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[+] [S] 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)
  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I've often wondered if typical retail receipts contain any sensitive info which would give me reason to shred them before discarding but the worst thing on there is last four digits of whichever card I used, and the merchant address, date/time, what I bought, but nothing directly tying it to ME unless some weirdo wants to figure out how to correlate people with last 4 of card numbers, but how inanely ridiculous that would be...yet here we are apparently 🤦🏼‍♀️

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    They don't need to go dumpster diving. People leave plenty of receipts in self checkout printers or on the ground in the parking lot.

    The only catch to that is, Fetch started getting wind of people doing that, so it might tell you that you have so much time to scan the barcode of one of the products included, or the entire receipt will be invalidated. If you just bought it, you would have it handy (so, best to scan the receipt as you unload the groceries, at home). If you found the receipt in the store, you might be able to find the merchandise in time, like a little one-shot game of Supermarket Sweep. But if you found it outside the store... your chances go down a bit. And, I think, if you have too many receipts invalidated, they might just brand you a cheater and kick you off the program. But I'm not really sure.

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