{"id":460327,"date":"2010-03-22T14:58:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003562"},"modified":"2010-03-22T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:55:08","slug":"radio-shack-wouldnt-let-me-buy-stuff-without-email-address-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/460327","title":{"rendered":"Radio Shack Wouldn’t Let Me Buy Stuff Without Email, Address, Phone #"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Reader Molly needed a cellphone charger. She ran in to Radio Shack to grab one and paid with cash — but the cashier wouldn’t complete the transaction without her home address, phone number and email address. She’s wondering if this is normal.<\/p>\n

Molly says:<\/p>\n

I went to a radio shack yesterday to replace my cellphone charger. It came to 10 and change including tax and I paid cash. <\/p>\n

So I could not think of a reason why the woman at the counter insisted on collecting my home address, phone number and email address. I tried to decline, but she insisted the transaction could not be completed without the data being inputted. <\/p>\n

I would have asked to speak to a higher up, but I had a cab waiting and just wanted to book it. I really don’t like handing out information like that, is this blanket policy or was she just crazy? If it is normal, is there away around this?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Different states have different laws about what information you are allowed to collect at the register, so we’ll just throw this one out to the crowd. <\/p>\n

Is this normal at Radio Shack? Any tips for getting around it? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reader Molly needed a cellphone charger. She ran in to Radio Shack to grab one and paid with cash — but the cashier wouldn’t complete the transaction without her home address, phone number and email address. She’s wondering if this is normal. Molly says: I went to a radio shack yesterday to replace my cellphone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}