.
 
> Hopefully, someone will have this awful thing happen to them and sue the
> Shit out of Safeway for being so negligent.  [ irrevelvant rant against
> Safeway's hiring practices ] . . . I only wish I had someone steal my
> checkbook and take Safeway to the cleaners.

And what, pray tell, would be your cause of action?  Why don't you just 
pay cash if you are so bothered?

 
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