DenisJun 28, 2025
Randahl Fink

No, I do not want to log into your site. No, I do not want notifications from you. No, I do not want to subscribe to your newsletter. No I do not want your cookies. No I do not want you to send me offers.

And when you wonder why I am taking my business elsewhere, this is why.

Jun 27, 2025 at 9:18pmIvory for iOS
Show threadBunRab Is Old And TiredJun 27, 2025
@randahl
I was just in a store where the clothes did'nt have price tags and I found an employee to ask where the prices were and she told me to download their app and scan the bar code of the item. Nope nopenopenope. I noped on out of there.
Show threadJoshJun 27, 2025
@BunRab Wow. Yeah I'd be out of there in a second 😬
Show threadthefathippyJun 27, 2025

@BunRab @randahl

🤦Yup, that's a nope. 😱

Yet *somebody* thought that was a good idea...

Show threadFallsMom 🌻Jun 28, 2025

@BunRab @randahl

Next logical step is you ring it up yourself on your phone so no employees needed!

Not a store I'd shop in. . .

Show threadBunRab Is Old And TiredJun 28, 2025
@FallsMom @randahl
I'd woory more that if I didn't buy it, the app would know every item I scanned but didn't buy, and start inundating me with messages that I really should buy the thing now!!!
Show threadFallsMom 🌻Jun 28, 2025

@BunRab

Yikes, yes!

Show threadFallsMom 🌻Jun 28, 2025

@BunRab

Also I wonder. . .if pricing will vary on who you are. Are you a repeat customer? Do they have data that shows you're well off?

Show threadMorayJun 29, 2025
@BunRab @FallsMom @randahl If it works like the rest of the web, it would be trying to get you to buy stuff you already bought
Show threadErzaderJun 28, 2025
@BunRab @randahl Crazy
Show threadDagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥Jun 28, 2025

@BunRab

Wow, nooo 😱
Also: aaah guinea pigs and flutes 💖

@randahl

Show threadLstn2urmama 🇨🇦Jun 28, 2025
@BunRab No signs or tags .. AM GONE...
Show threadMichael McWilliamsJun 28, 2025
@BunRab @randahl I ate in a restaurant fairly recently that had a QR code to scan to see the menu on your phone. Trouble is my phone would not scan their QR code for some reason. They had no printed menus and did not know the web address that the QR code was supposed to send me. Technology fail.
Show threadAlison MeeksJun 28, 2025
@MichaelMcWilliams There was a conversation had prior to all that with no we don't need your help. My son/nephew knows the interwebs. @BunRab @randahl
Show threadChance 'UmJun 28, 2025
@BunRab @randahl I still haven’t acquiesced to the grocery store loyalty cards. I enter my mother in laws phone number to get the discounts. I wonder if she wonders why she gets so many beer coupons.
Show threadBunRab Is Old And TiredJun 28, 2025
@tsrams @randahl
🤣🤣 The other thing you can do is enter your area code and 837-5309; that phone number has been used for evrry area code in the US for almost every grocery store chain!
Show threadPatrick Morris MillerJun 28, 2025

@BunRab @tsrams @randahl 867-5309, but yeah.

It was the first thing I thought of too, which is how you know I'm old.

Show threadBunRab Is Old And TiredJun 28, 2025
@kentenmakto
My aging arthritic fingers is what I'm gonna blame fingers!
Show threadAlison MeeksJun 28, 2025
@BunRab @randahl
Show threadJennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊Jun 28, 2025

@BunRab @randahl

To be a fly on the wall during inventory...

Show threadaproitzJun 28, 2025

@BunRab @randahl

#Unbelievable. Next, they only serve People onto 25, so you have to show your @ ID. For every #Shit they want you to install a f...... #App.

Show threadD.EJE.DJun 28, 2025
@BunRab @randahl it’s getting insane out there
Show threadPoloniousmonkJun 28, 2025

@BunRab @randahl

Dynamic pricing.

That shit should be illegal.

Show threadM SchommerJun 28, 2025

@Uair
My first thought as well.
But hey, if their customers are stupid enough...

@BunRab @randahl

Show threadSamantaz FoxJun 28, 2025
@BunRab @randahl I'm glad that this would be illegal in my country! (French law forces shops to display prices in a simple and legible way. They also mandate where required to indicate the price per unit (per liter or per kg usually)
Show threadSusannaHJun 28, 2025
@SamantazFox @BunRab @randahl I'd like a kg of white t-shirts, please. ;)
Show threadSamantaz FoxJun 28, 2025
@SusannaH @BunRab @randahl I have reworded my toot to make it clearer. In essence, if a shop sells tee-shirts in 3-packs, the label should show a "price per unit". If another item is sold as a 600g box, it shows "price per kg" and so on.
Show threadSamuelJohnsonJun 28, 2025
@BunRab @randahl Ilegal in the EU.
Show threadLooking for explanations…Jun 28, 2025

@BunRab @randahl

Ugh! 🤬

Show threadBenedikt NeuzweigJun 28, 2025
@BunRab @randahl next step: They know who you are through cookies and make tailored prices for you, so you pay 50% more than the guy next to you.
Show threadEdwinekJun 28, 2025
@BunRab
Aw, come on, all they want is all your data
@randahl
Show threadDeborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦Jun 28, 2025
@BunRab @raymondpert @randahl … depending on what brand and model of device you use, a custom price, just for you! 😵
Show threadTofiksJun 28, 2025
@BunRab @randahl
And this scanning app have spy module attached ...
Thanks, NO!
Show thread2xfoJun 28, 2025

@BunRab @randahl
I tried to get Internet for my home but the provider said i can't access the modem to change the settings from my home network, i have to download an app.

