Comment by pilingual

Comment by pilingual 3 days ago

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Don't people dodge these cameras?

When I used a credit card at home depot self checkout I was asked if I wanted to have the receipt sent to a specific email address I entered previously online. Creepy. So I started using cash only.

Last year I went to get some low voltage wire. I walked for several aisles in both directions to find someone to open the cage. Not a soul. So I reached behind the cage and pulled it out, went to self checkout, began paying with cash. The machine said it couldn't issue change and to see an associate. Seemed odd as it was early in the day. Associate casually went to another register and got me change. When I went to my car (parked far away of course) there was a police car hanging out right next to it. Nothing further happened, but all too coincidental.

I discovered a smaller local hardware store and go there. The employees constantly ask you if you need help which is the complete opposite of home depot.

Under no circumstance will I shop at Home Depot again.

(And, today I drove by that HD and noticed they installed multiple ALPR.)

nmeofthestate 3 days ago

>When I went to my car (parked far away of course) there was a police car hanging out right next to it. Nothing further happened, but all too coincidental.

I think you're being paranoid.

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  • pilingual 3 days ago

    The location where my car was parked was remote. There is no explanation for the proximity of his idling vehicle.

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    • prawn 3 days ago

      The remote parts of the car park are usually where the least desirable sorts hang out. (I park in the same areas due to an oversized vehicle, so notice them.)

      I also think you're being paranoid.

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    • nmeofthestate 3 days ago

      So you paid by cash and as a result home depot secretly called the cops on you, and the cops knew where you were parked and sent a car to passive aggressively harass you by parking nearby?

      Maybe the cop was parked out of the way eating his lunch.

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kotaKat 3 days ago

> When I used a credit card at home depot self checkout I was asked if I wanted to have the receipt sent to a specific email address I entered previously online. Creepy. So I started using cash only.

A lot of retailers do that now. They match first 6/last 4 in store against your online account to match receipts up. Walmart is a big one now with that implemented across their self-checkouts (and eventually pushed onto the registers with their new software/hardware upgrade push).

> The machine said it couldn't issue change and to see an associate. Seemed odd as it was early in the day.

Slightly makes sense if they haven’t loaded every machine up with a full cash load. Plus some lanes might “accidentally” be turned on without any cash in them and not put into a “cards only” state.

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vorgol 3 days ago

It's very tempting to assume what people will or are doing, and it's so, so easy to get it so wrong.

Picture this. Guy comes home late at night. Outdoor light is on. He goes in and presses he light switch. No lights come on but the fuse blows and now the outdoor light is gone.

What does he do?

The answer is that you have no idea based on only that information. It's tempting to think he'll do what my friends and I would do: find the fusebox and investigate.

But the thing is, his crazy ex's crazy boyfriend threatened yesterday to kill him. This guy is bolting, not looking for the fusebox.

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