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@lrvick @tphinney @Jennifer Nothing like a medical provider electing to drop me as a patient, but last week I dropped off 3 boxes at FedEx in Walgreens and couldn't get a receipt because I didn't have a smart phone with me. They were prepaid returns worth several hundred dollars. People are being forced to have a smart phone on their person at all times to do ordinary everyday things. 17 comments
@chiffchaff @rob11563 @lrvick @tphinney @Jennifer The second beast forces all people—important and unimportant, rich and poor, free and slaves—to be marked on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that NO ONE MAY BUY OR SELL unless he has the mark, which is the beast's name or the number of its name.
This calls for wisdom: Let the person who has understanding figure out the number of the beast, because it is the number of a person. Its number is 666. @chiffchaff @rob11563 @lrvick @tphinney @Jennifer I mean, as long as it is a smartphone that you carry with you, the doomsday is not imminent, but once the smartphone is put into your forehead…  @chiffchaff @rob11563 @lrvick @tphinney @Jennifer the burger van is being dumb, why don’t they buy a $20 TracFone for folks who don’t have a smart phone so they can place an order if dudes won’t just go ahead and do it for you?  I would have pressed them to give me a handwritten receipt. Hopefully you wont need it, though. @rob11563 @lrvick @tphinney @Jennifer I would report the Walgreens incident to your Attorney General. Not everyone can afford a smart phone. I'm sure the Attorney General would be interested in a major corporation excluding a vulnerable portion of the population from being able to do business with them.   @Jennifer @adrienne @rob11563 @lrvick @tphinney I agree with Adrienne that you won't know if the AGs office can help if you don't try. There are people who want to assist in these matters if given a chance plus you would be throwing sunlight on the problem instead of letting companies simply get away with poor behavior. You could be pleasantly surprised. I used to be a professional consumer advocate and the wins are worth fighting for. @rob11563 @lrvick @tphinney @Jennifer Dropped 3 returns @ Kohls yesterday. Had printed RMA with product named for each. Good thing, since clerk's first question was "Which RMA goes with which return?" Much harder to find in email on phone, which is why I printed them in the first place. Clerk could not be bothered to read paper cause expecting to scan phone. Something wrong here. 😝 |
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@rob11563 @lrvick @tphinney @Jennifer I get this kind of thing a lot, too.
I don't really carry my phone around with me unless I need to phone someone while not at home (which isn't often, it can wait, and other folk can wait for me).
Your phone can be nicked or damaged and it's got all that info on it and is big and expensive and everything, and it's always tempting to fiddle with it, or take photos rather than do things unmediated.
But the strangest things are suddenly not possible. There was a burger van which refused to serve me the other day. I was there, they had spare burgers, I had a kind of money they accepted, but they wouldn't serve me because I didn't have the app, literally just to order the food, and I didn't have my phone.
They're all trivial things -- I can always try to remember my phone if I know it's going to happen -- but it's weird.
My phone spends most of its time plugged into the wall at home for when I have to interact with these weird companies (until I find a competitor!)
@rob11563 @lrvick @tphinney @Jennifer I get this kind of thing a lot, too.
I don't really carry my phone around with me unless I need to phone someone while not at home (which isn't often, it can wait, and other folk can wait for me).
Your phone can be nicked or damaged and it's got all that info on it and is big and expensive and everything, and it's always tempting to fiddle with it, or take photos rather than do things unmediated.