That's way too invasive on so many levels, so i cancelled the service request and I'm returning their dysfunctional modem.

Show threadbewilderbeast23Jun 29, 2025
@BunRab @randahl So they can charge differential prices; and increase all the prices from the laptop on the yacht without the tedium of asking actual people to do it.
Show threadwaldiJun 29, 2025
@BunRab @randahl So you take the clothes to the cashier, ask them to tell you the price and then decide which ones to try. The remaining ones stay with the cashier to put back. Or so.
Show threadBunRab Is Old And TiredJun 29, 2025
@waldi @randahl
Why would I do all that work to find out something that the store should have been telling me up front? And also, cashiers tend to have lines; especially in a store where that would be the only way to find out the price besides the app, there'd be a long line of annoyed people. Why shoukd I give any custom to a business that treats customers like that?
Show threadJulie WebgirlJun 29, 2025

@BunRab @randahl

😱 🤦‍♀️

#TechDoneWrong

Show threadΩ 🌍 Gus PoseyJun 27, 2025
@randahl Sincerely.
Show threaddiscodeerdiary.govJun 27, 2025
@randahl a scrub is a guy who can't get no love from me
Show threadGJ Groothedde 🇪🇺Jun 27, 2025
@randahl Also, the opposite of "yes" is in fact "no", and not "maybe later". 😡
Show threadJordanJun 27, 2025

@randahl @skinnylatte With only a little tweaking…

No, I don’t want your offers
No, I don’t want to be notified
No, I don’t want to take your cookies
No, I don’t want to subscribe

No, I don’t want no scrub
A scrub is a site that won’t get no love from me
Spitting up alerts and trackers and data hijackers
Tryin to holla at me ♫

Show threadRandy CC is RealJun 27, 2025
@randahl
Not to mention - turn off your ad blocker.
Show threadRandahl FinkJun 27, 2025
@AoaI and please allow pop-ups.
Show threadDagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥Jun 28, 2025

@randahl

And turn on scripts.
And THEN allow CloudGlare to determine if you're worthy to pass our sacred portal to the wonderful, golden fruits that are our products. For thou mayest think client is king, but thou wouldst be mistaken.

@AoaI

Show threadgobborgJun 27, 2025
@randahl this is why I like small businesses.
Show threadSir Farts AlotJun 27, 2025
@randahl Bazing-freaking-ga!
Show threadPeteJun 28, 2025
@randahl But Randahl, our HR department has identified an incredible opportunity for you . . .
Show threadGordarnitJun 28, 2025
@randahl It’s a way to deliver dynamic pricing. The app will learn how much you are willing to pay, how much you need an item. Your cost will be different from everyone else’s costs.
Show threadSensitivityiJun 28, 2025
@randahl enshitification
Show threadthermonuclear small claimsJun 28, 2025
@randahl
No, I do not want greed eggs and spam.
I do not want them in a box
I do not want them in Firefox
Show threadChris SimpsonJun 28, 2025
@randahl every day:
"do you have a store card?", "no", "do you want to sign up for one?", "no"
or
"phone number?", "I don't have one", "... erm ok"
or
"want your receipt printed or emailed?", "printed"
Show threadRo Laren RED57🥄💩🦨🍈🍊🤡Jun 28, 2025
@randahl Please make a note of #allthethings why I won’t do business with this company.
Show threadTedJun 28, 2025

Also don't ask me what I think of your website that I've only seen a few seconds of. No I don't want to talk to your support chat bot. And no location access either.

@randahl One AI agent I'd be ok with would be one to notice and close all those / reject cookies all before I can even see them. (as long as it is fully client-side) (maybe it exists?)

Show threadWelkinJun 28, 2025

@randahl I wonder why do most if not all of the websites require users to log in with their email addresses and/or phone numbers? What was wrong in having a user ID not linked to the email address and/or phone number.

Oh I get it the harvesting..........

Never mind

Show threadPure Light Forever XJun 28, 2025
@randahl Exactly How it is When We The People Try to Contact Congress ....Never is There A Genuine Reply ...No Personal Calls No Letters in the mail , Only Automated Hypocrisy.....America I Believed Was All About The People ....Now I Believe Congress is All About Upholding the Dollar Bill ....Attn Congress and Senate Y'all Feel Me?
Show threadJWcph, Radicalized By DecencyJun 28, 2025
@randahl For real, I'm pretty dang sure that all of this digital nagging turns away just as much business as it brings in, if not more. I don't have the data to back it up, for obvious reasons - but on the other hand, with +20 years of working in or adjacent to this field I've yet to see conclusive evidence (or any, in most cases) that it works.
Show threadhagelzörnchenJun 28, 2025
@randahl I am so tired of this
Show threadPaul Chambers🚧Jun 28, 2025
@randahl Hello, I just replied back to introduce you to @godpod and to tell you about all the thing God posts about so you too can become a follower.
Show threadPhil Thane ✅Jun 28, 2025
@randahl
And when I'm in a real shop, no I do not want to give you my email address so I can receive paperless receipts. And a tonne of spam, endless not very special offers on stuff I don't want and details of your membership card aka data harvesting scheme.